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McKinley Elementary Math 24 team wants more
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Neighbors | Submitted.McKinley's Math 24 success this year was due to plenty of practice. Students Dominic Franceschelli (left), Troy Tison, AJ Pepperney, Noah Landry, and Kevin Rabindra sharpened their skills in after-school team practices.
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Neighbors | Submitted.McKinley's Math 24 team showed off some of the honors they have earned this season. The team includes, from left. AJ Pepperney (back), Troy Tison, Monica Kurjan, Merik Rogenski, Amelia D'Angelo, Noah Landry (front), Josie Mayle, Jenna Jacobson, Tara Burke, Kevin Rabindra, and Dominic Franceschelli.
By SARAH FOOR
McKinley Elementary recently ended another season of success in local Math 24 competitions.
The deceptively-simple game, where students use addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to make four numbers equal 24, has had fifth- and sixth-grade students at McKinley practicing hard all year.
Back in November, the McKinley Math 24 team participated in the Mahoning County competition. The school sent fifth-graders Tara Burke, Troy Tyson, Jenna Jacobson, Josie Mayle, and AJ Pepperney, as well as sixth-graders Noah Landry, Dominic Franceschelli, Marik Rogenski, Kevin Rabindra, Monica Kurjan, and Amelia D’Angelo.
Through many intense rounds, Burke, Tyson, Pepperney, Landry, Franceschelli and Rabindra qualified for the regional competition and took home tournament medals. Landry and Franceschelli landed a second-place and fourth-place finish, respectively, for all sixth-graders throughout Mahoning County.
The team then had a few months to regroup and prepare for the regional competition, held on Feb. 2 at Warren G. Harding High School. McKinley’s regional qualifiers also had impressive finishes at the competition, testing students from throughout Mahoning and Trumbull counties.
Tyson, Landry and Rabindra finished in the final 16 in the regional division and Troy Tyson advanced farther to finish in fourth-place in the tournament.
Math 24 adviser Pamela Yost said the team’s success was due to her students’ work ethic throughout the year. In fact, she said the enthusiasm for the game hasn’t waned.
“The students don’t want our Math 24 practices to stop, so I agreed to keep hosting them. As far as I know, we’re the only building continuing with the club past the competitions. It’s definitely that kind of passion that was part of our success this year,” Yost said.