Hartshorn Honors Math Olympiad Participants

Hartshorn Elementary School honored its fourth and fifth grade Math Olympiad participants last Friday. Teacher and club sponsor Michele Orsini and Principal Ron Castaldo presented each student with a certificate of participation and awards the highest-scoring students in the group.

The Math Olympiad is a national math competition whose goal is to stimulate enthusiasm and a love for mathematics while introducing math concepts and strategies for problem-solving. Hartshorn's participants were recommended by their teachers.  They met twice a month from November through March to work on practice problems and the monthly contests of five questions worth one point each. Each correct answer earns a student one point with a maximum of 25 for the year.

According to Orsini, "A highlight of the program is having the opportunity to share problem-solving strategies and to understand that there are often many ways to attack a problem and  arrive at a correct answer."