WASHINGTON — Eduardo Sevilla, a teacher at Loudoun County’s Middleburg Academy, not only teaches math, he celebrates it.

“It is a language that tells stories,” he says on his Middleburg teacher bio. “It is a philosophy of how to think and develop.”

Another way to think and develop? Phrasing an answer in the form of a question.

And Sevilla recently did just that as part of the “Jeopardy!” teachers tournament, when he went up against two other educators. His tournament round aired on local TV Tuesday evening.

Sevilla, who has degrees from both the University of Virginia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, competed against a French/English teacher and a choir teacher for a shot at a $100,000 grand prize.

And while he didn’t win, he did receive a $2,500 educational grant just for competing.  It will go toward an academy STEAM initiative, Sevilla told InsideNova.com.