Math Olympiad challenges younger Harrington students

The Math Olympiad teams competed Saturday, May 7, 2011. Every year the Harrington School District sends teams to Eastern Washington University to compete in a math competition called Math Olympiad. Robbee Kiefer, Alex Bruce, Megan Shafer, and Dalton Wilkie made up our fourth/fifth-grade team scoring as the top fifth-grade team, earning an "Excellent" ribbon in the overall competition. They earned one “Excellent” in Number Sense, two “Very Goods” in Problem Solving and Geometric Sense and three “Goods” in Measurement, Algebraic Sense and Probability and Statistics on their score card.

The sixth...