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Party Celebrated Slackwood Student's Contest Win
A party held earlier this month at Slackwood Elementary School celebrated third-grader Abby Crutchley's winning submission in a national art contest sponsored by McGraw-Hill.
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McGraw-Hill Education and Slackwood School celebrated Abigail (Abby) Crutchley's winning submission to "This is McGraw-Hill My Math" student art contest at a party thrown by McGraw-Hill for Abby's third-grade class on Feb. 16. Unveiled at the party was the publisher's new math series cover with Abby's winning artwork prominently displayed.
As three McGraw-Hill representatives (Michael D. Healy, Kate Rodgers, and Mary Molyneaux-Leahy) entered Joanne Cordingley’s classroom (Abby’s class) with balloons, cake, and poster of new math book cover in hand, the surprised third-graders were using calculators in a math lesson led by math teacher George Regan. Texas Instruments supplied the calculators to the class as part of the almost $15,000 in fun and functional prizes earned by Abby’s winning entry.
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Additional contest sponsors include Promethean, netTrekker, Psychological Software Solutions, Intel, eInstruction, VWR Education/Science Kit, The Math Forum @ Drexel and Crayola.
The national art contest recognized 12 winners out of more than 2,400 submissions this past December. Designed to inspire students’ passion for math and other science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields, the contest challenged students to illustrate what math means to them through sculpture, drawing, painting and photography.
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In addition to being featured prominently in the new McGraw-Hill My Math course materials, Abby’s artwork, along with the other contest winners’ creations, will be displayed at the opening of the Museum of Mathematics in New York City. View all the winning artwork in an online gallery at http://mymath.shycast.com/.
“We are impressed by the creativity shown by all the winners of ‘This is McGraw-Hill My Math’ contest,” said Lisa O’Masta, vice president, McGraw-Hill School Education. “We are thrilled to recognize the students, teachers and schools that showcased the importance of math in their everyday lives through this contest.”
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