{"id":5625,"date":"2025-02-24T13:04:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T19:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/?p=5625"},"modified":"2025-02-24T13:04:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T19:04:39","slug":"jones-college-hosts-mctm-jr-h-s-math-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/news\/jones-college-hosts-mctm-jr-h-s-math-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Â鶹ֱ²¥ hosts MCTM Jr. H.S. Math Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ELLISVILLE &#8211; Â鶹ֱ²¥\u2019s Math department along with the Mississippi Council of Teachers of Mathematics recently sponsored the district level MCTM Math Contest for Jr. High School students. Thirty-six students from nine Pine Belt area schools spent the morning working out various math problems to earn a spot at the state competition. The following winners of the regional competition will meet at the Mississippi School for Math and Science in Columbus, on April 12, to compete on a state level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Raleigh seventh grader Jaylon Hosey took first place with Northeast Jones\u2019 Presten Graham earning second-place honors. Eighth-grader Jackson Harper from Stringer won first place and Tyson Breazeale from Seminary achieved second place. All of the participants received a certificate and the top two finishers in each grade from each school received a calculator from Texas Instruments.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"713\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/winners-1024x713.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/winners-1024x713.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/winners-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/winners-768x535.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/winners-1536x1070.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/winners-2048x1426.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u00a0Â鶹ֱ²¥ recently sponsored the Mississippi Council of Teachers of Mathematics district Jr. High School Math contest.\u00a0 Winners are pictured left to right with 7<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0grader Presten Graham of Northeast Jones placing 2<sup>nd<\/sup> and Raleigh\u2019s Jaylon Hosey taking the top spot. First place honors amongst the 8<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0grade competitors went to Jackson Harper of Stringer with Tyson Breazeale from Seminary earning 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0place.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELLISVILLE &#8211; Â鶹ֱ²¥\u2019s Math department along with the Mississippi Council of Teachers of Mathematics recently sponsored the district level MCTM Math Contest for Jr. High School students. Thirty-six students from nine Pine Belt area schools spent the morning working out various math problems to earn a spot at the state competition. The following winners &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/news\/jones-college-hosts-mctm-jr-h-s-math-competition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Â鶹ֱ²¥ hosts MCTM Jr. H.S. Math Competition&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5629,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625\/revisions\/5629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}