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Post by Mykal Watsrobe on Sept 15, 2008 20:46:02 GMT -5
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I just remembered..... lol My brother's birthday party is next Saturday....... whoops. Anthony, you have Dr. V for AP Calc, right? Can you tell her I can't go? If not, I'll see if I can stop by and tell her.
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Post by anthony on Sept 16, 2008 0:09:39 GMT -5
I have Dr. Vermilya for AP Calc, but Dr. Velueta is in charge of math team. Just email her.
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Post by Mykal Watsrobe on Sept 16, 2008 0:14:05 GMT -5
Wait..... I just remembered again..... My brother's party is the week after next week..... and it's on a Sunday. lol So I will be able to go.
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Post by anthony on Sept 16, 2008 12:06:07 GMT -5
Good. I need a shoulder to cry on once I fail miserably.
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Post by Mykal Watsrobe on Sept 26, 2008 22:45:04 GMT -5
lol Wut? Last minute notice: I have a lot of homework, which I'm being forced to finish tomorrow because my brother's birthday party is Sunday, and my parents are going to downtown to do something for their anniversary, so I can't go to competition tomorrow.
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Post by anthony on Sept 29, 2008 3:09:12 GMT -5
Here are some math team updates:
Yesterday morning, Robert, me, Kyle, and 2 girls (forgot their names) showed up. My mom was supposed to give rides but since 5 people showed up we were able to fit everyone in Dr. Vermilya's car. On the way there, we warmed up our brains with Brain Age. We did the x20 math questions, and I could not get passed 17 seconds. Robert was able to get 14 seconds, Kyle got 1 minute 2 seconds because he thinks 1x0=1, and the 2 girls got like 26 seconds. We almost got in a car accident because Dr. Vermilya was trying to drive and do speed math at the same time (no jk), but a pick-up truck almost ran into us because the driver must have been falling asleep or did not realize the road was swurvey and hilly. We were all ok, we didn't have to get out of the car or anything, we just kept driving, but we were all in shock.
When we got there, we saw lots of Asians. It was seriously an Asian Convention. Michael, you would have liked it. I think there were about 70% people from Asia (including India) and the rest were white except there was 1 black person (lol).
Our team picked a table in the cafeteria and we went over some math equations that we thought might show up. I also explained to the team how to find derivatives and multiple derivatives (no calculus showed up on anything though).
We were then assigned seperate classrooms to take the individual math test. The test had 40 questions, you got 4 points for a correct answer and -1 for a wrong answer, and you had 60 minutes to take it. The first page was pretty easy but then it got hard from there. I ended up guessing on almost the entire test. Once we turned in our scantron (we were able to keep the math test packet), we went over the test. I actually got a good bit right from guessing, and I think I scored between 22-35 (which is good). There was some Indian kid in my class that only missed one question and skipped two o.o.
After that, our team met back up in the cafeteria and the hosts gave us a snack for free. We went over the the test and told each other our (unofficial) test scores. Robert got around 24, Kyle got around 20, and I think the other two girls were too embarrassed to say what they got (epic lol).
We then broke into teams for the power round. Since we had 5 people and you could only have teams of 4, we split our team into me, robert, and kyle, and a seperate team of just the 2 girls. The power round was basically really intense math problems. There were either 9 or 10 questions (can't remember), they were not multiple choice, and chances are we didn't get any of them right. A lot of the questions had to do with probability or infinity concepts - two things I'm not good at. We never found out what the answers were, but they will probably be posted on the internet.
After we exploded our brains, we each had to split individually and go to seperate tables. This next competition was called "Ciphering". Basically ciphering is doing critical thinking mathematics in under 2 minutes. You get 10 points for finishing in 1 minute and 5 points for finishing in 2 minutes. I can't think of any example problems right now, but expect to do some practice cipher problems sometime in the future. I got 2 right, Robert got 3 right, Kyle got 2 right, and I think the girls were too embarrassed to tell us (epic lulz again). [There were 10 ciphering questions in total]. Some were so difficult that it seemed like they would take 20 minutes to do, but some people were able to answer them in less than 10 seconds. You had to be super asian to be able to answer most of those questions correctly in the given time, and the girl at my table agreed with me. I think one of the answers was like.. (pi * square root 17)/143, and to get this answer you had to find the major and minor axes of an ellipse @_@
We didn't even bother to stay for the awards. We knew it was just for the good experience and we didn't expect to win any big prize. Hopefully we'll be able to recruit some stronger members and have a better turn out next time. On the way back to school we just went over the individual test, but more in depth this time. We realized we needed to learn sequences, infinite sums, and practice more ciphering and team stuff.
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Post by dukenukem on Oct 6, 2008 17:23:19 GMT -5
HOW ABOUT MATH TEAM AND SCIENCE TEAM FIGHT?
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