Congrats to our Math Bee!
Team CF Red earned 1st place in the competition by just 4 points!
There were 21 teams, 96 individuals and 6 challenging math tests.
CF Red also had three participants place in the Top Ten individually:
Kevin Du earned 3rd place (just one point from a three-way tie for 1st.)
Grace Sliwinski placed 5th place (with the third-highest score)
Rishika Shettigar placed 9th place
CF Red also had three participants place in the Top Ten individually:
Kevin Du earned 3rd place (just one point from a three-way tie for 1st.)
Grace Sliwinski placed 5th place (with the third-highest score)
Rishika Shettigar placed 9th place
Team CF Red was the only team of the 21 that was completely virtual this year, meaning the others were in a building together so could more easily practice together in-person. Coach Kari Fernholz said, "When I learned that AEA was going to hold a virtual Math Bee this year, I was so thrilled yet concerned about how we could make it work to practice and participate. Regardless, I was determined to try to make it work. Being virtual, the kids joined my ZOOM once a week to practice, discussing and working through the variety of test areas that are part of the math bee competition. I wasn't sure how it was going to work or if it even would, with the after-class involvement in band/orchestra lessons, ELP, and family schedules. The kids were great! They worked so hard, found time to practice, and were so supportive of each other all for the same goal of enriching their math knowledge. Doing the practices virtually had its challenges, but we made it work. The Math Bee competition consists of individuals taking (5) five timed tests, each consisting of 10 story problems in five different areas: Number Sense, Expressions & Equations, Geometry, Statistics, and Ratios, Proportions and Percent. The greatest amount of time they had to complete a test was 13 minutes, the least amount was 9 minutes. The top three individual scores from each of those five tests are accumulated to make a team score going into the team test. On the team test, the participants work together to complete the test which consists of 12 questions to be completed in 13 minutes. Each correct answer on the team test is worth (3) three points. This test score is then added to the accumulated test score to determine the winner of the Math Bee Competition. Being this year's AEA Math Bee Competition was being done virtually, it meant the participants would submit each test online, concluding with the team test. The following week, all teams joined a Zoom meeting to learn the final results of the competition."
