Team,
Thank you to our assistant coaches, and especially Coach Thomas for coming to the competition today to help things run smoothly.
After the sprint round, one of our team members remarked that competing against other members of our team was probably harder than competing against the field. That seemed true.
Most importantly, we were the loudest team and had the best looking uniforms.
For OJH: We had 4 of the top 8 students. We had 5 students in the Countdown Round with 1 student only a question away from making it in. We had 11 students in the top 25%. That’s crazy. Without knowing all the teams scores, I think our Team B would have scored close to 3rd, but probably 4th or 5th. For context, our Team A was 4th last year.
While the 4 people on Team A are recognized for the win, the whole team pushed and helped each other to get to that level. During the team round, our Team A got 7 correct. That was tied with 1 other school. The next closest school got 5 correct.
Qualifying a 4-person team (Max, Adrian, Xutao, Adam) team plus 2 individuals (Peter, Lucien) for state is awesome.
OJH students in the top 25%:
2nd Max, 33 pts
6th Peter, 28 pts
7th Adrian, 28 pts
8th Xutao, 28 pts
11th Lucien, 26 pts
13th Chenya, 24 pts (Chenya was 1 point away from making the Countdown Round and 2 points from qualifying for state)
20th Erica, 22 pts
21st Jonathan, 22 pts
22nd Scout, 22 pts
23rd Adam, 22 pts
28th Evey, 20 pts
Harman and Smith:
William was ranked 31th with 19 points. He was 1 point away from being in the top 25%. The median score was 15. Luther (Smith) and Maddox (Harman) scored right at the median. Along with William, Zan scored in the top half with a score of 16. Harman also scored the median during the team round. (I don’t know enough about how the team would have placed.) This is awesome for teams made up entirely of 6th graders. I’m so excited about what you guys will do in 7th grade. What’s going to happen when you’ve actually have a chance to learn the math you are being tested on?
It will take me a day or 2 to scan and send out everyone’s specific results. Sometime in March, I’ll get a copy of the actual contest and solutions.
You are all awesome and represented Oakwood well.
Take care,
Coach Ben
p.s. The victory won us access to a database with 15,500 MathCounts problems from the last 20 years. So much bonus work ….
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OJH Math Team 