Students learn and earn at Mathnasium of Redmond’s Math Triathlon

Mathnasium of Redmond held its second annual Math Triathlon on April 3 at the Mathnasium Learning Center, 16564 Cleveland St. in Cleveland Square.

More than 90 students from grades 3-6 participated.

The Math Triathlon included “skip counting, magic squares and mental math.” All math problems were grade-level approrpriate and encouraged students to use conceptual methods to arrive at answers.

The top three finishers in each grade earned cash prizes of $100, $75 or $50 for first, second and third place, respectively.

Between each event, students learned fun math tricks for impressing family and friends, including dice tricks, multiplication tricks and square root calculations for the older students.

The following students placed in the contest:

• 3rd grade:

1st place, Rhea Pardeep, Rockwell Elementary School

2nd place, Jonathan Kornich, Mead Elementary School

3rd place, Jiayi Shen, Rush Elementary School

• 4th grade:

1st place, Yury Sudzilouski, Blackwell Elementary School

2nd place, Maura Keith, Mead

3rd Place, Artem Romanenko, Mead

• 5th grade:

1st place, Alex McBain, Dickinson Elementary School

2nd place, Xander Thompson, Blackwell

3rd Place, Siddhant Jain, Mead

• 6th grade:

1st place, Cameron Haworth, Rockwell

2nd place, Abhinand Sivaprasad, Odle Middle School

3rd place, Michael Zhao, Rosa Parks Elementary School

For more information about Mathnasium of Redmond, contact the center at (425) 885-MATH (6284) or visit http://remdondmath.com.