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Math Challenge Program

Math Challenge program is a free school-wide math enrichment program for elementary students consisting of series of challenging and interesting math problems.

The purpose of this program is to entice, engage and challenge students to solve interesting math problems while along the way, strengthen their math fundamentals, critical thinking, problem solving skills and improve confidence in math.  Students can also involve their families to help and engage in a fun discussion to solve math problems. 

The program provides 15 sets of challenges throughout the school year; each set is published every other week starting in late October and ending in May. These math challenges covers problem solving strategies such as draw a picture or model, make an organized list, look for a pattern, working backward, and guess and check. Each challenge presents 10 to 18 problems ordered by level of difficulties which enables students from various grades to participate.

Click the link below to start exploring the Math Challenge Program:

http://www.mathinaction.org/west-mercer.html