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8.0 years ago by Zac Stevenson

Math Team!

School Notes: Math League Competitions Begin

  • From left, Lebanon High School seniors Mary Sedaro, Hassan Altaf, and Bryan White convene to solve a complicated math problem during a combined meeting of the Lebanon intermediate and senior Math League teams at Lebanon High School in Lebanon, N.H., on November 4, 2015. The Twin State Math League has been continuously running since the 1960's. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap) <p><i>Copyright © Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.</i></p>

    From left, Lebanon High School seniors Mary Sedaro, Hassan Altaf, and Bryan White convene to solve a complicated math problem during a combined meeting of the Lebanon intermediate and senior Math League teams at Lebanon High School in Lebanon, N.H., on November 4, 2015. The Twin State Math League has been continuously running since the 1960's. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap)

    Sue Seamans, coach of the Lebanon senior math team presents a problem to the Lebanon intermediate and senior math teams during a combined practice at Lebanon High School in Lebanon, N.H., on November 4, 2015. Seamans joined the Twin State Math League at Mascoma High School as a student in the 1960's, and has been the leader of the Lebanon senior math team since 1974. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap) <p><i>Copyright © Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.</i></p>

  • Sue Seamans, coach of the Lebanon senior math team presents a problem to the Lebanon intermediate and senior math teams during a combined practice at Lebanon High School in Lebanon, N.H., on November 4, 2015. Seamans joined the Twin State Math League at Mascoma High School as a student in the 1960's, and has been the leader of the Lebanon senior math team since 1974. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap)                                                                                                                                       By David Corriveau


Upper Valley students began matching numerical wits with the formation of the Twin State Math League some five decades ago — just in time for a math devotee named Sue Seamans.

“When I was a student at Mascoma Valley Regional High School in the ’60s, I competed on the math team,” Seamans recalled last week. “Then, when I began teaching at Lebanon High School in 1974, I became the senior math team coach and have been coaching ever since.”

Among Seamans’ new recruits to the Lebanon NumeRaiders this year is junior Marina Liot, a pre-calculus honors student who competes for the Lebanon White team in the league’s Senior Division. Last week she described as “challenging” both the team practices and the league’s first meet of the new school year on Oct. 29 at Newport Middle/Senior High School.

“I was very nervous for the first competition,” Liot recalled. “I learned that you have 10 minutes to complete each three-qustion test for each category. A lot of being successful in these competitions has to do with time management, and applying a game plan or a strategy to solve the problem.”

In addition to Lebanon High and Lebanon Middle School, league members include Hanover, Seamans’ Mascoma alma mater and neighboring Indian River School, Newport’s middle school and high school, Kimball Union Academy, Fall Mountain Regional High School, Windsor High School, Woodstock Union High School and seventh- and eighth-graders at Plainfield School, Weathersfield School, Charlestown Middle School and Vilas Middle School in Alstead, N.H.

At the season-opening meet, Seamans said, 15 teams of seventh- and eighth-graders came from 11 schools, 11 Intermediate-Division freshmen and sophomores from nine schools competed and 11 squads of juniors and seniors from nine schools locked horns.

In the senior division, Seamans’ Lebanon Maroon team finished second to Hanover A, with Bryan White finishing a close second to Windsor’s Tristen McMullen in the individual scoring.

Hanover also won the team competition in the intermediate division, edging coach Suzanne Lee’s Lebanon Maroon squad by nine points behind a perfect score of 30 by sophomore Sarah Dunbar. That score tied Dunbar for first place in individual competition with Lebanon Maroon’s Kainat Altaf.

And in the junior division, eighth-graders Andrew Landry and Peter Ogrinc led Lebanon Middle School’s Maroon team to the top spot over the runner-up Plainfield Blackhawks with perfect scores of 30, tying them with Plainfield eighth-grader Nathan Magari for individual honors.

The Twin State Math League’s next three meets are scheduled for Dec. 15 at Fall Mountain, Feb. 4 at Bellows Falls and March 29 at Windsor. Math teams at area schools not already in the league are welcome to join by emailing league President Jarrod Shaheen at jarrod.shaheen@dresden.us . Lebanon High juniors and seniors interested in joining the NumeRaiders senior team should contact Sue Seamans.

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