Wy’east Middle School students attended the 10th annual “Math Competition of the Columbia River Gorge” on March 12 at Henkle Middle School in White Salmon.
Wy’east math teacher Shayla Moline had 15 Wy’east students the regional event.
The Wy’east group earned second place overall. Wy’east student Toby Fenner placed fourth overall. Cameron Amer earned first place overall, and won the final Oral Round as well.
A total of 115 sixth- through eighth-graders on 28 teams competed from White Salmon, Bickleton, Lyle, Klickitat, Goldendale, Wishram, The Dalles, Horizon Christian School and Wy’east.
The competition included three rounds. The first round was an individual round in which students had 40 minutes to answer as many of the 30 problems as possible. No calculators were permitted.
The second round was in pairs, where participants answered four sets of problems together collaboratively.
The final round was school teams of four. The teams had 10 minutes to answer 10 questions. Calculators were only allowed in the pairs and team rounds.
The competition culminated with a bonus Oral Round. The students, ranked on their individual round scores, went head-to-head answering questions projected up on the screen. It began with the 10th ranked participant facing the ninth-ranked participant. After a student lost two, they were eliminated and the remaining student went on to challenge the next highest ranking participant. They were given 30 seconds to come up with an answer.
“Congratulations, Wy’east Mathletes,” district math specialist Jane Osborne said. “We are so proud of your effort to participate and have fun doing math n the competition.”
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