Middle School Students Engage In An Un-Bee-lievable Math Competition 

 

With a tournament-style bracket and 12 talented math students on stage, St. Margaret’s Middle School enjoyed a fast-paced, competitive Math Bee featuring students in grades 6-8 in Hurlbut Theater.

 

The MS Math Bee is part of MathCounts, a national competition program that promotes middle school mathematics in the United States, making math achievement as challenging and exciting as a school sport.

 

With a captivated audience watching, students worked quickly against one another to solve complex math problems, quickly hitting the buzzer as soon as the problem was solved. Each head-to-head matchup was best of three, so the most correct answers after three problems advanced in the competition.

 

The overall winner is David Fang grade 7, who beat grade 8 student Gloria Zhou in the finals. Grade 8 student Megan Mohler placed third.

 

Joining the top three on stage were Owen Wang, Jinbo Yao, Martin Kovachev, Neal Srivatsaa, Sophia Yang, Audrey Ma, Benny Yang, Vivian Chen, and Emily Ke.

 

A team representing St. Margaret’s will compete in the regional competition in February at UCI. From there, the top teams and top individuals progress to the State Competition in March. The four top-scoring individuals and the top team coach progress to the Raytheon Math Counts National Competition in May, in Orlando FL.

 

Congratulations to all the participants!