Another strong showing for Gordon math

Congratulations to Gordon’s MathCounts team, who came in third in the state competition earlier this month. Gordon has placed in the top three for nine out of the past ten years.

Gordon has fielded a MathCounts team every year since 2004. Sixth, seventh and eighth graders qualify for the team through a challenging written test given to hundreds of Rhode Island students every January.

Gordon's teams have historically stood out at the competition by having a strong gender balance, and this year's team was no exception.

In 2012, Gordon implemented a new math curriculum, Math in Focus, and hired Eric Kravitz as the schoolwide math specialist. 

Since 2015, Gordon’s performance has been as follows:

2015  Third place for team, third and fifth place individual
2016  First place for team, first place individual
2017  Third place for team, second place individual
2018  First place for team, first and third place individual
2019  First place for team, first and fifth place individual
2020  First place for team, first and fifth place individual
2022  Second place for team, fourth place individual
2023  Second place for team, fourth place individual
2024  Fifth place for team, ninth place individual
2025  Third place for team, three students tying for twenty-second place individual

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