My son is a mathlete

[PhineasJWhoopee]

I never heard of the term and I thought it was funny.

Four kids including my son were asked to join the school math league team.

It's cool at his school to be smart, so there's no social stigma, which is good.

 

[Malak]

I got a gold medal at a math event when I was in the 7th grade. Or maybe 8th grade, I can't remember.

 

[PhineasJWhoopee]

I got a gold medal at a math event when I was in the 7th grade. Or maybe 8th grade, I can't remember.

He's a sophmore in HS and is taking Honors Alegebra II/Trig.

Hopefully he'll bring home some awards too.

 

[lxskllr]

I got a gold medal at a math event when I was in the 7th grade. Or maybe 8th grade, I can't remember.

Not good with numbers, eh?

:^P

 

[TuxDave]

I was the captain of my math league team. >_>

 

[coldmeat]

It was cool to be smart at my school when I was in high school too, but the math club/teams were always a joke. Reach for the top on the other hand was popular.

 

[PhineasJWhoopee]

It was cool to be smart at my school when I was in high school too, but the math club/teams were always a joke. Reach for the top on the other hand was popular.

They don't have that program but they have Academic Decathlon.

 

[bhanson]

When I was in high school it was also cool to be smart, but I always hated how some things were social taboo.

Choir at my school was considered a losers club which I thought was dumb. I joined choir my senior year partially because I wanted to do it and partially because I wanted to crap on the status quo. I think I was the first person to play sports and take choir in quite a while.

 

[Matthiasa]

Math is all fun and games till you get to higher levels of it... A single question possibly taking 4+pages is fail.
And that's with being able to use tables and software for results..

 

[nonameo]

Math is all fun and games till you get to higher levels of it... A single question possibly taking 4+pages is fail.
And that's with being able to use tables and software for results..

What are you talking about? that shit is the bomb diggity.

 

[Kirby]

I did math team in high school. Competitions got us out of school, so that was pretty badass. We won most of them, except a couple where 2 home-schooled kids kicked our ass.

 

[PhoKingGuy]

He's a sophmore in HS and is taking Honors Alegebra II/Trig.

Hopefully he'll bring home some awards too.

ALG2/Trig as a sophomore? Thats normal for HS students around here, accelerated would be taking pre-calc as a sophomore, Calc as a Junior and then taking whatever was above that at the magnet high school/local CC as a senior which one of my friends did.

 

[Perknose]

My son is a mathlete

Then I'm guessing he doesn't try to get by with faith-based answers.

Anyway, he must really think you're a truly clueless tool, given that he knows, just by the numbers, the chronological impossibility of dinosaurs co-existing on this earth with man.

 

[Leros]

I went to state math competition in the 8th grade. That was pretty cool. I qualified again in 11th grade. Pretty fun stuff.

 

[Leros]

I did math team in high school. Competitions got us out of school, so that was pretty badass. We won most of them, except a couple where 2 home-schooled kids kicked our ass.

Math competitions were miserables at my school. They were every Saturday at 8am at some school 2-5 hours away. So every Saturday we'd all wake up at 3 AM or so, get on a bus, go take math tests, then get back home around 8 or 9pm.

You couldn't do anything fun on Friday because you had to wake up super early. You couldn't do anything fun on Saturday because you were so tired. Then you couldn't do anything on Sunday because you had homework all day.

I quit after the first year so I could join the robotics team. Much more fun.

 

[zinfamous]

so in your mind, this forum has basically become a venue for your trollish imaginings and your masterbatory pride in the awesome glory of your faultless son.

wonderful.


and yes, mathlete is a hilarious term. he will return home with countless bruises most days.

 

[Malak]

so in your mind, this forum has basically become a venue for your trollish imaginings and your masterbatory pride in the awesome glory of your faultless son.

wonderful.


and yes, mathlete is a hilarious term. he will return home with countless bruises most days.

Or a venue for your threadcraps. Everyone else is taking part in the discussion, why do you insist on insulting him?

 

[Kirby]

Math competitions were miserables at my school. They were every Saturday at 8am at some school 2-5 hours away. So every Saturday we'd all wake up at 3 AM or so, get on a bus, go take math tests, then get back home around 8 or 9pm.

You couldn't do anything fun on Friday because you had to wake up super early. You couldn't do anything fun on Saturday because you were so tired. Then you couldn't do anything on Sunday because you had homework all day.

I quit after the first year so I could join the robotics team. Much more fun.

heh, that sounds like scholars bowl (humanities and history). i did really well on the entrance test, but when the teacher gave us a huge stack of bullshit facts and dates to memorize and found out competitions were on weekends i quit.

 

[Leros]

What are you talking about? that shit is the bomb diggity.

Yeah. Those 5-10 page answers are so satisfying. Aaaah, I actually miss those college math classes.

 

[Kirby]

Yeah. Those 5-10 page answers are so satisfying. Aaaah, I actually miss those college math classes.

I liked math until college. Now I'd rather be raped in a filthy bathroom than take another math class.

 

[Leros]

heh, that sounds like scholars bowl (humanities and history). i did really well on the entrance test, but when the teacher gave us a huge stack of bullshit facts and dates to memorize and found out competitions were on weekends i quit.

This was UIL. The competitions were over many subjects, but we usually only brought the math and science team. The other teams (humanities, journalism, etc) only came if the competitions were within 1 hour travel time.

The math and science team did math, number theory, calculator, and science tests.

 

[zinfamous]

Or a venue for your threadcraps. Everyone else is taking part in the discussion, why do you insist on insulting him?

I wasn't the first there, champ.

 

[Tristicus]

He's a sophmore in HS and is taking Honors Alegebra II/Trig.

Hopefully he'll bring home some awards too.

Cool story bro. We've got tons of people doing that at my HS and everyone couldn't give a fuck less.

 

[eits]

i was captain of my high school's it's academic team (dc area high school quiz bowl game show) two years in a row. i lead the team to the quarterfinals, a first in my school's history.

 

[PhineasJWhoopee]

ALG2/Trig as a sophomore? Thats normal for HS students around here, accelerated would be taking pre-calc as a sophomore, Calc as a Junior and then taking whatever was above that at the magnet high school/local CC as a senior which one of my friends did.

Advanced sophomore students take Honors Algebra II/Trig. The normal course is Geometry.

He skipped 8th grade so he took algebra and geometry his freshman year.