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Ok--I am so frustrated. I missed the live MathCounts broadcast and thought there must be some way to see it (youtube? archive?) I really wanted to see it! Ania, hope all went well & it was exciting, wonderful experience.

OK, watching the countdown live was somehow surreal. I still can't believe that my child, who first did a Mathcount problem two months ago made it here!
I believe that the podcast will be online soon, maybe in a day or two. If you are able to see team Utah coming in, mine is the one carrying the banner
For the Mathcounts junkies - Ghost said that Sprint was very difficult and he did maybe 15-20 questions, whatever that means :)He did very well on Target, he thinks that he got 7 out of 8 and all four did very badly on a team round. BUT - we all know that the impressions kids have are usually far from reality My hope/dream is, that this was the best Utah team ever(so far) and that Ghost was in the first 100.
I will keep you posted.
On an interesting note, the boy from California that took second place in Countdown, first written was Ghost's roommate at AwesomeMath last summer

New Mexico got the best improved team !

Ghost did OK. He was in the top 1/3 of all finalists. He was hoping for the top 1/4. He had the highest score from our state though, so it has sweetened it a bit.
We had a GREAT time. It was surreal.
The webcast is available now.

I wish all of you could go through this.
Sign up your kids for Mathcounts

Oh, and I told him that he was representing the Davidson discussion board as well! He grinned, looked down at me (he must be close to 6 ft. now) and said "you ladies are simply crazy".
I loved the idea Dottie!

Congrats to your talented son!

Ania-

Nearly six feet tall!! My son is 12.5 years, 4' 11" and 80 pounds. I think your guy could eat him for lunch! How old is your son again?

Yep, he was the team captain (I think) so he was carrying the sign. He ended up scoring the highest on his team so the sign is now in his permanent posession (will most likely end up under his bed soon, like everything else

Like I have said, countdown is just surreal. I am actually happy that Ghost is done with Mathcounts, otherwise I might have forced him to study mathcounts flash cards! Insane !

Lorel, he had just turned 14. Yep, he is getting close to 6 feet and weighs about 135 lb - skinny. He has grown a lot since last summer. My DH was one of those 5 feet, 70 lb boys when he was graduating high school. He is now 6 feet

My daughter would like to view some of the mathcounts questions to see if she likes the format and all. How did you access the video?

Dottie - I think (I really do not know for sure) that there are a few thousands of questions. The numbers in the questions are being changed, but if you understand/remember/know the question than you understand/remember/know the formula and you use it. There is no other explanation for those kids to have the answer before I am done with reading the question. And I am a very, very fast reader
Ghost has been involved with Mathcounts for the last two months ONLY. From what I have seen, sprint and countdown are very trainable (sp), target and team require more problem solving. My guy, having no speed prep needed for Mathcounts, has been always better in target and team rounds than in sprint and countdown. Statistically speaking.

Bassetlover - the video is here
https://mathcounts.org/Page.aspx?pid=1446

Yeah NM! (No offense, Ania, but we need as much improvement as we can get). I haven't watched beyond the entrances yet--will do so later today, & I can't wait!

What a wonderful experience for Ghost & your whole family! What team-math is there for high schoolers now that he's done with MC--isn't MO individual? I love the dynamics of team competition.

Cym - the answer is ARML
http://www.arml.com/index.php

The team Ghost is on will be competing in Vegas at the end of the month.

Ghost is busy taking a college course right now - we did manage to get him off school for the rest of the month so he could do this.
He is also VERY busy getting to know his new computer:) He has been saving money for a while and he finally bought himself a very powerful, very expensive beast. He wants to spend every waking moment on it!