The school board also adopted a new pre-K to grade 5 math curriculum at a special meeting on Monday, March 24.

He’s a favorite teacher. That’s what students say about Nick Crabtree, a fifth-grade math teacher at Algood Middle School in Cookeville, Putnam County.

Math Masters began as a fifth-grade math competition program in 1989 with teams from 44 schools taking part. In 1995, the competition was expanded to include sixth grade, and in 2022, fourth grade ...