Irvington 5th Graders To Compete In Math Tourney

IRVINGTON, NY — An Irvington School District team of fifth graders will represent the region in the Statewide First in Math Tournament.

Through a grant from the New York State Education Department, Main Street School students have been working with the First in Math program to improve fact fluency, procedural fluency and computational thinking skills.

Students recently participated in the virtual qualifying round. Nicholas Bugaj, Cassidy Reichgott and Ella Soleimani secured a spot as a team in the in-person tournament which will take place May 20 at the University at Albany.

Teams consist of three students from the same school who are in the same grade. The students will be working together on grade-appropriate challenges based on games from First In Math and the 24 Game series.