Penn Christian Academy hosted 174 students from eight Christian schools for the annual Math Olympics on April 12.

PENN TWP — They came from Erie and they came from nearer towns. Pencils in their hands and matching number Ninja T-shirts on some of their backs, they converged on Penn Christian Academy, 199 Airport Road.

Penn Christian was hosting, as it has for the past 10 years, the annual Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) Math Olympics.

One hundred and seventy-four students in grades three through six from eight schools gathered in the lunchroom ready for the contests of computation and reasoning skills to begin on April 12.

The mathletes face an hour and 15 minutes of one of the most grueling competitions imaginable: a series of math problems. And to really make it excruciating, some are word problems; the dreaded, “If I'm on a train heading south at 50 mph ...”

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This is an excerpt — read the full article to find out what students think of the event in Sunday's Butler Eagle.

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