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Lake Bluff Middle School Students Enter Math Video Challenge
Top vote-getters will have chance to present at National Competition.
Students at Lake Bluff Middle School created a video that depicted a math problem as part of the Math Counts Video Challenge.
The video, starring students Emily Cheng, Helene Gu, Tyler McFadden and Ryan McFadden, has been entered into the challenge in which a select few will be chosen to present their videos at the Math Counts National Competition.
The Daily North Shore reports the enrichment project had students chose a problem from a list of more than 200 possibilities. Voting is open through March 13.
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“Their goal was to focus on a problem about which they could write a story and then solve, explaining their solution to their audience in a simple way,” according to the DNS.
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The top 100 vote-getters will evaluated by the Math Counts judges, and from there, the videos will be narrowed down to 20. After that, a select few will receive a trip to Florida to present their videos at the Math Counts National Competition.
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