{"id":93652,"date":"2019-06-06T17:05:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T23:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/kemper-students-win-national-math-awards\/"},"modified":"2019-06-06T17:05:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T23:05:57","slug":"kemper-students-win-national-math-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/kemper-students-win-national-math-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Kemper students win national math awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=6db1e66a-b95b-48b8-94f6-fc885e178274&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1333\" height=\"785\" alt=\"Eight Kemper Elementary students were recognized for mathematical excellence through a national competition.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Eight Kemper Elementary students were recognized for mathematical excellence through a national competition.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Erika Alvero\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>This year, eight Kemper Elementary students won national awards for mathematical excellence through the Math Olympiad program.<\/p>\n<p>The program involves a series of written challenges administered throughout the school year. This was the 40th year of the competition, which started as a way to spark kids\u2019 interest in mathematics and problem solving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was just really proud that I was even in a final,\u201d said Joshua Wilkerson, one of the fifth-graders recognized. \u201cI just didn\u2019t think I was going to be in it at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-two Kemper students participated in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moems.org\/program.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Math Olympiad<\/a>, joining nearly 160,000 students around the world who also took part.<\/p>\n<p>Participating students competed in five monthly contests from November through March. Each contest included five problems, and students were given 30 minutes to solve them.<\/p>\n<p>The questions forced students to consider difficult problems and think creatively, said Melanie Cook, a Kemper teacher who coached the students and led practice sessions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was usually five questions,\u201d said Emilio Duran, another student who won an award. \u201cAnd usually the last two were the hardest, and the first one was usually the easiest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The eight students won national awards for excellence in their division for grades 4-6: Jonathan Sandner performed in the top 10%; Emilio Duran, Veronica Ethington, and Josh Yarbrough in the top 20%; Cory Carver in the top 30%; Jaris McDonald and Joshua Wilkerson in the top 40%; and Dimitri Webber in the top 50%.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:ealvero@the-journal.com\">ealvero@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>fifth-graders recognized for excellence in Math Olympiad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[21,155,689],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-93652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-cortez","tag-education","tag-kemper-elementary"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93652"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=93652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}