Students from Nine High Schools Compete at Math Mayhem
淫性视频 Math Mayhem winners, from left, Trey Johnson and Vivek Kolli from Oakcrest High School, Jarod Wille, Hans Derek Yu and Aidan Himley from Egg Harbor Township High School, and Nicholas Klapatch, Saad Ayub and Ebose Eigbe from Cedar Creek High School. Below: Professor Chia-Lin Wu with Math Club members, and student competitors waiting to see who won.
Galloway, N.J. - Students from Egg Harbor Township and Cedar Creek High Schools took the top awards in the seventh annual Math Mayhem tournament held at 淫性视频 on Saturday, April 14. Students from Oakcrest High School also placed in the competition.
The 92 students from nine participating high schools competed in both individual and
team written tests.
Aidan Himley from Egg Harbor Township High School placed first in the individual competition with a perfect score.
鈥榃e don鈥檛 like perfect scores and we write the tests with the intent not to get them,鈥 said Associate Professor of Mathematics Bradley Forrest. 鈥淲e had two perfect scores last year, so we wrote it even harder this year. But again we failed.鈥
Second place in the individual competition went to Hans Derek Yu from Egg Harbor Township High School. Third place was a tie between Jarod Wille from Egg Harbor Township High School and Ebose Eigbe from Cedar Creek High School.
In the team competition, Saad Ayub, Nicholas Klapatch and Ebose Eigbe from Cedar Creek took first place. Second place went to Vivek Kolli, Trey Johnson and Andy Nguyen from Oakcrest. Third place went to Hans Derek Yu, Jarod Wille and Aidan Himley from Egg Harbor Township.
The winners received certificates and gift cards.
Klapatch, who will attend 淫性视频 in the fall as a computer science major, said the test was difficult.
鈥淏ut it wasn鈥檛 impossible,鈥 he said.
鈥淚t was definitely harder than last year,鈥 Eigbe added.
鈥淏ut it made you think in ways you didn鈥檛 expect,鈥 Ayub said. 鈥淚t was more out-of-the-box thinking.鈥
The competition is sponsored by the Mathematics program at the 淫性视频 School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and the 淫性视频 Math Club. Professor of Mathematics Chia-Lin Wu is the competition director, with faculty committee members Bradley Forrest, Judith Vogel, Pam Kosick, Suzanne Nezzar, Yujin Shen and Juan Tolosa.
鈥淭his competition is a way to promote math, 淫性视频鈥檚 math programs and also to support our local high schools and the community,鈥 Wu said.
Other participating high schools were Absegami, Atlantic City, Ocean City, Southern Regional, Mainland Regional, and Middletown.
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