Anthony Reed of Mountainview Elementary concentrates on finding the right president for the question asked during the Mr. Presidents game Wednesday at the Monongalia County Academic Games at Mylan Park.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Scores of Monongalia County elementary students gathered at Mylan Park Thursday, March 23, for the 25th annual Academic Games.
Robin Marcus, coordinator of the event, said students in grades 3-5 engaged in equation exercises, in which they have to develop mathematical goals and equations to reach them all from pre-shaken cubes.
Another cube exercise centered on letters and punctuation rather than numbers. In this game, called Linguishtiks, the players must form words in a manner similar to Scrabble…