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From left, Jewish People and Peretz School students Andrew Hersh, Shawn Gordon, Noam Barsheshat, Ilana Nyveen and Noah Cohen wield the math texts that helped make them winners at the recent annual Canadian National Mathematics Leagues’ national competition.
Some of the brightest young mathematical minds in Canada hail from the Jewish Peoples and Peretz School (JPPS), here in Montreal.
The school kvelled last week after a team of 14 Grade 6 students won the recent Canadian National Mathematics League’s annual competition in the elementary school level.
JPPS beat out 398 other participating schools to finish first overall in Canada.
Moreover, student Noam Barsheshat, in racking up a score of 98 per cent – 39 questions answered correctly out of 40 – received the highest score in all of Canada.
She and four of her classmates, Shawn Gordon, Noah Cohen, Ilana Nyveen, and Andrew Hersh, scored the five highest results in Quebec.
More than one million elementary and secondary students in North America participate every year in the contest, created in 1977.
The elementary school version required answering all 40 multiple choice questions within 30 minutes. The team score of any given school was tabulated by adding up its top five scores, with JPPS’s grand total 187 out of a possible 200.
The contest questions covered a range of mathematical knowledge for each grade level. Topics focus mainly on exponents, geometry, and especially logic.
Compiled by CJN Staff
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