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***image1***Twelve children sit watching images flickering across a projector screen. They are totally intrigued by what they see. The program elicits clapping, cheers and an injection from one young boy, “he needs to come to our school.”
These children are not watching the latest edition of “American Idol.” They are students of Landstuhl Middle School and they are watching kids just like them – the participants of the MathCounts 2008 National Competition in Denver, Colo.
In Kara Stolee-Kiefer’s class, math is cool.
MathCounts is a non-profit after-school program that promotes mathematic excellence. Monthly math challenges lead up to the final test, which determines each school’s status.
LEMS is the only Department of Defense Dependents School to receive Gold status this year. The MathCounts program thrives on private donations and corporate sponsors, such as Lockheed Martin and GM.
Out of the 270 students in sixth through eighth grade at LEMS, 42 students chose to give their time and energy to this class.
One student, Jessica McAdam, gives this advice to other kids who want to be better at math: “Ask a lot of questions. I take notes and I study with a group of people. Some of them understand more and some understand less, but we all help each other and it makes the group better,” she said.
Congratulations to LEMS MathCounts students on their Gold status.
For more information on the MathCounts program, visit www.mathcounts.org.
Math Challenge
Kena made chocolate chip cookies using a bag of 200 chocolate chips. Every chocolate chip went into a cookie. Every cookie had exactly 8 to 10 chocolate chips, and Kena made exactly 24 cookies. How many of her cookies had 10 chocolate chips?
14-year-old Woody Zhao had the answer in two minutes.
