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Norwood Girl Places 10th In Nation In Math Contest

NORWOOD, N.J. – Ella Guzman, a fourth-grader at Norwood Public School, ranked tenth in the nation at her grade level in the 2016 Math Kangaroo in USA competition.

Ella Guzman with Dan Plotnick, math coach at Bergen County Academies.

Ella Guzman with Dan Plotnick, math coach at Bergen County Academies.

Photo Credit: Courtesy of Bergen County Academies

The 10-year-old was among the winners recently recognized at Bergen County Academies in Hackensack.

Though she loves doing math because it’s challenging, Guzman does not envision a numbers-driven life for herself.

“I would like to be either a writer," she said, "or an ornithologist, a scientist who studies birds."

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