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Two Beacon students win Math Month poster contest

June 6, 2017

Two Beacon seventh-graders recently won the Delaware Council of Teachers of Mathematics Math Poster Contest. Seventh-graders Rileigh Wilson and Gracie Frech worked together on their winning submission that focused on hurricanes. 

This year's theme was Mathematics in Nature. The competition offers  an avenue for mathematics students to express their creativity, and to discover the usefulness and pervasiveness of mathematics. This was the second year in a row that Wilson won the contest in collaboration with a peer. 

Dr. Michael Young, Cape Henlopen supervisor of secondary education, said, "They were the winners because their poster included the theme Mathematics in Nature, it had strong math content, and it effectively highlighted hurricanes and other large storms that have impacted the Delaware beaches. Their poster was highly interactive."

Posters were featured at Wilmington University in Dover May 2-14.

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