Nearly 100 Fifth Graders from Baltimore City Public Schools Compete in Ingenuity’s 2025 Mathopoly
Ingenuity Project hosts a redesigned and expanded competition to build math skills of City’s 5th graders
After nearly six weeks of preparation, 93 fifth graders from eight Baltimore City elementary schools will gather at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (Poly) on Saturday, January 25 to test their math skills at the Ingenuity Project’s innovative Mathopoly competition. Over the course of two hours, teams will complete a series of math games, including solving Olympiad-style math problems on a life-sized Ingenuity-created, Monopoly-inspired game board.
When: Saturday, December 25, 2025
Where: Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (Poly) Gymnasium, 1400 West Cold Spring Lane, 21209
Ingenuity developed its custom Mathopoly board game to strengthen the math skills of Baltimore City fifth graders and cultivate a joy in learning math with the goal of increasing math proficiency of potential applicants to Ingenuity’s advanced math and science middle school programs. High school students at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (Poly) will serve as game officials and role models for the young scholars.
“With Mathopoly, we are creating an engaging experience to show both students and parents that math can be fun, collaborative, and exciting,”says Lisette Morris, Executive Director, Ingenuity Project. “ I love observing the families on the sidelines watching their children like it’s a sporting event. Enrichment experiences like this plant seeds in young scholars around a future involving subjects like math, science, engineering, and technology (STEM). We hope the Ingenuity Mathopoly will inspire them to consider an advanced math curriculum as they make choices for middle school.”
The schools participating in this year’s Mathopoly are: Charles Carroll Barrister Elementary School, Frederick Elementary, Furman L. Templeton Preparatory Academy, George Washington Elementary School, Hamilton Elementary/Middle School, James McHenry Elementary/Middle School, Mary E. Rodman Elementary School, and Matthew A. Henson Elementary School. The Ingenuity Project thanks the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation for supporting this outreach initiative. The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation is a national foundation focused on increasing access to higher education for students with financial need.
Pictures from the 2019 Event
