Fourth and fifth grade students at Avonworth elementary got a broader vision of mathmatics when they heard from dozens of speakers during the Women in Math Conference held last Friday. Organized by teacher Amy Besterman, the program was designed to encourage young girls to do better in math by exposing them to women who use math in their professional careers. The fifth graders pictured above, from Laura Dzadovsky’s classroom, hosted The Citizen publisher Connie Rankin, who explained how much math comes into play in running and publishing a newspaper. The students also welcomed Citizen Great Dane mascot Arthur, and used math to help figure out how much Arthur weighs, how much he needs to eat, how old he is in “dog years,” and how much exercise he needs.