Math skills double-down for Discovery, Rainbow students
The latest round in math competitions proved a bit of deja vu for students from Rainbow elementary and Discovery middle schools.
In January, the Madison teams captured first place in Birmingham at the Alabama School of Fine Arts contest. These students repeated their winning ways at the Davidson Center at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center on Feb. 4.
Grissom High School hosted the tournament for pre-algebra students in seventh grade through high school seniors. Both Discovery and Rainbow teams took first-place honors.
“Just for the experience, some Rainbow students decided to compete in the seventh-grade, pre-algebra category. Rainbow’s team won first place,” Julie Goldston said. Coach for both teams, Goldston teaches fifth-graders at Rainbow.
Several Rainbow students won individual trophies. Alan Grissom earned third-place honors, Aditi Limaye took fourth place and Corey Tolbert earned fifth place. Other place winners were Joe Shen, sixth, and Tony Tian, ninth.
“All students ciphered at this competition,” Goldston said. “The team’s ciphering score is added to the top four individual scores to get our team score.”
Also participating and ciphering from Rainbow were Ryan Folts, Annie Sieja, Erica Sieja, Arnav Mathur and Misa Ito.
Rainbow competed in division II, while Discovery was assigned to division I.
Like Rainbow, Discovery’s seventh-grade, pre-algebra team won first place. The six Discovery students winning individual trophies were Winston Van, first; Tyler Tolbert, fourth; Amelia Goldston, fifth; Anthony Zhu, sixth; Ada Van Der Zijp, seventh; and Jasmine Atassi, eleventh. Jake Kim and Nihar Patel also competed.
Discovery’s eighth-grade team won a fourth-place trophy … with only four participants. Students recognized in individual honors were Dan Nguyen, second; Mathew Ganatra, fourth; and Aditya Mathur, fourteenth. R.J. Sieja also participated.
“I am so proud of all of these students,” Goldston said. “I’m also grateful that they have amazingly supportive parents. They are a winning combination.”
