So, just how much interest are you paying on that credit card and what does it mean for your monthly household expenses, exactly?
And that square footage your contractor is talking about — well, heck, you just needed the driveway resurfaced. You weren’t counting on fractions and division, and all that.
Good luck, doubling up on that recipe while you’re at it: What’s two-thirds, times two, anyway?
Nothing like those grown-up revelations about math, the subject you used to love to hate in school, Monica McCartney says.
“You never get away from math,” as she likes to say, and she should know.
McCartney is the middle school math coach for Monongalia County Schools.
It’s her job to demystify that subject, so youngsters can grow up to be comfortable adults in a world brimming with ledgers of numbers — like it or not.
Mon’s district in the meantime just came out of its 2024 Math Field Day competition, annual showcase for top-equation solvers in the county’s elementary, middle and high school columns.
The regional contest for students across north-central West Virginia is March 23 at University High School.
Mon’s winners:
Fourth grade
1st place — Dan Nguyen, North Elementary School
2nd place — Lavitra Bodas, Suncrest Elementary School
3rd place — Pierino Silveri, North Elementary School
Alternates — Lacey Gross, Mason-Dixon Elementary School; Camden Evans, Cheat Lake Elementary School
Fifth grade
1st place — Luke Wan, North Elementary School
2nd place — Xinxi Xu, North Elementary School
3rd place — Joseph Samuel, Covenant Christian School
Alternates — Wesley Paulk, Ridgedale Elementary School; Tre Tallman, Brookhaven Elementary School
Sixth grade
1st place — Riya Zinn, Suncrest Middle School
2nd place— Laura Du, Suncrest Middle School
3rd place — Anand Subramani, Suncrest Middle School
Alternates — Isaac Richards, Mountaineer Middle School; Arjun Chadha, Suncrest Middle School
Seventh grade
1st place — Gloria Hu, Suncrest Middle School
2nd place — Isabell Tabone, Suncrest Middle School
3rd place — Leo Grammer, Westwood Middle School
Alternates — Ethan Rakes, Mountaineer Middle School; Umit Avci, Suncrest Middle School
Eighth grade
1st place — Emily Liu, Suncrest Middle School
2nd place — Breanna Li, Suncrest Middle School
3rd place — Kyrian Haas, Suncrest Middle School
Alternates — Eliot Sorensen, Suncrest Middle School; Tessa Abildo, South Middle School
Ninth grade
1st place — Larry Du, Morgantown High School
2nd place — Caden Yao, Morgantown High School
3rd place — Pavan Subramani, Morgantown High School
Alternates — Maxwell Abildo, Morgantown High School; William Tapia, Morgantown High School
10th-12th grade
1st place — Lauren Shen, Morgantown High School
2nd place — Sanketh Guppi, Morgantown High School
3rd place — Austin Luo, Morgantown High School
4th place — Shankar Subramani, Morgantown High School
5th place — Grace Yan, Morgantown High School
6th — Joyce Hu, Morgantown High School
7th place — Andrew Kisner, University High School
8th place — Will DeVault, University High School
9th place — Claire Lu, Morgantown High School
10th place — Luke Puderbaugh, Morgantown High School
Alternates — Maxwell Chen, Morgantown High School; Isaiah Harvey, University High School
Other awards
Best Physical Estimation: Pierino Silveri, 4th grade, North Elementary; Nadal Cassim, 5th grade, St. Francis Central Catholic; McKay Atwood, 6th grade, South Middle; Pippa Neat, 7th grade, South Middle; Madelyn Mazzoni, 8th grade, South Middle.
Austin Luo, Grace Yan, Lauren Shen, Joyce Hu, Sanketh Guppi, all of Morgantown High, took home the 10th-12th Team Award.
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