Eastport Elementary School fifth graders Jack Anderson, Joseph McErlean and Eric Ramirez were recently named regional winners in the First in Math Virtual Regional Tournament, sponsored by the New York State Education Department.
By winning the regional contest, the students received a trophy, a plaque for the school building and a $1,000 award for the school. The team of three will now compete in Albany on June 1 in the upcoming New York State Elementary Mathematics Tournament.
The Virtual Regional Contest focused on the 24Game series featured in the First in Math online program Skill Sets and which tested students on fact fluency, automaticity, problem-solving, procedural fluency and other critical math skills.
Only 15 students (five teams of three) from Suffolk County and 150 students statewide advanced to the state championship. In the state competition, students will use game cards and compete in a group setting, to demonstrate through modeling their conceptual understanding of math concepts.
Jack, Joseph and Eric are from both Cindy Brennan’s and Ron Oldenborg’s classes and have already begun training for the math games required for the state competition. Mr. Oldenborg, their coach, will escort the students to Albany.
“We are really proud of these students’ efforts all year and are wishing them the best of luck in the state competition,” Eastport Elementary Principal Thomas Fabian said.