Results: NC State Math Contest

[Boyd Blackburn]

Smith Community,

The Smith Math Team's biggest competition of the year, MathCounts, is over for the year - we finished 2nd in the state.  Now we're working on the NC State Mathematics Contest...

On Thursday, March 17...12 Smith students headed to Wake Tech CC in Raleigh and 12 Smith students headed to NC A&T in Greensboro.  The students compete in different divisions depending on what math class they are taking this year.  The main prize this day was to qualify for the next month's Finals.

At Wake Tech, the Smith teams came in 

2nd place for Math 1

1st place for Math 2

1st place for Math 3

At NC A& T, the Smith teams came in

2nd place for Math 1

2nd place for Math 2

2nd place for Math 3

The Smith teams were led by these 16 individuals who qualified for the State Finals:

Kaylene Eun

Richard Yuan

Ankita Nandi

Jasmine Ji

Adriana Kim

Daniel Cheng

Andy Wang

Jack Xu

Ben Jia

Neo Zhu

Jonathan Xu

Andrew Zhen

Andy J. Wang

Adrian Thananopavarn

Matt Kaminsky

Aaron deJong

This was a great showing, even by Smith standards...Congratulations to these bright and hard-working mathletes!

Smith has 6 more Math 2 students heading to Hickory to try to qualify and 2 more Math 3 students heading to Winston Salem.

Checking in on...GIRL POWER!  The Top 3 individuals in the Comprehensive division (which is the highest level) were all girls!  Plus, a crew of 12 Smith 7th-grade girls are showing up on Saturday mornings to do some fun math with the Chapel Hill Math Circle on UNC's campus.  Check it out...

http://chapelhillmathcircle.org/

- Dr. B

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Boyd Blackburn

LEAP Math Teacher and MathCounts Coach

Smith Middle School

Chapel Hill, NC

919-918-2145 x21802

bblac...@chccs.k12.nc.us

 

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