Math club will participate at Rose-Hulman
November 6, 2008
By Theo Kontos
<tkontos@hilite.org>
Lyndon Ji, Math Club member and freshman said he is looking forward to the upcoming competitions the Math Club will participate in. The next competition occurs on Nov. 8 at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute. Four teams taken from each class from this school will enter the competition.
The goal of this year’s Math club was to make it, said Math Club sponsor Kathie Freed. The Math club meets about twice a month on a Thursday after school, but it is more on an as needed basis depending on upcoming competitions.
“As a sponsor, I only have to facilitate the administrative feature and organize the club. I have gotten a lot of help from the co-presidents Yon-Sue Choi and David Yang,” Freed said. The competitions are coordinated a lot within the school. “Several of the competitions we take here at Carmel”, Freed said. “I gave them the test, and they had 30 minutes to complete 100 problems.”
Ji answered correctly 84 of the 100 problems. Individual scores combine with all the other team members to make a national score. This school placed sixth nationally in the fall start-up test the previous competition. “The math ranges from Algebra I to precalculus with some number theory thrown in,” Freed said. All different teams and schools compete in the tournaments.
Freed also said she feels strongly that math club is great for sociality and genuine fun. Freed said, “The kids seem to know what they are doing. It’s become like tradition where the seniors show the juniors, the juniors show the sophomores, etc. and each year we get better and more of a team.”
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