Redshaw Students Test Their Skills in Math League

On April 20, A.C. Redshaw School held a math league competition for fourth, fifth and sixth graders to showcase their math skills.

Students faced off two a time and were given 20 seconds to answer a math question and hit the buzzer first with the correct answer.

Emceed by math specialist Delia Homs and before a panel of judges including basic skills teachers Lynell Burgos, Luisa Ferraro and Gatana Swercheck, the fourth grade students counted money and inches, identified properties and angles, as well as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Burgos said the competition included ESL and special education students as well with great success, as some of the special education students placed in the top five winners in each grade.

Winners received pins, certificates and medals.

Math specialists from other schools in the district were invited to observe the bee in the hopes that it goes district-wide, Burgos said.

Students who did not fare well with their math skills have another chance at winning a bee, as the school's spelling bee is on May 16, and a district wide spelling bee will be held June 7, according to the school staff.