Please use the following procedure every Wednesday morning: 1.  Drop-off  Please accompany 3rd-graders to the front office.  4th, 5th, and 6th-graders can be dropped off at the curb.  (This is PTSA before-school policy.) 2.  Walk and keep voices down  Noise from the office carries into the library, where the teachers will usually be holding their … More Wednesday morning sign-in procedure

Please welcome Matt Clark, our new 5th-grade coach!  Matt has agreed to take this on so that our 5th-graders can enjoy the many benefits of competitive math. Join me in thanking Matt for this.  And let’s all lend him our support on this journey, now and throughout the year.  Math coaching is a huge task … More New 5th-grade coach! Now registering all grades

If you were talking to a family who is new to Math Club, what would you want them to know about it? This Wednesday, we’ll have a Parent Information Night for Math Club families.  One thing I’d like to talk about is what Math Club means to students and families that have been in the … More Question for Math Club veterans

[Update:  Slides from my presentation (with kid pictures and other kid info removed) are here.  Thank you to everyone who came, and to Luann for organizing and setting everything up!] Math Club Parent Information Night.  Sep 21st, 7pm, MP library. Every year, on the first day of math club classes, the kids want to get started!  And … More (Updated with slides) New for 2016: Parent Information Night

Hope everyone had a productive, informative Curriculum Night. In the library, we had a lot of parents asking questions about Math Club, many more than last year.  Some families have already signed up, and quite a few indicated interest in joining.  That’s great! We got some great questions from parents and students.  Here are answers to a … More Curriculum Night Wrap-Up

If you’ve seen the math club flyer or read our article in the September Cheetah Chatter (page 13), you’ve seen this year’s set of sample problems.  I hope you’re enjoying them! There are many, many interesting problems that kids learn to solve in math club.  This is only a small subset.  Don’t know what a “subset” is? … More Spoiler alert! Answers to flyer problems

Hope everyone received flyers in kid-mail today.  Be sure to sign up for math club! In case you didn’t get one, or it got lost, you can see a copy here. For veteran math-club families, here are some of the highlights: Registration is open now!  For all grades except 5th, because … … we need … More Flyers!

09-20-2016 update:  We have a 5th-grade coach!  More information to come shortly. Hope everyone is having a great school year so far! Here in Math Club, the good news is that we have been approved for the 2016-2017 school year by the PTSA.  So we can start advertising the club, including here :), and you … More 5th-grade class [updated]

The 2015-2016 End of Year Celebration for Math Club is on Wednesday, May 25, 2016, at 8:10AM in the MP library (classroom/projector area).  MP faculty and staff, and families of math competitors:  We hope you will join us. Who is invited? Students who participated in the club, or in our contests, are welcome to join … More End of Year Celebration!

Update:  Thank you to all our students, our parent event volunteers and chaperones, and our coaches for an amazing Shoreline Math Olympiad day!  Amazing results, including a couple of first-place individual finishes and a 100% award rate for teams (remarkably, every Meridian Park team finished in 6th place or better!). Because this is a public website I’ll … More SMO 2016 – Day of Event/Post-Event Info