Montgomery the math man!

Thursday, May 05, 2005

Montgomery the math man! Current mood: excited Montgomery does it again! The Sunshine Math Program is used by schools to motivate intrest in math. Montgomery has participated since first grade, when he won at the school level and went on to take 5th place city wide. This year, his 5th, he again won the school level competition. City / District competition has grown - there are now over 10,000 kids in the 5th grade. He was understandably excited to be one of the 28 finalists sent to the District competition. Held at Englewood High School, it's an hour long written test followed by an hour of wiggling anticipation as the moderators give us updates on the scoring ("The kids did so well, we can't even score their tests - they're all winners!" Translation - the kids are smarter than the test givers and they can't figure out why they don't have enough ribbons to go around.) Finally, they found someone (probably a 10 year old) to figure it out for them, and the winners were announced. They started with the lower grades, so there was an aditional 10 minutes of anticipation. Finally the 5th graders were herded onto stage and the names were called out. And then his name was called.... tied for 4th, Montgomery Steele!