Ben Wiswell rocks the rhombus!

Fri, Apr 30, 2010 CAPE GAZETTE, by Dave Frederick


THE WIZARD OF WISWELL - Ben Wiswell, seventh-grade Beacon math whiz and a really cool kid, finished first in a recent statewide math competition, not fourth as reported by this writer whose short story “Euclid the Truck and the Mathematician” was panned by his own grandmother as “funny in an uninteresting sort of way.” The competition came down to the final six students in a tie-breaker round and Ben was on the question like Ptolemy on a protractor beating everyone to the punch to be grand math wizard standing atop a field of 160 seventh-graders.