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Individual and team winners have been determined as a result
of the DoDDS Pacific MATHCOUNTS competition. The top individual
was from Kadena Middle School, Kadena, Okinawa.
A team of middle school Mathletes® from Yokota Middle
School, Yokota, Japan won the Pacific Area MATHCOUNTS competition.
The second place team is Seoul American
Middle School from Seoul, Korea. These two teams and the
top individual student will now advance to the Department
of Defense Education Activity
(DoDEA) State Competition, to be held on March 24, 2004.
The competition consists or three official rounds: Sprint with 30 problems, Target
with 8 problems, and Team with 10 problems. A student from Seoul American
Middle School won the Sprint Round; a student from Kadena Middle School
won the Target Round; and Yokota Middle School won the Team Round.
Celebrating its 21st Anniversary, MATHCOUNTS is a nationwide math coaching and
competition program designed to improve math skills among U.S. students. Over
six million students across the U.S. have participated in the MATHCOUNTS program.
MATHCOUNTS’ Founding Sponsors are the CNA Foundation, the National Society
of Professional Engineers and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
National Sponsors also include The Dow Chemical Company Foundation, General Motors
Foundation, Lockheed Martin, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NEC
Foundation of America, Texas Instruments
Incorporated and 3M Foundation.
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