Westport’s Middle School Traveling Math Team is tops in Fairfield County.
With 102 points (cumulative for the year) the team aced its opponents to take the top position in the Fairfield County Math League for the current school year.
In an 85-point tie for first place with Ridgefield last month, the Westport students blew away the opposition in Tuesday’s meet in New Canaan, winning by six points overall.
Coleytown Middle School math teacher Christina Zadravec coaches the team for both Coleytown and Bedford Middle School) students.
The team meets after school on Tuesdays from October to April and competes with 10 other schools in the League, including schools in Ridgefield, Darien New Canaan and Fairfield. There are usually five or six meets each year.
At every meet there are six questions for which six members from each team compete at a time (two from each grade level), garnering one point for each correct solution. Therefore at each meet a team could earn up to 36 points. Points aggregate throughout the year.
The voluntary after-school activity is open to all students in grades six through eight. Currently there are nine students from CMS and one from BMS. Team members include: sixth graders Anna Fuertes, David Gaines, and Josh Litvinoff (BMS); seventh graders Josh Greenberg, Yuri Lenskiy, and Rachel Myers, and eighth graders Greg Davis, Matt Greenberg, Becca Loeser, and Alan Southworth.
