ELLISVILLE – Jones College’s Math department along with the Mississippi Council of Teachers of Mathematics recently sponsored the district level MCTM Math Contest for Jr. High School students. Thirty-six students from nine Pine Belt area schools spent the morning working out various math problems to earn a spot at the state competition. The following winners of the regional competition will meet at the Mississippi School for Math and Science in Columbus, on April 12, to compete on a state level.
Raleigh seventh grader Jaylon Hosey took first place with Northeast Jones’ Presten Graham earning second-place honors. Eighth-grader Jackson Harper from Stringer won first place and Tyson Breazeale from Seminary achieved second place. All of the participants received a certificate and the top two finishers in each grade from each school received a calculator from Texas Instruments.
