What makes an amazing mathematician???
a. studying for hours on end... your (x) times tables.
b. not going to the hotel pool and swimming with your friends,
but instead studying the night away in your room.
c. or, simply being "Caden the great" and posing with math
review cards in hotel room after swimming for hours
with your fellow math Olympic school friends.
(correct answer: C for "Caden"! )
How it went down?...
Caden our 4th grade super star has yet another ribbon to add to his collection. Earlier in the school year his class had tryouts after school for students interested in going to math Olympics. Caden heard rumor that a hotel swimming pool, and a day out of school was involved, and instantly he decided to try out.
Out of all the 4th graders who tried out... they totaled the scores and let each student know if they scored higher in "reasoning" word problems... or "computation" speed math facts. After the initial testing, Caden was put into the "reasoning" category.
Each 4th grader was given a series of 3 tests all timed at 10 minutes each in their category... with the top scores advancing. Caden advanced to the top 3 in his "reasoning" category. His score was high enough to qualify him to go to State Math Olympics in Conway Arkansas. All semester he attended after school test review sessions. Doing timed practice tests, and reviews.
Come February Caden was quite ready for his Conway competition!!!
| Dede and Mom pose with the all star Olympian the night before the big event! |
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| The Life Way pool Warriors! Cadens friends play in the hotel pool the night before math olympics. (Martin Grisham, Brennan, Camile Smith, MaryClaire Franklin, Caden Darby, Tony Capito, and Jonah. |
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| Tony and Caden tried every strategy possible to beat MaryClaire and Camile at pool Chicken... but boys were killed by this unstoppable girls team. |
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| It was fun to run into family friend Madeline Morgan from Bentonville She attends Providence Christian school and was in Cadens "Reasoning" category... |
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| (Above) 21 of the 22 Life Way Math Olympic team. |
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| The 6 winners from our school!!! Caden was the youngest member of our winning team! |
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| This was such an awesome achievement! Caden had to beat out 24 other 4th grade reasoning contestants to take home this 2nd place ribbon... It was a series of 3 very hard tests, and Caden did not miss a single problem on his first 2 out of 3 tests! |
Where Caden gets his Math skill is beyond us,
but we will take it!!!
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