Mathcounts results 2024 MoCo+PG
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Mathcounts results 2024 MoCo+PG
Be aware that the difference ranks in the top few teams was about 1% the top score, and the difference between 10th and 50th place was 10% of the top score. Team + Individual combined scores, ranks: 1. Cabin John (Potomac) 2. Robert Frost (Rockville) 3. Takoma Park (math magnet) 4. Westland (Bethesda) 5. Pyle (Bethesda) 6. Eastern (humanities magnet) (Silver Spring) 7. Hoover (Potomac) 8. North Bethesda 9. Tilden (North Bethesda) Schools sending students to State: 11 Takoma Park 10 Cabin John 5 Robert Frost 5 Pyle 5 Eastern 3 Hoover 2 Kingsview 1 North Bethesda 1 Westland 1 Tilden 1 Hallie Wells 1 Wood 1 Redlands 1 Parkland 1 Norwood (plus a few wildcards or be added later) Individuals: 1. CJ1 Cabin John 2. RF1 Robert Frost 3. RF2 4. RF3 5. CJ2 6. TP1 7. TP2 8. CJ3 9. CJ4 10. Pyle1 11 (tie). CJ5 Hoover1 13. RF4 14 (tie). Hoover2 TP3 Pyle2 Westland CJ5 CJ6 20. Pyle2 20. CJ7 20. CJ8 20. TP4 20. Kingsview1 25 (tie). Norwood RF5 Kingsview2 Congratulations to these incredible students! |
Anonymous
The kids at Cabin John and Robert Frost who did not win lottery beat the kids at Takoma Park who won lottery. |
Anonymous
| We all know that students getting into Takoma magnet are not always the top math students in their ES class. Read the stories on this forum and talk to families who will tell you their top Math kid did not get a seat at TPMS magnet but their kid's classmate with lower math test scores etc did get in to TP magnet. MCPS can not get much right. Go to Howard county for a better G/T program. |
Anonymous
I heard the TPMS team this year was mostly inboundary kids. |
Anonymous
LOLOL |
Anonymous
Exactly as intended, and good. Schools with a large local cohort don't need to bus across town to a magnet. More spots for kids around the county who need to cluster together to form a cohort. The magic isn't the courses or teachers (though of course the teachers are great). The secret ingredient is the other kids. |
Anonymous
Cohort is one thing. The other thing is the available courses to them at the school. These kids are probably super bored at school. |
Anonymous
You can’t have other kids as the secret ingredient when math class is taught superficially and not challenging and stimulating to them. They just waste time at school and go to AOPS after school. |
Anonymous
| And yet the results speak for themselves. |
Anonymous
Sooooooo, you're sayin' that heavily prepped kids with a larger peer cohort remaining at their schools and great PTA funding to support academic extracurriculars did well in a math competition? Shocking! |
Anonymous
| I mean, I guess this is proof that the lottery system worked. TPMS still did well and Potomac kids were not harmed by staying at their home school. Nice. |
Anonymous
Absolutely! |
Anonymous
Maybe as intended, but far from adequate. There are spots for what, maybe 20 percent of the pool? And the pool doesn't include anywhere close to all who might benefit from GT programming because of local norming keeping out of the pool a bunch of 90th-95th percentile MAP kids from some schools in the first place? So you get: A group with highly enriched course offerings for maybe 10 percent at the magnet A peer group with much lesser enriched course offerings in high-performing clusters for maybe another 50 percent, a minority of whom are likely to participate in things like Mathcounts to help make up for the disparity A scattered 40 percent with those same lesser offerings but not even a sizeable peer group and often not even access to things like Mathcounts. Bottom line, MCPS has folks focusing on envy about magnet admissions instead of on providing appropriate programming for the GT population, whether at a magnet drawing from the more scattered outliers or locally where a peer group would exist to facilitate logistics of an equivent experience. |
Anonymous
Yes, half the team were inboundary and would attend TPMS regardless. |
Anonymous
Would be there regardless, but not in the magnet program. Those 25 in-bounds-only magnet seats, when considered proportionately to the population there versus the 100 for those not in-bounds, provide TPMS-zoned families something like a 200% greater likelihood of being chosen in the lottery. TPMS isn't particularly overbooked, either, with its recent expamsion. If available seats between the in-boundary and out-of-boundary were balanced vs. the relative overall student populations (say, something like 115 out and 10 in), the extra 15 kids ending up at TPMS from outside the boundary wouldn't create a problem... ...except for those counting on special in-bounds treatment. |