Nassakeag Sixth Grader Wins Math Contest

From the Three Village Central School District: Nassakeag Elementary School sixth grader Yuming Su has been named the first-place winner and scored in the top 5% nationally in the AMC 8 Math Contest. The AMC 8 is a 25-question, 40-minute, multiple choice examination in middle school mathematics designed to promote the development of problem-solving skills. The AMC 8 provides an opportunity for students to develop positive attitudes toward analytical thinking and mathematics that can assist in future careers. Students apply classroom skills to unique problem-solving challenges in a low-stress and friendly environment.

The material covered on the AMC 8 includes topics from a typical middle school mathematics curriculum, which is impressive as Yuming is still in elementary school. Possible topics include but are not limited to counting and probability, estimation, proportional reasoning, elementary geometry, including the Pythagorean Theorem, spatial visualization, everyday applications, and reading and interpreting graphs and tables. In addition, some questions involve linear or quadratic functions and equations, coordinate geometry, and other topics traditionally covered in a beginning algebra course.

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