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Mathletics?
Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 3:16 pm
by Llewthepoet
Do you consider this a sport?
New Jersey kid is America’s top ‘mathlete’
Middle-schooler beats 227 rivals in annual competition
Daesun Yim knows the answer. Friday, he knew more answers than anyone else at the annual Mathcounts competition and walked away with the title.
Daesun, 14, is an eight-grader at Community Middle School in West Windsor, N.J. He beat out 227 other contestants in Arlington, Va., to be crowned the champion on his third try.
Daesun, who will meet President Bush on Monday at the White House, was awarded an $8,000 scholarship, a trip to U.S. Space Camp and a notebook computer, which his coach, Marie Siller, will also get.
Virginia took the team championship, its four members edging the teams from Washington and Indiana to win $2,000 scholarships, trips to U.S. Space Camp and notebook computers.
“These students are the best of the best,” said Gary McDonald, chairman of the Mathcounts Foundation, which is sponsored by Lockheed Martin.
Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 8:59 pm
by Tom Flapwell
No. I think it's a shame that people keep taking non-sports like chess and poker and calling them sports just for ESPN attention and/or an aversion to the "nerd" label. I enjoy spelling bees, but winning one did not make me a jock.
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 12:11 am
by Tum0spoo
Haha, There needs to be a word for intelectual chalenges that isn't a play-off of the word "Sport" or "Athlete"
Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 12:02 pm
by Joe3210
I demand that DDR to be a sport. A respected one like football and soccer.
Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:02 pm
by Bocaj Claw
I demand it not be. I also demand permission to make fun of DDR.
Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 4:11 pm
by Joe3210
Permission granted.
Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 4:18 pm
by Tum0spoo
I demand a cookie.
Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 6:00 pm
by Bocaj Claw
You can have one of my sorta-famous laxative brownies.
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:00 am
by gen200
gotta be regular.
really, they don't need to be mking any more math competetions.
why not grammar, or foreign languages.
math is overrated.
maybe they torture us 'book nerds' by overrating math.
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 3:55 am
by Tum0spoo
gotta be regular.
really, they don't need to be mking any more math competetions.
why not grammar, or foreign languages.
math is overrated.
maybe they torture us 'book nerds' by overrating math.
<GLARE>
Math is NEVER overrated. Math is the key to upholding the modern world.
It takes language to build a society, but math and science to build a world.
~Tum0spoo
You may quote me on that.
...no lame 'quoteing' puns please.
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 1:59 pm
by Tom Flapwell
If I had a nickel for every time I heard someone complain about math...um, hm, this is a tough one.
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 5:08 pm
by gen200
I'm complaining about basic math.
with physics, algebra, and trig I'm actually doing something.
with basic math it was just one tedious thing after another, drilled into my head painfully when I already knew it.
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 5:32 pm
by Zaaphod
If I had a nickel for every time I heard someone complain about math...um, hm, this is a tough one.
If I had a nickel for every dime I have, I'd have half as much money. Yay for math.
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 6:00 pm
by CodeCat
Well if it's a consolidation, I'm pretty good at maths so I hereby offer to help people understand their math homework. With the danger of being calculated to death by a horde of non-mathematic O&M fans.
Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 3:18 pm
by Tavis
If I had a nickel for every time I heard someone complain about math...um, hm, this is a tough one.
If I had a nickel for every dime I have, I'd have half as much money. Yay for math.
Wouldn't it be "I'd have 50% more money" though? I mean, if you had a nickel for every dime you have, wouldn't you still have the dime? Or am I thinking too much into it?
Otherwise, good joke.
