South Kingstown Mathlete had their first Quest Competition. It was an huge success with 75 third graders from all four elementary schools. The students were put into mixed teams allowing students from Matunuck, Peace Dale, Wakefield, and West Kingston to work together in the competition. The first four rounds of fast questions went quickly. The teams shared their responses on whiteboards to the audience of family, friends, teachers, and judges. The competition let the students show what they have been learning in math. The final round was a tie breaking round. Students had to work on extended problem solving task. The lime green team won the competition.



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Jamie Harshman and eighth grader at Sebring Middle School logged into the competition Friday at his home for five hours. In his best one-minute stretch, he answered 32 questions on his way to about 4,500 correct answers half-way through the competition.The quota of 50 million correct answers from a million students around the world was reached after 12 1/2 hours. The event actually was 48 hours long. It ended 6 a.m. Thursday with more than 182 million correct answers recorded. When a student goes onto the World Math Day Web site they are brought into a small group of other students in the world to complete a series of math problems in a two-minute period. As the students race to finish the same problems, a bar graph shows the progress of each student in the competition. The competition is for kindergartners through high schoolars to compete with other students at their own grade level. World Math Day's Web site and event was created by 3P Learning. That is an Australian company that created an online math program. Last year no one in the United States was ranked in the top 100. This year two United State students finished in the top 100 . Trophies will go to the student who correctly answered the one-millionth problem, two-millionth problem, etc




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http://www2.highlandstoday.com/content/2008/mar/06/local-students-competein-world-math-day/?news

Do snowflakes contain bacteria?

Most snow and rain forms in cold conditions high in the sky.Under most conditions, the moisture needs something to cling to in order to condense. Now the so-called nucleators turn out to be bacteria that can affect plants. In some studies 85% of the neclei's were bacteria. The most common place where the snow had bacteria was France than Montana than Yukon. Also, bacteria in the snow was also found in Antarctica. In Louisiana there was bacteria found in the rain. Scientist are trying to eliminate the bacteria but they are worried that if they do there will be less rain and snow. the bacteria is very effective in weather which is about a few degrees below freezing.

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http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/02/28/snow.bugs.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText