Math Team
MATH IS COOL
Grant Elementary starts this program with our currently enrolled 3rd and 4th grade students. Each year participation is based upon the number of students interested and committed to the success of the entire team.
"Math is Cool" competitions include both individual and team events. Individual events include completion of open-ended and multiple choice problem sets. Team events include open-ended problem sets, relays, pressure rounds, mental math and college bowl rounds.
Math is Cool History:
"Academics are Cool" began in the spring of 1996 when Gregg Sampson, a mathematics teacher at Lewis & Clark High School (LCHS), organized a mathematics competition for sixth grade students in the Spokane area. He and members of the LCHS Math Team organized the events, wrote the competition items and implemented the competition at LCHS. The following school year (1996-1997), the competition was expanded to grades 4-12 with grade level competitions held on six dates throughout the school year at LCHS. During the same school year, Triscia Hochstatter, a mathematics teacher at Moses Lake High School (MLHS), organized a grade four and five combined "Math is Cool" competition in Moses Lake. Subsequently, "Math is Cool" competitions were held in Seattle beginning with the 1998-1999 school year conducted by Gregg Sampson and Sean Ahern, a University of Washington student and LCHS alumnus. In 2002 Tom Tosch took over as the Seattle Regional Director. Starting with the 2005-2006 school year, Wenatchee High School will begin hosting 4-6th grade competitions.