ST. GEORGE – Dixie State College of Utah will host its annual MathCounts competition, featuring middle and junior high schools students from throughout southwestern Utah, this Friday, Feb. 3, in room 127 of DSC’s North Instructional Building (NIB), located on the corner of 900 East 100 South. The competition will begin at 8:30 a.m., and will wrap up around 1 p.m.
According to DSC Mathematics Department Chair Scott Mortensen, more than 100 students from St. George, Enterprise, Kanab and Beaver will participate in this year’s competition. The competition features individual and team testing events, which will be corrected and judged by DSC upper division math students.
For more information on the 2011 MathCounts competition, contact Sylvia Bradshaw in the DSC Mathematics Department at 435-652-7984.
Get at ’em early because Dixie State has a pretty terrible track record with their math program, so I heard. Something like a 60 to 70 percent failure rate in a their 1050 courses.