Village student promoted to the final round in math competition

Rockville Centre resident Marianna Paone, an eighth grader at the Waldorf School of Garden City, will be going to the final round of the Al Kalfus Long Island Math Fair.

The daughter of Gianfranco and Virginia Paone was among 1,200 students who made presentations at the preliminary round of the fair held on March 5 at Hofstra University. Rachel Bossuk, Charlotte Magee, and Sam Resnick, fellow eighth grade students at Waldorf, were also promoted to the final round.

The Al Kalfus Long Island Math Fair is an annual competition sponsored by the Nassau and Suffolk County Math Teachers’ Association and the New York Metropolitan Section of the Mathematical Association of America. The competition invites nearly 1,200 students in grades 7 through 12 to conduct independent research on a math topic that interests them. Once a paper is accepted by the review committee, the students make a 15-minute preliminary round presentation to the judges. The students who make a successful presentation are invited to participate in the final round – which will take place on April 30.