Math Club Fun at LCS
By: Russell Gordon and Joe McRae
What pursuit is creative, fun, and spurs vigorous conversation that makes time pass in a flash?
If you answered “mathematics”, then you are probably fortunate enough to have been provided – at some point in your life – with the space, time, and encouragement to approach the field with a sense of play and curiosity.
That is precisely the spirit with which the LCS Math Club operates.
A keen group of LCS students meets weekly for 90 minutes, trying out puzzles from the inestimable Martin Gardner (an American popular mathematics and popular science writer), sometimes building figures like rhombic dodecahedrons and deltoidal icositetrahedrons, and discussing approaches for solving interesting questions from past math contests.
When the calendar turns to late winter and early spring, it is contest season. Math Club members have the opportunity to check their skills against a worldwide cohort of the most dedicated student mathematicians.
Our students have participated in contests organized by the University of Waterloo and the Mathematical Association of America, earning several Certificates of Achievement (results in the top 25% of all participants worldwide), a team certificate for the highest score in our geographic region of Ontario, and several truly outstanding individual results.
Math Club members look forward to continuing to pursue mathematics for fun as the year unfolds, and are grateful that we have been able to do so together, safely, on campus at LCS, in this most unusual school year.
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4391 County Road 29, Lakefield Ontario K0L 2H0 705.652.3324 admissions@lcs.on.ca
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We respectfully acknowledge that Lakefield College School is located on the Treaty 20 Michi Saagiig territory and in the traditional territory of the Michi Saagiig and Chippewa Nations, collectively known as the Williams Treaties First Nations, which include: Curve Lake, Hiawatha, Alderville, Scugog Island, Rama, Beausoleil, and Georgina Island First Nations. Lakefield College School respectfully acknowledges that the Williams Treaties First Nations are the stewards and caretakers of these lands and waters in perpetuity and that they continue to maintain this responsibility to ensure their health and integrity for generations to come.
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