Twelve 7th-grade students represented Cook County in a recent regional math competition held in Duluth. Three of the students were from Great Expectations and nine were from School District 166. The math scholars are (L-R, front) Jamie Johnson, Abby Prom, Daphne Lacina, Jade Wilson, and Ezra Lunde. (L-R, back) Wellesley Howard Larsen, Maya McHugh, Bryn Soland, and Santina McMillan.
Twelve sleepy-eyed seventh grade students, three from Great Expectations (GES) and nine from School District 166 boarded a bus at 5:45 a.m. on February 12 to travel to Duluth together to compete in a regional Math Counts competition, and while neither team won, they had a lot of fun and learned a lot from the competition, said their volunteer coach, Jeff Kern.
Competing for ISD 166 was Jade Wilson, Daphne Lacina, Maya McHugh, Santina McMillan, Bryn Soland, Jamie Johnson, Wellesley Howard-Larsen, Abby Prom, Ezra Lunde. Representing GES were Noah Roth, Amelia Roth and Linnea Henrickson. Two other GES students, Andy Kern and Robin Henrickson, were unable to attend.
The students from Great Expectations were the first kids from a charter school to participate in the Arrowhead Regional math competition, said Pete James, director of GES and one of the chaperones.
“Both teams (and individuals) showed great commitment and energy as representatives of Cook County,” James said.
All in all 13 teams from the region participated in the one-day event that featured team and individual competitions. Kern served as volunteer coach for both GES and ISD 166 students.
Here is one sample problem the kids had to try to solve:
Five distinct odd integers have a mean of 35 and a range of 22. What is the smallest possible value of the least of these five integers?
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