Brains and Beauty

The Iron County School District does an annual "Calculator Contest" for the 4th graders. They have special calculators that feed math problems to the user. They don't use the calculator to figure out the problem, they just simply input the answer. The calculator then keeps track of how many they get correct. The contest tests on speed and accuracy. It works like this: they always do 25 problems, but in the 1st round they get 3 minutes, 2nd round-2 mins. 3rd round-1 min and 4th round-30 seconds. If a student gets below 92% in the first 3 rounds, they are disqualified. On the 3rd round, they go by the highest percentage to find a winner. Accuracy is the most important, but in case of a tie they go to speed as the tiebreaker. The top 3 from each class competed in the school contest. The top 3 winners of the school contest go on to represent Three Peaks in the district competition. The three girls in the center are from Shelby's class. Shelby is in the blue shirt (in case you didn't know HA!)

They're all pretty stoked to be going to the district contest next week!! I'll let everyone know how she does!