I have been concentrating on my son's math education for last two years. During this period, I have found many useful resources that I think every parent should know. One of them is theGreatCoures.com. It is a LLC company in Chantily, Virginia. It has been running for past 20 … [Read more...]
Last Two Years:
I have been concentrating on my son's middle school math last two years. It is pretty fruitful: My son took January 28, 2012 SAT I . He was 8 year 11 month old. He scored 700 on math section. ( http://cty.jhu.edu/set/index.html ) He took AMC 8 on November 23, 2012 and … [Read more...]
Virginia AIME qualifiers through 2013 AMC 10A
There are 32 distinguish honor roll (top 1%) students and 52 honor rolls (top 2.5%) students in Virginia who took AMC 10a. These 84 students are the AIME qualifiers. ( There may be more qualifiers through AMC 10b on Feb. 20th, 2013. These neither include those qualifiers … [Read more...]
AIME qualification changes
AIME Qualification Changes Starting in 2011, the qualification parameters slightly relaxed for the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME). For students taking the 2013 AMC 10 contests, students in the top 2.5% of all scorers or scorers or with at least 120 points … [Read more...]
Feb. 24th, 2013. Longfellow Middle School, Math Magician -Prof. Arthur Benjamin
FCAG sponsored a featured speaker on Feb. 24th, 2013 at Longfellow Middle School. Prof. Arthur Benjamin ( http://www.math.hmc.edu/~benjamin/ ) gave speech to about around 400 audiences ( planned for 200 audiences). Prof. Arthur first showed a new 'invisible' card magic he never … [Read more...]
How to use the AMC report generator to find your information.
go to following link: http://amc-reg.maa.org/Reports/GeneralReports.aspx you find lots of helpful information from there. 1. You choose a contest from there. You can find: AMC 10/12 02/05/2013 AMC 8 11/13/2012 AIME II 03/28/2012 AIME 03/15/2012 AMC 10/12 B 02/22/2012 AMC … [Read more...]
AMC 10, 2013
AMC 10a, 2013 was taken on Feb. 5th 2013 evening at Luther Jackson Middle School with the help of FCAG.org. FCAG invited those who scored high on AMC 8 to take AMC 10 free. Most of them are young students in Elementary Schools and Middle Schools. Some High Schools like Thomas … [Read more...]
AMC 8, 2012 sponsored by FCAG
2012 AMC 8 (http://amc.maa.org/e-exams/e4-amc08/amc8.shtml) was held on Nov. 13, 2012. It was Tuesday. My son took AMC 8 through FCAG sponsored free AMC 8 test. (FCAG is a non-profit organization helping gifted and talented kids and their parents in Fairfax county. Actually, they … [Read more...]
DRA – Developmental Reading Assess test
Fairfax Public School uses DRA 2nd Edition twice a year to assess children's reading level. One is in the beginning of school year. (September and October) One is near the end of school year. ( from March to June depending on grades and schools). So What is DRA? The … [Read more...]
Back to School Night thought
Yesterday was my daughter's school's back to school night for K-3 grade. There are some new changes compared to my son's 4 year back. More and more computers are used even in younger grades. My daughter is in 1st grade. My wife is doing volunteer work at the school computer lab. … [Read more...]
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