Mathcounts National Championship

Tara Bahrampour:

It wasn't quite a Miss America pageant, but it had a gusto of its own. To the beat of rock music, more than 200 middle schoolers in T-shirts adorned with pi symbols or jokes about binary numbers jogged into a Crystal City hotel conference hall yesterday, waving and holding up signs identifying their home states.

The 57 teams -- from every state, plus the District, the U.S. territories and military or State Department schools around the world -- had spent the day vying for the MathCounts national championship, and they were about to find out which four-member team had won.

Madison area middle schools that participated included Hamilton (Madison), Jefferson (Madison), Eagle (Fitchburg), Badger Ridge (Verona) and Madison Country Day School (Waunakee). Mathcounts website.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at May 14, 2006 6:27 AM
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