Math+Mayhem

Math Mayhem By: Payton Scheinost

Mr. Johnson has been teaching his students about ratios, proportions, and percentages. Three ways to express a ratio is 3 to 4, 3:4, or 3/4. Say you wanted to find 30% of 60 you would do 60 times .30. If you wanted to find a 45% increase you would do 60 times 1.45. Another way to find a percent is a proportion. In a proportion you cross multiply and divide but there has to be a variable if you want to find a percent.

The annual AEA 13 Math Day was held on march 19.Representatives from all but a few schools in southweastern Iowa,including Mr. johnsons 6th grade challenge center class, attended the math bee at Iowa Western Community College in Council Bluffs.

A Hoover student, Joey Helm, said that "It was exhilerating to have the chance to show my full potential against other sixth graders but the challenging part was the tests that we took." They took test on number sense, estimation patterns, functions geometry, measurement, statistics, probability, ratios, proportions and percentages. Three students on Hoover Elementary Team A tied for ninth place and Team A got second place on the team test. As a reward the team got a trophy and each one of them got a medal. Afterwards they had there pictures taken and they and it was posted on the cbcsd website.

We have our hopes high on seeing hoover going to state once again next year.