
Last month, Marin Country won first, Mill Valley took second, and Kent placed third. Marin Country took first again in January, while Mill Valley Middle School took second and Hall Middle came in third.Īt the eighth-grade level, Miller Creek and Mill Valley tied for first in November, San Jose Middle took second, and Hall and Sinaloa Middle School tied for third. In the team competition in November, at the seventh-grade level, Marin Country Day School placed first, Kent Middle School came in second, and Miller Creek Middle School took third. At the second round, in January, eighth-grader Lauren Nicolaisen of San Jose Middle, and three students from Marin Country Day School - eighth-grader Gage Hills and seventh-graders Greg Tobkin and Matt Spevak - achieved the same feat. In the first round, in November, Sharon Torigoe, an eighth-grader at Hall Middle School, got a certificate for a perfect score. Wednesday at San Jose Middle School in Novato. The third round of competition will be held at 4 p.m. Then grade-level teams are given 10 minutes to solve another five problems. The format is straightforward: Each student solves five problems, with a two-minute time limit for each problem. More than 150 students - about a 50 percent increase over last year - are competing in this year's contests, which are open to both public and private middle schools in the county (as well as K-8 schools). In how many ways can you make $10 using only quarters and dimes? If the sum of the 3 numbers is 79, what is the largest of the three numbers? The difference of the lower two numbers is 12, and the difference of the higher two is 4.

Three numbers are arranged in order from smallest to largest.
