Peck’s Got GAIM

Typically held in person, the competition was held over Zoom on Saturday, April 24. Fifth-grader Jane Pagano reports, "GAIM was a great experience!”

 

Led by K-8 Mathematics Chair Jennifer Hogan and Upper School math teachers Jessica Angelo and Laura Rose, students were organized into cross-grade-level groups, with three teams composed of third through fifth graders, and three teams composed of sixth through eighth graders. Results are expected next month, which could see some Peck participants in the national rankings.

 

Said Hogan, “The teams worked really well together, and the varying grade and skill levels made the teams stronger. The girls were very supportive and worked hard to communicate with each other and bring different strategies and approaches to the problems.” 

 

The GAIM competition aims to present students with challenging and innovative math problems, contextualized in a comic book containing the stories of pioneering women from history. This year, the comics in the competition were based on the lives of four women: Italian-born Brazilian modernist architect Lina Bo Bardi, South African singer and activist Miriam “Mama Africa” Makeba, pioneer Filipina pediatrician Fe Del Mundo, and German physicist Hedwig Kohn. 

 

This cross-curricular approach rounds out the competition experience. Says fifth-grader Heidi Lüer, “I definitely learned a lot from GAIM, not just about math but also about the famous women that the questions were based on.”

 

Congratulations to our Peck mathematicians!

 

 

Team 1:

Zanna Albertyn

Hadley Baker

Heidi Lüer

Jane Pagano

 

Team 2:

Constanza Ambrogio

Bobbi Bruno

Maggie Donnelly

Ginger Malloy

 
Team 3:

Sonia Dadheech

Bella Kantar

Lydia Pester

Ashlyn Wolfe

 

 

Team 1:

Morgan Edell

Sophia Kanowitz

Scarlette Liftin

Harini Venkatesh

 

Team 2:

Quinn Abbott

Hailey Downey

Lily Kapp

Lucky Valdivieso

 

Team 3:

Audrey Bendelius

Anna Bultó

Annabelle Ouzounian 

Christina Silva