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Show Local mathematicians take state honors Bountiful Junior High's Math-counts Math-counts team placed fifth in the state at the recent Mathcounts contest held at the University of Utah March Mar-ch 24. The team consisted of Tonya Talbot, Peter Jones, David Crowley and Tom Anderson. Andrew Morrill Mor-rill served as the coach and advisor for the team. The annual contest is sponsored by the National Society of Professional Profes-sional Engineers to encourage math excellence in school and to promote interest in careers involving math. Students on the team have practiced prac-ticed an average of four hours per week after school since the beginning beginn-ing of the school year. This is the first time that a team from Bountiful Junior has seriously competed in the contest. They were one of two teams from Davis District who qualified to attend state competition. |