Silicon Valley Flex Academy’s Middle School MathCounts school team won the annual Monterey Bay regional competition over the weekend, earning a ticket to the state championships at Stanford University.
The team of Brandon Hoppa, Eliesse Kwok, Sarah Kashani and Caleb Frahm participated in the competition at San Benancio Middle School in Salinas and will compete March 22 in Palo Alto.
Hoppa placed first in the Countdown Round and was the top individual competitor, while his teammate, Kwok, took fourth place in the Countdown Round. Nia Lyn, another Silicon Valley Flex Academy Middle School student, competed as an individual.
The MathCounts competition series engages students in “bee-style” contests against one another. The three-hour competitions consist of four parts:
-Sprint (30 questions in 40 minutes)
-Target (eight questions distributed two at a time)
-Team (10 problems in 20 minutes)
-Countdown Rounds (a head-to-head, oral round).
MathCounts, a nonprofit organization sponsored by the American Institute of Mathematics, strives to engage middle school students of all abilities and interest levels in fun, challenging math programs in order to expand their academic and professional opportunities.
