Sage Point earns second place in math competition
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Fifth-graders at Sage Point Elementary competed in in the "Math is Cool" regional competition in Wenatchee last week. Front Row, left to right: Preston Fillipi, Zander Holman, Adam Cooper, Austin Hyer, Madi Krogh, Denali Knowles, Emily Ausere, Conrad Johnson, and Heidi Cooper. Second Row, left to right: Lori Cooper, Kyle Karstetter, Mikenna Loutherback, Megan Cooper, Yasmin Shateri, Carl Hart, Noah Heaps, Carter Lybbert, Nathan Aronsohn, and Debbie Hyer. Not pictured: Brandon Wood
MOSES LAKE - Moses Lake students flexed their brains during a math competition last week.
Seventeen fifth-graders from Sage Point Elementary competed in the "Math is Cool" regional competition March 23 at Foothills Middle School in Wenatchee.
Sage Point earned second place in the team event. Austin Hyer was the school's top scoring individual and earned third place in the individual event.
The competition includes individual events requiring students to complete sets of open-ended, multiple choice and mental math problems, and team events requiring students to answer sets of open-ended and multiple choice problems and compete in relays, pressure rounds and college bowl rounds.
A team of four students is headed to the "Math is Cool" state competition Masters on May 19 in Moses Lake.
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