Rosary takes third at state math contest

Posted June 03, 2013 9:06 am

Submitted by Rosary High School

Congratulations to the Rosary Math Team, which took third place at the ICTM State Math Contest (Division 1A) May 4 at the University of Illinois in Champaign. The team was also awarded the Richard Rhoad Award for Most Improved Team.

Team awards include: geometry written team (third place); algebra II written team (third place); precalculus written team (third place); freshmen/sophomore eight-person team (ninth place); junior/senior eight-person team (fourth place); freshmen/sophomore two-person team (eighth place); junior/senior two-person team (seventh place); calculator team (fourth place); junior/senior relay 1 (sixth place); and orals competition with Colleen Madlinger and Celina Italia (fifth place).

Individual awards include: Hannah Eng, algebra 1 written (seventh place); Isabelle Ylo, geometry written (ninth place); Anna Ward, algebra II written (10th place); and Colleen Madlinger, precalculus written (eighth place).

Math team coaches are Rosary teachers Bev Cange, Cynthia Nagis, Kevin Steder and Roberta Stubing.

“What a wonderful, hard working group of young ladies. It was a pleasure coaching them and seeing them grow from year to year,” said Bev Cange, mathematics department chairman. “They deserve every medal, plaque and trophy we carried home.

“It’s exciting not only to be the third-place team in the ICTM Division 1A Contest in the state of Illinois, but also to accomplish this as a school of all girls in a competition where the greater percentage of winners are males,” she continued.

The contest is sponsored by the Illinois Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Rosary offers algebra 1 and 2 and geometry (with honors levels), pre-calculus and statistics, as well as college credit classes in college algebra, plane trigonometry, and calculus with analytic geometry I and II.

Rosary High School is a Catholic, college preparatory high school for young women located at 901 N. Edgelawn Drive in Aurora, and sponsored by the Dominican Sisters of Springfield, Ill.

For more information about Rosary High School, visit www.rosaryhs.com.

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