Barrington High School student Daniel Sheinberg took top honors at this year's Who Wants to be a Mathematician competition, held at Providence College on Wednesday, March 14.
He also took …
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Barrington High School student Daniel Sheinberg took top honors at this year's Who Wants to be a Mathematician competition, held at Providence College on Wednesday, March 14.
He also took home $3,000 in prize money and a brand new graphing calculator.
Daniel and nine other students from Blackstone Academy, Classical High School, Cumberland High School, East Greenwich High School, Moses Brown School, Portsmouth High School, St. Andrew's School, Wheeler, and Woonsocket High School were selected for the competition based on their scores on a qualifying test. The test featured questions on algebra, trigonometry, probability and math history.
On Wednesday, March 14, the students met at Providence College's Slavin Center for the Who Wants to be a Mathematician competition. There were two rounds, with five students participating in each heat of the first round.
The two winners of the first round each received $500, and then squared off for round two. Daniel won both the first round and second, and was presented with one question to win the grand prize question, which was worth $2,000.
Here's the grand prize question: "Three fair, eight-sided dice are rolled and only odd numbers occur on the top faces. What is the probability that those numbers are the lengths of three sides of a triangle?"
Daniel had five choices to pick from, and, in the end, selected the correct answer. (It was choice "d", 17/32.)
Contest officials presented Daniel with his prizes — a check for $3,000 and a new TI-Inspire graphing calculator.
Daniel is the first Barrington High School student to win the grand prize since Stephen Lamontagne did so in 2011.