State Math Bee

Today was the annual State Math Bee held by the Central Rivers AEA.  The 6th Grade team at West Elementary qualified a couple weeks ago by placing 5th in the Eastern Regional.  The kids worked hard in between testing days and it paid off.

The team of Talan, AJ, Ethan and Brady came away with the bronze medals at the state competition.  These students were tested over the topics found in the Iowa Core; Number Systems, Expressions and Equations, Geometry, Statistics and Probability, Ratios and Proportions.  We are very proud of them here at West Elementary for their third place finish!

Spring Noetic Class Winners

Math students from 2nd grade through 6th grade have spent a lot of time on the Noetic Problem Solving program lately.  The program is a nation-wide program that provides challenging problems to over 750 schools throughout 47 states.  The problems are not your ordinary math problems, they focus more on real life situations, logic, and general problem solving.  With these problems intertwined in the Iowa Core, it provides students things they are learning in the classroom while adding higher order thinking skills.  It is very challenging for students, many mistakes are made and with that comes learning from each other and themselves for future problems.  Elizabeth, Carter, Zach, Cael and Talan were all class winners this year.  Talan and Zach also earned National Honor Roll status, meaning that their score was in the top 10% of all the 34,000+ students who took the Noetic tests this spring.  

Congrats to all the students who persevered through the tough problems, the errors, mistakes and finally the new learning to make themselves all better math students!