Fifth grade Math Masters

Sarah has a 6th floor apartment in a building that does not have an elevator. There are 16 stairs between each floor and the entrance to the building is on the first floor. On Tuesday, Sarah left her apartment, went to work, came home from work to put her coat in her apartment, and then went down to the third floor to visit a friend. She went back to her apartment for the rest of the evening. How many stairs up and down did Sarah take in her apartment building on Tuesday?


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Math problems hurt your head? To this whiz kid, they're play

"I was always fascinated with recognizing patterns and playing with numbers since I can remember," says Elizabeth, who hints that a career in mathematics or linguistics might be on her horizon. "My favorite classes at Voyagers are obviously math, and it's that mathematical part of language that has me interested in linguistics so much."

Even as a toddler, she demonstrated a mathematical curiosity far beyond her years. Her mother, Laura Yaker, a Dartmouth College-trained computer scientist, recalls observing Elizabeth playing with manipulative blocks, commonly used in math education, with obvious delight at age 2.


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Educational games

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Spelling & Math

Achievement: O'Shea, 11, won the Houghton Mifflin Spelling Bee for grades four, five and six cosponsored by the Houghton Mifflin Co. and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

O'Shea outlasted about 30 of the region's best spellers at the finals April 20 at Stella Maris Parish School in Philadelphia. He also is ranked as one of the top five fifth graders in the country in the "First in Math" online competition.

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Can you solve Rubik's Cube in less than 14 seconds?

Then you should head to the U.S. Rubik's Cube Open in Chicago

"I believe anybody can solve it. Believing you have to be some kind of genius is a stereotype that came out of the '80s."

More important than smarts, he said, is a willingness to practice.


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Spelling bee champ is a math whiz too

Evan M. O'Dorney, 13, of San Ramon, Ca., accepts his trophy from Kenneth W. Lowe, president of the E.W. Scripps Company, after he won the 2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington with the word "serrefine" on Thursday, May 31, 2007.

"My favorite things to do were math and music, and with the math I really like the way the numbers fit together," he said. "And with the music I like to let out ideas by composing notes — and the spelling is just a bunch of memorization."

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