Math Competition and School Meetings
We continue with the advanced pace at the school heading to the end of the school year. This week we had our normal events like "Reading with Barnabas" and classes, but we added in our Math Competition which I have been working on for the last two months and a sort of surprise school parent committee meeting (I will explain later) Let's start with the big event for me, the math competition. I tried to model this on the MathCounts competition the Professional Engineering groups have for middle school kids. However I had to modify for the school level of our students (obviously) and somewhat for cultural understandings. We started the morning off much the same as the spelling bee. The Standard I and Pre-Unity Classes were given a written test so I could get the 10 best performing students. We had a large group tie for 6th place and for 10th place so I actually just had the top 9 students for the afternoon competition. We held the...