Mathcounts results 2024 MoCo+PG

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is so sad. Mathcounts is great and instead of just celebrating all the kids who participated, this thread is just using it to bash and complain. Kids, if you are reading, I think you’re all wonderful. Every mathlete is a champion because anyone who loves math enough to compete is already a winner. Super corny, but really true.

THIS

Thank you, PP

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Anonymous wrote:Poor kids in the upper county. Their middle schools don't even have math teams!
This shows how polarized this society is. Sigh!

Math team is a student club. If their middle schools don’t have math team then it just means there isn’t enough interest from students in the school to run a club. It’s nothing to do with polarization. They just have different interests.

God forbid schools encourage students to get more involved in learning math.

If math team students even spent 50% of the effort kids made for sports like football, the future of this country would look very different.

Lol, let me flip that around for ya:

If football kids even spent 50% of the effort others put into math team, the future of this country would look very different.

There, fixed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Poor kids in the upper county. Their middle schools don't even have math teams!
This shows how polarized this society is. Sigh!

Math team is a student club. If their middle schools don’t have math team then it just means there isn’t enough interest from students in the school to run a club. It’s nothing to do with polarization. They just have different interests.

God forbid schools encourage students to get more involved in learning math.

If math team students even spent 50% of the effort kids made for sports like football, the future of this country would look very different.

Lol, let me flip that around for ya:

If football kids even spent 50% of the effort others put into math team, the future of this country would look very different.

There, fixed.

Yep. Our students can't compete with world kids the way education is here. Only bully the rest with military. May we have PeACE on earth.

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Anonymous wrote:Poor kids in the upper county. Their middle schools don't even have math teams!
This shows how polarized this society is. Sigh!

Math team is a student club. If their middle schools don’t have math team then it just means there isn’t enough interest from students in the school to run a club. It’s nothing to do with polarization. They just have different interests.

God forbid schools encourage students to get more involved in learning math.

If math team students even spent 50% of the effort kids made for sports like football, the future of this country would look very different.

Lol, let me flip that around for ya:

If football kids even spent 50% of the effort others put into math team, the future of this country would look very different.

There, fixed.

Kidding aside meeting for the math team for 1 hour per week is excessive compared to 3 hours of football practice daily. My kid was on one of the top teams at this years mathcounts and they put in an hour a week and that's it. I actually wish they did more, but I don't feel it's my place to push them.

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Anonymous wrote:Poor kids in the upper county. Their middle schools don't even have math teams!
This shows how polarized this society is. Sigh!

Math team is a student club. If their middle schools don’t have math team then it just means there isn’t enough interest from students in the school to run a club. It’s nothing to do with polarization. They just have different interests.

God forbid schools encourage students to get more involved in learning math.

If math team students even spent 50% of the effort kids made for sports like football, the future of this country would look very different.

Lol, let me flip that around for ya:

If football kids even spent 50% of the effort others put into math team, the future of this country would look very different.

There, fixed.

Yep. Our students can't compete with world kids the way education is here. Only bully the rest with military. May we have PeACE on earth.

OK forget math and football. You need to crack open a history book.

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Anonymous wrote:Poor kids in the upper county. Their middle schools don't even have math teams!
This shows how polarized this society is. Sigh!

Math team is a student club. If their middle schools don’t have math team then it just means there isn’t enough interest from students in the school to run a club. It’s nothing to do with polarization. They just have different interests.

God forbid schools encourage students to get more involved in learning math.

If math team students even spent 50% of the effort kids made for sports like football, the future of this country would look very different.

Lol, let me flip that around for ya:

If football kids even spent 50% of the effort others put into math team, the future of this country would look very different.

There, fixed.

Kidding aside meeting for the math team for 1 hour per week is excessive compared to 3 hours of football practice daily. My kid was on one of the top teams at this years mathcounts and they put in an hour a week and that's it. I actually wish they did more, but I don't feel it's my place to push them.

Which middle school football team practices for 3 hours a day???

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Poor kids in the upper county. Their middle schools don't even have math teams!
This shows how polarized this society is. Sigh![/quote]

Math team is a student club. If their middle schools don’t have math team then it just means there isn’t enough interest from students in the school to run a club. It’s nothing to do with polarization. They just have different interests. [/quote]

God forbid schools encourage students to get more involved in learning math. [/quote]

If math team students even spent 50% of the effort kids made for sports like football, the future of this country would look very different.[/quote]

It never works out when math interested students are accused of being heavily prepped from outside and deprived from getting opportunities of gifted education at school. So no wonder this country is going downhill. [/quote]

Families who study, I mean "prep", do not pay attention to the sad sacks who throw shade from the dust and sidelines.

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Anonymous wrote:Poor kids in the upper county. Their middle schools don't even have math teams!
This shows how polarized this society is. Sigh!

Math team is a student club. If their middle schools don’t have math team then it just means there isn’t enough interest from students in the school to run a club. It’s nothing to do with polarization. They just have different interests.

Not true. We have kids into math at our school. We do pretty well at Science Olympiad and Robotics competitions. But there's no teacher sponsor for math club/team anymore (yes I have asked repeatedly).

I don't think we have ever done math counts as a school before. It's lack of staff time. The science Olympiad teacher's done it for a decade; the robotics team is run by a parent actually. When I asked the department head, she asked me if I'd like to run math club/team! Lol. I am actually considering it for next year actually because I *am* in stem, and I did do math competitions as a kid. So not totally ignorant but not at all a teacher and wouldn't really know how to start.

https://www.mathcounts.org/programs/welcome-club-leaders

www.mathcounts.org/programs/welcome-club-leaders

This is not a problem at all. Lots of clubs are run by parents and high school students. This isn't 30 rowdy kids who don't want to be there. It's 4-20 kids who want to participate.

Annoying MCPS rules means that a teacher is required for on campus activities. But you can run the club on Zoom too. Not ideal, but it's something.
Beyond that you can run the whole thing yourself and it only takes time.
You don't even need the school's support at all if you run the club on Zoom or at someone's house or at a library, and sign up yourself.

Mathcounts will send you a whole year worth of club training materials in box. In a pinch, the coach doesn't even have to understand the math.
If you can round up some high schoolers to help out, that's great. (SSL hours!)

It does cost some money, which requires someone at the school to apply for reimbursement or for the club members to pay or to ask Mathcounts for financial aid. If you post to DCUM asking for funding for your Mathcounts team fees, I and others will happily pay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wealthier PTAs can afford to give grants to cover teachers who sponsor extracurriculars. Some pandemic funding that had provided a nice bump for that kind of thing fell off a cliff this year. Also, even if a parent runs a club/activity, there typically still needs to be a staff sponsor.

Some folks are oblivious to this or other realities, thinking that funding comes from central, that teachers have all this extra time to donate (though some very generous ones do), or that kids tend to come up with academic club ideas themselves, instead of those being more family driven, with awareness, itself, tending to come from prior years' implementations.

There *are* kids at places without Mathcounts who would be interested, but without all *schools* making academic extracurriculars a priority (some don't even make them suggestions for what *could* be an option to ascertain interest), it's a chicken and egg thing, in addition to a family resource thing, and they're left out in the cold. Those suggesting they don't exist or somehow should be fine with less are willfully ignorant or engaging in schadenfreude.

Are you saying this MCPS stoped policy isn't true?


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Anonymous wrote:Poor kids in the upper county. Their middle schools don't even have math teams!
This shows how polarized this society is. Sigh!

Math team is a student club. If their middle schools don’t have math team then it just means there isn’t enough interest from students in the school to run a club. It’s nothing to do with polarization. They just have different interests.

God forbid schools encourage students to get more involved in learning math.

If math team students even spent 50% of the effort kids made for sports like football, the future of this country would look very different.

Lol, let me flip that around for ya:

If football kids even spent 50% of the effort others put into math team, the future of this country would look very different.

There, fixed.

Kidding aside meeting for the math team for 1 hour per week is excessive compared to 3 hours of football practice daily. My kid was on one of the top teams at this years mathcounts and they put in an hour a week and that's it. I actually wish they did more, but I don't feel it's my place to push them.

Which middle school football team practices for 3 hours a day???

I know most HS teams practice 2.5 hours a day. Regardless, that's way more time than any math team that meets for just an hour a week, but our society values sports more than intelligence.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Poor kids in the upper county. Their middle schools don't even have math teams!
This shows how polarized this society is. Sigh!

Math team is a student club. If their middle schools don’t have math team then it just means there isn’t enough interest from students in the school to run a club. It’s nothing to do with polarization. They just have different interests.

Not true. We have kids into math at our school. We do pretty well at Science Olympiad and Robotics competitions. But there's no teacher sponsor for math club/team anymore (yes I have asked repeatedly).

I don't think we have ever done math counts as a school before. It's lack of staff time. The science Olympiad teacher's done it for a decade; the robotics team is run by a parent actually. When I asked the department head, she asked me if I'd like to run math club/team! Lol. I am actually considering it for next year actually because I *am* in stem, and I did do math competitions as a kid. So not totally ignorant but not at all a teacher and wouldn't really know how to start.

https://www.mathcounts.org/programs/welcome-club-leaders

www.mathcounts.org/programs/welcome-club-leaders

This is not a problem at all. Lots of clubs are run by parents and high school students. This isn't 30 rowdy kids who don't want to be there. It's 4-20 kids who want to participate.

Annoying MCPS rules means that a teacher is required for on campus activities. But you can run the club on Zoom too. Not ideal, but it's something.
Beyond that you can run the whole thing yourself and it only takes time.
You don't even need the school's support at all if you run the club on Zoom or at someone's house or at a library, and sign up yourself.

Mathcounts will send you a whole year worth of club training materials in box. In a pinch, the coach doesn't even have to understand the math.
If you can round up some high schoolers to help out, that's great. (SSL hours!)

It does cost some money, which requires someone at the school to apply for reimbursement or for the club members to pay or to ask Mathcounts for financial aid. If you post to DCUM asking for funding for your Mathcounts team fees, I and others will happily pay.

if only more students were interested at these schools they wouldn't have trouble finding a sponsor.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Poor kids in the upper county. Their middle schools don't even have math teams!
This shows how polarized this society is. Sigh!

Math team is a student club. If their middle schools don’t have math team then it just means there isn’t enough interest from students in the school to run a club. It’s nothing to do with polarization. They just have different interests.

Not true. We have kids into math at our school. We do pretty well at Science Olympiad and Robotics competitions. But there's no teacher sponsor for math club/team anymore (yes I have asked repeatedly).

I don't think we have ever done math counts as a school before. It's lack of staff time. The science Olympiad teacher's done it for a decade; the robotics team is run by a parent actually. When I asked the department head, she asked me if I'd like to run math club/team! Lol. I am actually considering it for next year actually because I *am* in stem, and I did do math competitions as a kid. So not totally ignorant but not at all a teacher and wouldn't really know how to start.

https://www.mathcounts.org/programs/welcome-club-leaders

www.mathcounts.org/programs/welcome-club-leaders

This is not a problem at all. Lots of clubs are run by parents and high school students. This isn't 30 rowdy kids who don't want to be there. It's 4-20 kids who want to participate.

Annoying MCPS rules means that a teacher is required for on campus activities. But you can run the club on Zoom too. Not ideal, but it's something.
Beyond that you can run the whole thing yourself and it only takes time.
You don't even need the school's support at all if you run the club on Zoom or at someone's house or at a library, and sign up yourself.

Mathcounts will send you a whole year worth of club training materials in box. In a pinch, the coach doesn't even have to understand the math.
If you can round up some high schoolers to help out, that's great. (SSL hours!)

It does cost some money, which requires someone at the school to apply for reimbursement or for the club members to pay or to ask Mathcounts for financial aid. If you post to DCUM asking for funding for your Mathcounts team fees, I and others will happily pay.

if only more students were interested at these schools they wouldn't have trouble finding a sponsor.

Stop telling meathead lies. Teachers are tired after dealing with classes all day.

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Anonymous wrote:Poor kids in the upper county. Their middle schools don't even have math teams!
This shows how polarized this society is. Sigh!

Math team is a student club. If their middle schools don’t have math team then it just means there isn’t enough interest from students in the school to run a club. It’s nothing to do with polarization. They just have different interests.

God forbid schools encourage students to get more involved in learning math.

If math team students even spent 50% of the effort kids made for sports like football, the future of this country would look very different.

Lol, let me flip that around for ya:

If football kids even spent 50% of the effort others put into math team, the future of this country would look very different.

There, fixed.

Kidding aside meeting for the math team for 1 hour per week is excessive compared to 3 hours of football practice daily. My kid was on one of the top teams at this years mathcounts and they put in an hour a week and that's it. I actually wish they did more, but I don't feel it's my place to push them.

Which middle school football team practices for 3 hours a day???

I know most HS teams practice 2.5 hours a day. Regardless, that's way more time than any math team that meets for just an hour a week, but our society values sports more than intelligence.

Football isn't cover 4 hours per week as a class in school, plus homework, and math team doesn't need to factor in time to change clothes and shower. Competitively serious math teams have additional homework study, since they don't meed to meet at the gym to exercise on special equipment.
This comparison is idiotic.

[Anonymous]

The comparison is only relevant to the point of each activity's usefulness. Being "pretty good" at math will likely have lifelong advantages, in terms of work prospects. Being pretty good at football is rather useless because pretty good is not enough - you have to be the best.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Poor kids in the upper county. Their middle schools don't even have math teams!
This shows how polarized this society is. Sigh!

Math team is a student club. If their middle schools don’t have math team then it just means there isn’t enough interest from students in the school to run a club. It’s nothing to do with polarization. They just have different interests.

Not true. We have kids into math at our school. We do pretty well at Science Olympiad and Robotics competitions. But there's no teacher sponsor for math club/team anymore (yes I have asked repeatedly).

I don't think we have ever done math counts as a school before. It's lack of staff time. The science Olympiad teacher's done it for a decade; the robotics team is run by a parent actually. When I asked the department head, she asked me if I'd like to run math club/team! Lol. I am actually considering it for next year actually because I *am* in stem, and I did do math competitions as a kid. So not totally ignorant but not at all a teacher and wouldn't really know how to start.

https://www.mathcounts.org/programs/welcome-club-leaders

www.mathcounts.org/programs/welcome-club-leaders

This is not a problem at all. Lots of clubs are run by parents and high school students. This isn't 30 rowdy kids who don't want to be there. It's 4-20 kids who want to participate.

Annoying MCPS rules means that a teacher is required for on campus activities. But you can run the club on Zoom too. Not ideal, but it's something.
Beyond that you can run the whole thing yourself and it only takes time.
You don't even need the school's support at all if you run the club on Zoom or at someone's house or at a library, and sign up yourself.

Mathcounts will send you a whole year worth of club training materials in box. In a pinch, the coach doesn't even have to understand the math.
If you can round up some high schoolers to help out, that's great. (SSL hours!)

It does cost some money, which requires someone at the school to apply for reimbursement or for the club members to pay or to ask Mathcounts for financial aid. If you post to DCUM asking for funding for your Mathcounts team fees, I and others will happily pay.

if only more students were interested at these schools they wouldn't have trouble finding a sponsor.

If only all schools made extracurriculars like Mathcounts equally well known every year, they wouldn't have trouble finding at least some interested students to blow a hole in that slanted argument. Chicken and egg.