2003-04
In 2003 - 04, we began a second club, so had Fibonaccians for 4th-6th grade, and Euclideans for 7th-9th grade.
Fibonaccians:
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Andrew |
Luke |
Peter |
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Asher |
Martin |
Rachel |
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Heather |
Mason |
Timothy |
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Jonathan |
Nathan |
Euclideans:
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Andrew |
James |
Philip |
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Asher |
Jeremy |
Victor |
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Chris |
Jonathan |
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Elias |
Peter |
Fibonaccians:
Probability Problems: Sure Thing!
More Addition Patterns: The Addition Pyramid
Greatest Common Factor: Checkers, Anyone?
Divisibility by Powers of 2: The Packaging Problem
Continued Fractions: Repeat Performance
Circles: Pieces of Pie
Work Problems: On the Job
Venn Diagram Problems: School Daze
Unusual Patterns: About Face!
Multiples: The Marching Band
Divisibility by 3 and 9: The Faded Bill of Sale
Fractional Parts: What's My Number?
Euclideans:
Exponents
Perimeter: The Missing Dimension
Clock Problems: As Time Goes By
Whodunits: Who's on First?
Patterns and Sums: A Child Prodigy
Least Common Multiple: Broadway Band
Divisibility by 11: Search for a Pattern
Circumference: "Circular Reasoning"
Related Problems: Handshakes
Combined Divisibility: Cheaper by the Dozen
This was the primary focus in the Fibonaccians. 18,765 students from 799 teams participated in this contest. We practiced past Math Olympiad problems each week, and did the 5 contests that make up this competition. This challenging competition is aimed at 4th to 6th graders. I noticed a significant improvement in those students who were with us last year. All that practice is paying off! Peter scored 4 out of 5 on three rounds; Asher, Jonathan, & Timothy each scored 4 out of 5 on two rounds.
Participants -- Andrew, Asher, Heather, Jonathan, Luke, Martin, Mason, Nathan, Peter, Rachel, Timothy
Place in our club Student 1st
Peter 2nd
Jonathan 3rd
Timothy Asher, Jonathan, Peter & Timothy earned a patch for the distinction of scoring in the top 50% of all contestants. Jonathan & Peter also earned a silver pin for the distinction of scoring in the top 10% of all contestants.
The Math Olympiads were very challenging for most of our 4th graders and younger. But I am very pleased with the progress and perseverance I saw in each one. I feel that despite the difficulty of the problems, the students benefited from being exposed to some higher-level concepts. I encouraged them to stretch themselves beyond what they thought they could do, and to think creatively. I suspect many of the parents got a mental workout, too! :)
This was an important part of the Euclideans' club. 4,613 students from 228 teams participated in this contest. We did the 5 contests that make up this competition. This challenging competition is aimed at 7th to 8th graders. Jonathan, Peter, & Timothy each scored 4 out of 5 on two rounds; Elias, James, & Jeremy each scored 4 out of 5 on one round.
Participants -- Asher, Elias, James, Jeremy, Jonathan, Peter, Philip, Timothy
Place in our club Student 1st
Peter 2nd
Jeremy & Jonathan 3rd
Elias
Elias, Jeremy, Jonathan, Peter, Philip & Timothy earned a patch for the distinction of scoring in the top 50% of all contestants.
We used MathCounts materials as the basis of our Euclideans' homework each week. This challenging 6th-8th grade competition is the most widely done math competition among U.S. school children of this age group. 6,093 schools participated in this contest. Each school is permitted to enter one team of four plus up to four individuals. We entered a team (Peter, Jeremy, Timothy, Elias) plus two individuals (Philip, James). We had a great time at Georgia Tech, among stiff competition from ALL other Gwinnett County schools. Our boys competed in individual and team rounds, and just for fun, in a live "countdown" round, in which schools were randomly selected, and students went one-on-one against one another in a speed calculation. Our team came 12th out of 12 schools that participated from Gwinnett County. We can only go up from here :) Most of the other students were 8th graders, of course (ours were all 6th or 7th). Peter came 30th out of 74 students on the individual rounds. Look out next year--we'll be practicing!
This is a challenging contest, aimed at 7th and 8th graders. 158,309 students from 2,737 schools participated in this contest.
Participants -- Asher, Elias, Jeremy, Jonathan, Martin, Peter, Philip, Timothy
place in our club Student 1st
Peter 2nd
Elias 3rd
Jeremy, Jonathan, Philip (tie) Peter also earned a special merit award for scoring in the top 2% of all 6th graders and under. Here are statistics on how our students who scored in the top 50% did:
Student Grade level Georgia ranking for student's grade World ranking for student's grade percentile (world) Peter 6th 8th out of 226 369th out of 15,414 97.6% Elias 7th 135th out of 735 6,250th out of 53,170 88.2% Jonathan 5th (he's actually a 4th grader) 2nd out of 4 204th out of 1,553 86.9% Jeremy 7th 299th out of 735 15,637th out of 53,170 70.6% Philip 7th 299th out of 735 15,637th out of 53,170 70.6% Timothy 6th 159th out of 226 7,084th out of 15,414 54.0%
This is a very challenging contest, aimed at 9th and 10th graders. 105,220 students from 3,739 schools participated in this contest.
Participants -- Andrew, Chris, Elias, Jeremy, Jonathan, Peter, Philip, Victor
place in our club Student 1st
Peter 2nd
Elias 3rd
Chris Here are statistics on how our students who scored in the top 50% did:
Student Grade level Georgia ranking for student's grade World ranking for student's grade percentile (world) Peter 6th 2nd out of 3 38th out of 138 72.4% Chris 9th 245th out of 858 10,628th out of 33,095 67.9% Victor 9th 309th out of 858 13,261st out of 33,095 59.9%
This is the most difficult competition the Euclideans entered this year. About 900 students participated in our region. The competition consists of four rounds, and targets 9th to 12th graders (i.e. high school). We came 71st out of 77 teams in the Eastern Region. Keep in mind that most of our team are not high school age yet! Here's the results for our team:
Participants -- Andrew, Asher, Chris, Elias, James, Jeremy, Jonathan, Peter, Philip, Victor
Place in our club Student 1st
Chris 2nd
Peter 3rd
Victor 4th Jeremy
We had about 50 folks for this year's ceremony! Our speaker (& father of 4 of our math clubbers), Mr. Kevin, explained how math is all about relationships, and people are more important than math. Everyone enjoyed his apple analogy. The students all received their awards. This year I decided to give a "most improved" award to Elias for the most improvement in math scores compared with last year's. We again enjoyed a variety of creative math-related snacks!
(When a problem comes along, you must whip it!)
Well done, everyone!