Spotlight on Ohlone

Math Club pulls off battle of numbers

By Jerome Nepacena, Staff writer.

Thursday, October 11, 2007 — Monitor.

“It was a very exciting event; I could tell people really had a good time.” These were the words of math club adviser and Ohlone math teacher Geoffrey Hirsch after a very competitive day of Sudoku last Friday.

According to Hirsch, Novy Tjokro was able to take an early lead, but made a few mistakes and ended up placing fourth overall in the competition. The winner of first place and the $50 grand prize ended up being Algebra 2 student Jesse Caravalho, while trigonometry student Danielle Yee placed second and Tony Wu came in third.

“Sudoku isn’t just a game for math geniuses; it’s a game anyone can be good at,” explained Hirsch, who also adivises the Math Club.

The structure for Friday’s com petition was an hour and fifteen minutes of working on the Sudoku test, with pizza and soda afterward, before the winners of the competi tion were announced. The entry fee for the event was $3.

Sudokus have recently seen a rise in popularity. A sort of crossword puzzle with numbers, the object of the nine-by-nine square puzzle is to fill in all 81 squares while ensuring numbers in the rows and columns add up to nine.

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