The event will be a K-5 division competion slated for this Friday, Feb. 19, at Chacha Oceanview Junior High School. The competition is set to start at 10 a.m. but the proctor meeting will start by 9:30 a.m.
The CNMI Math Court competition is a series of meets that occur throughout the school year.
The competition began in 2005 in order to promote mathematics in the CNMI. The elementary and middle school competitions were centered on the Public School System mathematics benchmarks. In the high school division, the focus had been on mental math and topics taken from several textbooks.
Since then, the competition has gone through several changes in terms of the focus and style of the questions. In its current form, the elementary test in the K-2 division is primarily oral with the students writing their answers on a piece of paper.
In the 3-5 division, middle school division, and high school division, the test format changes dramatically as the students are required to read the questions themselves and answer them within a specified time frame.
