Gee Wiz!
I don’t like math.
My distaste for anything arithmetic, trigonometric or statistical may have lessened through the years but overall, I still avoid them like the plague.
Comparatively, my wife considerably has a higher aptitude and tolerance in the subject but I know she’s no great lover of math either.
Love math? It’s just not in my genes.
So you could just imagine the look in my face when Joshua gave us a letter from his school inviting him to join the 2009 MTAP.
The MTAP-DepEd-NCR Saturday Program is a course for mathematically talented students offered to the top 15% of the students for every grade/year level from Grade One in the Elementary to Fourth Year in High School in each participating school.
The MTAP aims to provide students the opportunity to do math activities with some explorations without the threat of examinations, prepare for the 2010 Math Challenge and for the concerned students, entrance tests for 1st year High School and College, respectively.
There are 7 sessions all in all to be given to the participants. Each Saturday which is made up of roughly two sessions runs from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30p.m. In Mater Carmeli School, the sessions started last Nov. 14. The last sessions shall be given on December 12.
The school charged a fee of 250 pesos for the whole program, an amount I didn’t think twice of spending on my child’s advance education. Since his school bus service operator didn’t offer any services for the concerned weekend, I had to bring him to school, wonder around nearby Robinson’s and SM malls like a zombie for hours and then pick him up by mid afternoon. Tiring? Yes! But it was all worth it!
I’ve always believed that parents should support their children’s forte when opportunities knock on our door. For Junior it was obviously music. For Sonny, it was basketball and now karate. For Joshua, would it be math? Who knows?
Joshua attends the MTAP sessions at his school
A math wizard in the Mendoza family? Maybe too early to tell.
But the idea just got possible….and brought a big smile in my face.
Postscript:
Mater Carmeli School (MCS) – Novaliches during the last National Achievement Test (NAT) of Grade 6 students (SY 2008 -2009) ranked 16th overall among the top 30% of private schools in Quezon City.
For the math test results, MCS - Novaliches placed 15th.
My distaste for anything arithmetic, trigonometric or statistical may have lessened through the years but overall, I still avoid them like the plague.
Comparatively, my wife considerably has a higher aptitude and tolerance in the subject but I know she’s no great lover of math either.
Love math? It’s just not in my genes.
So you could just imagine the look in my face when Joshua gave us a letter from his school inviting him to join the 2009 MTAP.
The MTAP-DepEd-NCR Saturday Program is a course for mathematically talented students offered to the top 15% of the students for every grade/year level from Grade One in the Elementary to Fourth Year in High School in each participating school.
The MTAP aims to provide students the opportunity to do math activities with some explorations without the threat of examinations, prepare for the 2010 Math Challenge and for the concerned students, entrance tests for 1st year High School and College, respectively.
There are 7 sessions all in all to be given to the participants. Each Saturday which is made up of roughly two sessions runs from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30p.m. In Mater Carmeli School, the sessions started last Nov. 14. The last sessions shall be given on December 12.
The school charged a fee of 250 pesos for the whole program, an amount I didn’t think twice of spending on my child’s advance education. Since his school bus service operator didn’t offer any services for the concerned weekend, I had to bring him to school, wonder around nearby Robinson’s and SM malls like a zombie for hours and then pick him up by mid afternoon. Tiring? Yes! But it was all worth it!
I’ve always believed that parents should support their children’s forte when opportunities knock on our door. For Junior it was obviously music. For Sonny, it was basketball and now karate. For Joshua, would it be math? Who knows?
Joshua attends the MTAP sessions at his schoolA math wizard in the Mendoza family? Maybe too early to tell.
But the idea just got possible….and brought a big smile in my face.
Postscript:
Mater Carmeli School (MCS) – Novaliches during the last National Achievement Test (NAT) of Grade 6 students (SY 2008 -2009) ranked 16th overall among the top 30% of private schools in Quezon City.
For the math test results, MCS - Novaliches placed 15th.
Labels: Family
posted by Ferddie'sWorld at
4:57 PM
1 Comments:
i looove it.. wow!! ang galing ni josh s math.. sakto,, yun ang kahinaan ko e.. ahahah!! tito,, papatutor ako kay josh ah.. ehehhe!! missyou all.. :)
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pia, at 7:17 PM, December 09, 2009
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