It All Adds Up for Math Students at County Tournament

Commack Middle School’s math team took second place in the Suffolk County Math Tournament on May 27, hosted by the Director of the Center for Science and Mathematics Education at SUNY Stony Brook. Riley Bode, a sixth grade student from Commack Middle School, placed first in County. Riley was the only participant with a perfect score.

The Suffolk County Elementary Math Tournament is a competition for fourth through sixth-grade students representing school districts throughout Suffolk County. Organized and directed by local elementary math specialists, this competition is supported by the Suffolk County Math Teachers’ Association. The competition challenged students to answer higher-level and multi-step math problems in both individual and team events.

Sixth grade students from Commack Middle School and fourth and fifth grade students from Mandracchia-Sawmill Intermediate School and Burr Intermediate School participated in this year’s competition. Participants were chosen based on their performance in the Math Olympiads Club (middle school) and Continental Mathematics League (grades four and five). Each school sent a team of five students per grade level.

Four Commack students, Catherine Tawadros, Michael Van Loon, Jordan Walsh, and Louis Viglietta entered a tiebreaker for the individual event. Jordan Walsh, a fifth-grade student at Burr Intermediate School placed 15th in the Individual Event.  Louis Viglietta, a sixth grader from Commack Middle School placed 9th.

Congratulations to our math teams and advisors, Roberta Harris, Fran Lettieri,Peter Jensen, Michelle Hidalgo, Patricia Tappin, Stephanie Ierano, Michelle Quinn, Marianne Dorman, Jody Mazur, Beth Cook and Lisa Mariani.

Story by Brenda Lentsch, Photo by: Roberta Harris