Wow was I wrong. I thought perhaps a few hundred Minnesota youngsters participated in the state’s Math League, and maybe 15-20 high schools. Way off.
Tom Young, a 30-plus-year Minnesota public school educator and now the league’s executive director, told me Jan. 21 that about 2,600 Minnesota students, and 155 schools, district, charter, private and parochial, participate. They’re from across the state, from International Falls in the north to Fairmont in the south.
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