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Number-crunching champs: Elementary students compete at Math Mania event
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Andrew Boyd, a third-grader at Mount Vernon, cheers after correctly answering a question at Math Mania at Mount Vernon Elementary in Gainesville, on Saturday, March 3, 2018. He went on the become the third-grade champion. - photo by David Barnes
Under the fluorescent lights of the Mount Vernon Exploratory School cafeteria, students’ minds raced. They read math problems off sheets of paper, trying to solve each one with just a dry-erase marker and board in hand.