Mu Alpha Theta

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I'm thinking about starting a MAT club at my school. If you don't know what it is, it's basically a national high school math honors society. I heard about this from the book Fat Envelope Frenzy.</p>

<p>For those of you who have this club at your school, what do you do for meetings and such? The whole point of this for me is to create more interest in math as a subject at a largely jock school (and yes, part of my motivation is that it looks good for college).</p>

<p>I know you can do competitions and stuff. I was also thinking of offering math tutoring and maybe getting the club together for a service project as something unrelated to math. Any other ideas?</p>

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<p>most clubs have competitions. i'm actually president of my chapter. We are not official, so most of the time I tutor in different subjects and help my friends when they need it.</p>

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<p>We go to state competitions and I'm about to start math tutoring at my chapter.</p>

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<p>We go to Regionals, Invitationals, and the State competition.</p>

<p>We usually just have meetings for key things, such as the competitions and generic stuff like fundraising for bus money.</p>

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<p>Haha. I'm in Mu Alpha Theta !</p>

<p>Start one.
Last year I competed in Geometry, and won an award. It was the biggest deal. I got 9th out of 78 and that was like the only award our school has won in like 20 years in Geometry Algebra II or Algebra I. The only time we ever win things is if someone competes in Statistics or Calculus.</p>

<p>But yeah the competitions are really fun, especially after. We rarely ever stay for awards, mostly cause, we never win anything.</p>

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<p>I'm pretty sure it's called MATH club, but in my schools mu alpha theta is basically a place to get math tutors.</p>

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<p>No, its not called Math club. That's not Mu Alpha Theta then ^.</p>

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<p>i was in mu alpha theta..but then our teacher got too busy this year...so now there isn't even a club..but i think i might ask my dad to sponser it instead ( he is a math teacher at my school)..and basically what we did was do math problems..and do the contests at our own school..though no one really cared about it at our school..so we basically all sucked..:)</p>

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<p>MAT=Mu Alpha Theta, not MATH-typo :]</p>

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<p>I just type MAO since O is close to theta.</p>

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<p>Yeah O is a lot closer than T lol...
They should have greek letters on all keyboards! It would be so handy... lol.</p>

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<p>You could always do practice problems...old competitions and such. That is, if you can find students who feel like getting together a couple times a month to do them. You'll probably have a small hardcore group of students who will and a generally apathetic majority. Also, mock team rounds are nice because then you're not completely clueless at the real event.</p>

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<p>That's the thing...it would be very hard to find a dedicated group of kids. We'll see how it goes.</p>

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<p>you only need four :)
(preferably in each subject, but if it's just your subject that's cool too)
you could probably get your friends to join, etc</p>

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I just type MAO since O is close to theta.

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<p>First thing that came to my mind was the dude's picture on tiananmen square.</p>

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<p>All we do at Mu Alpha Theta at my school is offer math tutoring.</p>