{"id":1443,"date":"2012-02-07T10:14:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T14:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2012-02-07T10:14:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T14:14:34","slug":"math-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/math-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Math Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Allenby  participated in the North West 3 Math Olympics in January. This was the  first year of this event and it was so successful, it is likely to be  expanded in future years. This year, the participants were in Grades 4  and 5. Unfortunately, we had a very short timeline to prepare. Four  students were selected to be the Allenby team and did quite well. They  were Jake Goodman, Ben Chan, Rebecca Heinrich, and Samantha Barton<\/p>\n<p>Although the Allenby Team did not win overall, Jake won 3rd place and Ben won 2nd place for an individual challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The Math Club members and, in fact, all interested students, are encouraged to participate in <strong>World Math Day<\/strong>. Details: The site is <a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?llr=q5echrcab&amp;et=1109207707021&amp;s=0&amp;e=001iYoZVxvZOFjeoWOMGtS4UI3loYKMVojDJUc9sKIMo7euhTG7-w-B1ITrSlAdpnbdwjMZHATgRIKb1QWlfy6QCR-urg0Lt1mDmaWS8yHFBob809LNi4sBbQ==\" target=\"_blank\">www.worldmathsday.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the  website, it is all mental arithmetic, in 60 second challenges.\u00a0 You can  play 100 times and there are 5 different levels, and participants are  sorted by age level.\u00a0 See the section on the site &#8220;About&#8221;, it sums it  all up quickly.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012 the contest is on <strong>March 7th<\/strong>.\u00a0 Registration and practice takes place <strong>Feb 1 &#8211; 28<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to Mme Payne for taking this initiative with the help of Mrs. Sherman and Ms. McGee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allenby participated in the North West 3 Math Olympics in January. This was the first year of this event and it was so successful, it is likely to be expanded in future years. This year, the participants were in Grades 4 and 5. Unfortunately, we had a very short timeline to prepare. Four students were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school-news","tag-math-olympics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1444,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions\/1444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}