Robert Frost beats Takoma Park in Mathcounts

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In most recent AMC8
TPMS got over 26 kids in honor roll and 10 kids in distinguish honor roll (6, 7, 8 graders)

Robert Frost has 1 in honor roll and 3 in distinguish honor roll. All of the them are 7th graders. These kids would have made TPMS if it were not cohort

Wait to see AMC10 result coming out.

Isn't this exactly what MoCo intended? These kids are with a great cohort, a kick-a__ Mathcounts team, and, if half of these posters are to be believed, a better program than the TPMS magnet. They should be grateful for MCPS. Plus, no long bus ride.

Yes, it is, but you are confused as to why some folks on here are lamenting what's going on with magnets.

[Anonymous]

Also not sure you can use Math Counts as a judge of these schools. Contest math is a studied skill and seems the kids that do well spend a lot of time doing outside enrichment to study for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also not sure you can use Math Counts as a judge of these schools. Contest math is a studied skill and seems the kids that do well spend a lot of time doing outside enrichment to study for it.

Preach. Exactly what I was thinking.

Look, folks, they're both great schools. Be happy, Frost Folk, no need to take aim at TPMS. I find it odd that people on this listserv try to take down Blair SMACS and TPMS. It's clearly dominated by the western set (really? 6pp of this?) . I don't see my downcounty peeps doing that to other schools. Get over your bad selves, Frosties, and relax a little. Life's too short.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In most recent AMC8
TPMS got over 26 kids in honor roll and 10 kids in distinguish honor roll (6, 7, 8 graders)

Robert Frost has 1 in honor roll and 3 in distinguish honor roll. All of the them are 7th graders. These kids would have made TPMS if it were not cohort

Wait to see AMC10 result coming out.

That's awesome! I knew the admission changes had little impact on student performance. Just another false narrative by parents who miss being able to easily game the system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In most recent AMC8
TPMS got over 26 kids in honor roll and 10 kids in distinguish honor roll (6, 7, 8 graders)

Robert Frost has 1 in honor roll and 3 in distinguish honor roll. All of the them are 7th graders. These kids would have made TPMS if it were not cohort

Wait to see AMC10 result coming out.

Sorry I made an error. Robert Frost has 5 kids in honor roll.

if you check

http://amc-reg.maa.org/reports/generalreports.aspx

Select AMC 8 11/12/2019
School Honor Roll .

You will see in Maryland State
1. TPMS Silver Spring 74.0
2 Burleigh Manor MS, Ellicott City 70
3. ROBERTO CLEMENTE MS GERMANTOWN 69
4 University of Maryland, Baltimore City Baltimore 69
5. Robert Frost Middle School Rockville, 68

TPMS and RCMS should do better as magnet schools, but Robert Frost MS is doing great, and very impressive as the only one non MCPS magnet school in honor roll.

I am pretty sure TPMS will outperform most middle school in AMC10 which is high school level.

Regarding TPMS lost to Frost in chapter mathcounts, it might be an isolated case. During the high school math madness competition TPMS was the only one middle school competing with high schools and we were in division 1 !

Here is the ranking
Blair 5
RM 35
TPMS 39
Wootton 47

We lost in first round in brackets by just one point to a prestigious Hawaii private high school -- and we could have won if some of our top scores had not participated the school science bowl tryout !

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In most recent AMC8
TPMS got over 26 kids in honor roll and 10 kids in distinguish honor roll (6, 7, 8 graders)

Robert Frost has 1 in honor roll and 3 in distinguish honor roll. All of the them are 7th graders. These kids would have made TPMS if it were not cohort

Wait to see AMC10 result coming out.

Sorry I made an error. Robert Frost has 5 kids in honor roll.

if you check

http://amc-reg.maa.org/reports/generalreports.aspx

Select AMC 8 11/12/2019
School Honor Roll .

You will see in Maryland State
1. TPMS Silver Spring 74.0
2 Burleigh Manor MS, Ellicott City 70
3. ROBERTO CLEMENTE MS GERMANTOWN 69
4 University of Maryland, Baltimore City Baltimore 69
5. Robert Frost Middle School Rockville, 68

TPMS and RCMS should do better as magnet schools, but Robert Frost MS is doing great, and very impressive as the only one non MCPS magnet school in honor roll.

I am pretty sure TPMS will outperform most middle school in AMC10 which is high school level.

Regarding TPMS lost to Frost in chapter mathcounts, it might be an isolated case. During the high school math madness competition TPMS was the only one middle school competing with high schools and we were in division 1 !

Here is the ranking
Blair 5
RM 35
TPMS 39
Wootton 47

We lost in first round in brackets by just one point to a prestigious Hawaii private high school -- and we could have won if some of our top scores had not participated the school science bowl tryout !

Thanks for keeping track of them. TPMS of course also benefits from its current 8th graders whose admissions were largely unaffected by the cohort criterion. Among all the TPMS kid placed in the tests how many of them are 7th graders? How about Frost? Frost Mathcounts team has many 7th graders. I am sure Frost kids do not have an opportunity to participate AMC 10 unless they skip school and pay the fee themselves.

By the way, what is “high school math madness competition? Are nonmagnet middle school kids eligible to participate?

[Anonymous]

PP, here it is math madness -- it is a virtual math competition

https://www.aretelabs.com/math_madness/44/rankings

i think any school can sign up there three levels
elementary, middle and high --- TPMS participated high school

[Anonymous]

added to previous post, if you click top 20 players, the ranking of TPMS would be much higher because of "magnet"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also not sure you can use Math Counts as a judge of these schools. Contest math is a studied skill and seems the kids that do well spend a lot of time doing outside enrichment to study for it.

Preach. Exactly what I was thinking.

Look, folks, they're both great schools. Be happy, Frost Folk, no need to take aim at TPMS. I find it odd that people on this listserv try to take down Blair SMACS and TPMS. It's clearly dominated by the western set (really? 6pp of this?) . I don't see my downcounty peeps doing that to other schools. Get over your bad selves, Frosties, and relax a little. Life's too short.

+1 I have a TPMS magnet kid and she is absolutely disinterested in MathCounts or any other competition math. I'm glad that her peers that do have that interest are able to access opportunities at TPMS, but I'm not mad that Frost kids have the same chances. Good for them!

There are apparently 11 kids coming into TPMS next year who have already completed AIM. I have no doubt that there are some really bright kids in that group, and that a handful of them will want to participate in MathCounts or another team. Nothing in this thread or in my actual experience suggests a dearth of smart capable kids at any of the schools in the county, including TPMS.

[Anonymous]

OMG! What silliness is this? It is only middle school! There is a long way to go. And if TPMS is encouraging kids who are top of their class in their schools to attend, that's a good thing right? So much elitist, exclusionary nonsense on this thread. TPMS kids will do fine. And so will the great kids at Frost. very well done...

[Anonymous]

Congratulate on these wonderful performance! We should encourage more mathletes to compete and do their best. Math is fun! Hope them do better in the state.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP, here it is math madness -- it is a virtual math competition

https://www.aretelabs.com/math_madness/44/rankings

i think any school can sign up there three levels
elementary, middle and high --- TPMS participated high school

Thanks for sharing. TP ranks higher than RM once you calculate top 10 scorers. It really has a magnet effect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL

One time Frost beats TPMS and all the W parents come glowing and singing.
Even Leicester won the BPL too.

But I understand. When you beat the big dog, you gotta glow

^^ the only truthful post in this thread

I think you're right. Frost had a good day but I doubt this will happen again or is even repeatable. In fact, let's follow up on this in a couple of months and see how it pans out. Most the nonsense posted here is by bitter parents whose kids weren't able to make the cut for TPMS so they delight in trash-talking and spreading debunked conspiracy theories.

Not One Good Day: Frost beat TP in the Math League Competition held in Julius West MS in January, Twice in 2 months now, (2-0), ....Lets encourage everyone to participate...not only the magnet school students...

[Anonymous]

Well, this the predictable outcome of no longer admitting the best and brightest into the magnets. I don't think having OOB magnet students winning math competitions ever helped the low income and poor performing students at TPMS anyway so the loss of rank and prestige at TPMS in favor of a school in the western side of the county shouldn't matter to MCPS either.

What is ridiculous though is that MCPS offers a more rigorous STEM curriculum at TPMS then the other schools who now have higher performing students. They really should swap out the curriculums. Schools like Frost, Pyle and wherever the real highest performing cohort is now located at should have the more difficult curriculum and TPMS should have the enriched curriculum which would better serve its new cohort with a larger range of academic abilities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, this the predictable outcome of no longer admitting the best and brightest into the magnets. I don't think having OOB magnet students winning math competitions ever helped the low income and poor performing students at TPMS anyway so the loss of rank and prestige at TPMS in favor of a school in the western side of the county shouldn't matter to MCPS either.

What is ridiculous though is that MCPS offers a more rigorous STEM curriculum at TPMS then the other schools who now have higher performing students. They really should swap out the curriculums. Schools like Frost, Pyle and wherever the real highest performing cohort is now located at should have the more difficult curriculum and TPMS should have the enriched curriculum which would better serve its new cohort with a larger range of academic abilities.

Clueless