Posts Tagged ‘ math ’

Ben flew to Boston last weekend with seven other math students from various high schools in the Chicago area to participate in the Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament. My mother helped out as a proctor and was delighted to be involved. Ben did very well on one of his two individual tests: he placed 2nd out of...
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Ben competed in the Latin School math contest today. He competed in the individual and team events. His team came fourth (which earned them medals and a trophy for his school). Individually he placed third – he got a trophy for that. Last year he was in this contest but his team didn’t place, nor...
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Ben asked me if I knew how to do this question yesterday. It’s on his old practice papers for a middle school math competition. He and Steve (the math PhD!) were both having trouble with it. I was very happy that for once, I actually thought of a better way of doing it than...
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