Seventeen students from Discovery Middle School will be competing in a prestigious national math competition this weekend.
Mathcon is a popular math competition for students in grades 5-12. More than 45,000 students nationwide, from 330 schools in 42 different states take the test, but they only take the top 100 students from each grade level to compete at the national finals.
Representing Discovery at Mathcon in Chicago on April 23 will be:
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6th Grade: Eric Yun and Hunter Striegel
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7th Grade: Grace Waddell, Peter Sullivan, Ethan Yoder, Reagan Hoke, Anya Tang, Camden Kaminsky and Shubham Lahane
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8th Grade: Seunghoon Sun, Lyvia Li, Tara Devaraj, Andy Kaboski, Dustin Smith, Jeffrey Du, Rajeev Datta and Noah Lang
First Round of the competition took place at the school back in February. The Second Round taking place this weekend in Chicago will be an “on site” paper test. The MathCON test questions require ingenuity and insight, but little technical knowledge beyond grade level mathematics and includes problems of varying degree of difficulty that enables all students to be equally challenged.
