Teams from Maple Street Magnet School for the Arts and Linden Grove Middle School recently competed in the annual Mathcounts competition.
The national middle school math competition features creative and challenging problems that cover a wide range of math concepts. In the chapter level competition, students race to solve problems in three categories:
The Sprint round - Completing 30 problems in 40 minutes with no calculators
The Target round - Students have six minutes for sets of two questions, repeated four times. Calculators are allowed
The Team round - The team’s Top 4 players answer 10 questions, working together with calculators.
Maple Street placed first in the Team round and won the chapter competition, while Linden Grove placed third in the Team round.
The four Maple Street members of the Team round will advance to the state level. They are: Thomas Shockey, Frankie Goldstein, Robert Strong-Morse, and Julien Chapman.
The Linden Grove team was coached by math teachers Grace Wiesner and Sally Wright, and Dr. Patrick Bennett, who is an assistant professor of mathematics at Western Michigan University.
The Maple Street team was coached by parent Adam Strong-Morse.
Maple Street Magnet School's 2022 Mathcounts team members are: front row, from left, David Ogunremi, Julien Chapman, Michael Bogard, and Jean-Pierre vander Westhuizen; back row, from left, Emma Sinclair, Frankie Goldstein, Thomas Shockey, Robert Strong-Morse, and coach Adam Strong-Morse.
Linden Grove Mathcounts 2022 team: back row, from left, Dr. Patrick Bennett, Alex Hanson, Austin Hale, Andrew Wright, Jayden Moore, Miranda Fiore, Elizabeth Bippley, Mya Gaddie, Jared Kwei, math teacher Grace Weisner.
Middle Row: math teacher Sally Wright, Dayton Le, Henry Applegate, Akshay Verma, Xuanyue Li, Elyn Rhodes, Jayla Joyner, and Nia Coleman.
Front: Dax Robinson
