New Hyde Park-Garden City Park Union Free School District recently announced that one current student and three former students were accepted into a highly competitive mathematics program at the Institute of Creative Problem Solving for Gifted and Talented Students at SUNY Old Westbury.
The students are Alan Aphraim, a sixth-grader at Hillside Grade School; Atharva Bhagare, a former Hillside Grade School student; Sherwin Fernandes, a former New Hyde Park Road School student, and Alexander Krawczyk, a former Garden City Park School student. Bhagare, Fernandes and Krawczyk are now seventh graders at New Hyde Park Memorial High School.
Each year, more than 500 students are nominated on Long Island for 84 available spots in the mathematics program. The four students, who were recommended and applied for the program last spring, began classes in September. They will spend 60 hours in remote classes and on related outside projects. They will learn about mathematics topics such as algebra, geometry and number theory, as well as others not included in the standard courses of study, such as problem-solving applied to probability, theory of finite differences and mass point geometry. Additionally, selected applications of mathematics taken from science and engineering are presented and discussed.
Photo caption: Hillside Grade School sixth grader Alan Aphraim was accepted into the mathematics program at the Institute of Creative Problem Solving for Gifted and Talented Students at SUNY Old Westbury.
Photo courtesy of the New Hyde Park-Garden City Park Union Free School District
