{"id":383,"date":"2013-04-08T08:05:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T08:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/?p=383"},"modified":"2013-04-05T18:51:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T18:51:45","slug":"windsor-woods-wildcats-math-wizards-in-world-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/windsor-woods-wildcats-math-wizards-in-world-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Windsor Woods Wildcats math wizards in world competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_2565-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-384\" alt=\"IMG_2565 (2)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_2565-2-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_2565-2-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_2565-2.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Windsor Woods Elementary School Wildcats may need to change their school mascot to the Wizards \u2014 math wizards that is!<\/p>\n<p>Students in kindergarten\u00a0through the\u00a0fifth-grade\u00a0recently put their math skills to the test in an international competition to celebrate World Math Day 2013. <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sonya Benshoff, fourth-grade teacher and self-proclaimed &#8220;math nerd,&#8221; spearheaded, organized and facilitated the event for the\u00a0fifth year in a row.<\/p>\n<p>While students were facing math competition from around the world, several evening activities also were offered to parents to demonstrate ways to help children increase their math skills. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As a school, the Wildcats answered 57,178 questions during the 48-hour event. The number of questions answered worldwide totaled 292,354,618. To sum it up, it was a great day in Wildcat country!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Windsor Woods Elementary School Wildcats may need to change their school mascot to the Wizards \u2014 math wizards that is! Students in kindergarten\u00a0through the\u00a0fifth-grade\u00a0recently put their math skills to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}