Winning the Algebra Dash and the Trig Triatholon

If you don't know a horizontal asymptote from a partial-fraction decomposition, you may want to ask a teenager.
On Wednesday at the University of Montana, more than 1,000 math whizzes from western Montana spent most of their school day racking their left brains at the Montana Council of Teachers of Mathematics math contest, getting grilled on geometry, probability, algebra, trigonometry and calculus.

In the morning, the students .....