The Great Southwestern Math Contest

The Department of Mathematical Sciences is pleased to announce the
winners of the 2007 annual version of the Great Southwestern Mathematics
Contest. They are: first place Las Cruces High School, second place Las
Cruces High School, third place Las Cruces High School, fourth place Las
Cruces High School, fifth and sixth place Mayfield School. On Wednesday,
April 4, 35 teams from five different New Mexico high schools logged
into WEB-CT and spent 2.5 hours solving challenging mathematics
problems. There was an Awards Ceremony with prizes, food and a
discussion of the contest problems for the winning teams on Thursday,
April 26 at 5:30 p.m. The ceremony began right after a special
Mathematics Awareness week lecture on Mathematics and the Mind, 4:00
p.m.-5:00 p.m. by Dr. Jim Kroger. The top placing team members each
received a copy of Scientific Notebook. Every other student on a placing
team received a book on mathematics.

The Department of Mathematical Sciences at NMSU started this contest in
Spring 2002 .For more information contact Caroline Sweezy, 646-2129 or
csweezy@nmsu.edu.