On Saturday, January 25, over 60 area 3rd-8th grade students met at Regina High School for the Elementary and Junior High Great Plains Math League competition. Twelve 5th-8th grade students represented Mid Prairie Middle School at the event.
The competition was split into four individual testing rounds and one team round. In the number sense round, students used mental math to complete as many of the 80 questions possible in ten minutes. The sprint round consisted of 30 multiple choice problems that students had to solve within 40 minutes and without the use of a calculator. In the last individual round, the target round, students were given four pairs of word problems and six minutes per pair. Finally teams of 1-4 students put their heads together to solve 10 word problems in 20 minutes for the team round.
Mid Prairie brought home the School Sweepstakes Plaque for getting first place in the small school elementary division. Landon Humble was awarded two medals for finishing first out of all small school 6th graders in both the number sense and sprint rounds. Owen Zirkelbach was awarded a medal for first place in the target round for all small school 6th graders. Jack Sorrell was awarded a medal for first place in the sprint round for all small school 5th graders and qualified for the state level. There will be one more qualifying round before the state level.
