ELLISVILLE – Jones College’s Math department along with the Mississippi Council of Teachers of Mathematics recently sponsored the district level MCTM Math Contest for Jr. High School students. Twenty-eight students from seven Pine Belt area schools spent the morning working out various math problems to earn a spot at the state competition. The following winners of the regional competition will meet at the Mississippi School for Math and Science in Columbus, on April 6, to compete on a state level.
Leakesville seventh grader, Isabella Dobbins took first place with Seminary’s Tyson Breazeale earning second-place honors. Eighth-grader, Cameron Taylor of Northeast Jones won first place and Piper James from Leakesville achieved second place. All of the participants received a certificate with eighth graders also receiving a calculator from Texas Instruments.