Tuesday, February 25, 2014

The Finale at Hoover


Schedule for March 1 - Hoover High School Math Tournament
 
6:00 Meet in front of Cullman Middle to board bus

7:00  – 7:30 am Eat at Chick-fil-A on Walker’s Chapel Road

8:00   Registration

8:45 – 10:00  7th Pre-Algebra (Practice Gym) and 8th Algebra I Ciphering (Competition Gym)

10:00 – 10:30  Refreshments (cafeteria)

10:30 – 11:45  7th and 8th Grade Written Test

12:15 – 1:45  Lunch (STIX – Galleria Circle)  They are going to let the kids order from the kid's menu if they want.  I would send about $25 just to cover breakfast and lunch.  I have reserved 45 seats.  We should have about 34 students attending so there should be a few extra seats for parents. 

1:45 – Bus leaves from STIX

2:15 - Awards in competition gym.

Return to CMS at approximately 4:30 pm.

Sunday, February 23, 2014

Cullman 7th Graders Shine at Pizitz

The seventh grade team had an OUTSTANDING day at Pizitz in many facets:

1.  1st Place Team. 3 more points and we would have been 2nd overall.  When you
     think about it that is just one more test problem or ciphering problem for someone. 
2.  Tied for 1st with Liberty Middle in Ciphering (64 Wow!) We almost meet our goal of 70. 
3.  Five individual places out of 10 (Colton 2nd, Matthew 3rd, Daniel 6th, Joseph 8th, Blake 10th)
4.  Everyone working hard and discussing problems during ciphering.  That is how you learn, by talking through and helping your teammates understand the problems. 
5.  Many had their highest score this year.
6.  Great sportsmanship during the awards.  I love to see you all cheer each other on. 
7.  Terrific support from our parents.  You will never know just how much it means to our team to have you in the stands and at ciphering.  It will mean so much to your kids later on when they remember you being there.

Also, congratulations to outstanding performances by Nik (great score of 78), Cameron and Eli for the 8th grade.  The team placed fourth, but these guys did very well on a difficult test.  One more week to reclaim first place at Hoover and finish the season STRONG!  Only one more week to represent Cullman as a CMS Math Teamer.  Give it your all.  Can't wait to see how you finish next week at Hoover.

I am attaching the 7th grade results so you can see just how stellar a performance the team had on Saturday.  It is hard to describe until you see the list of teams.


2014 Pizitz - 7th Grade Overall Results
Place Name Score  
1 Discovery Middle School (Bob Jones) 398 First - Div. II
2 Simmons Middle School (Hoover) 357 Colton 2nd
3 Bumpus Middle School (Hoover) 356 Matthew 3rd
4 Cullman Middle School (1st Place Div II) 355 Daniel 6th
5 Berry Middle School (Hoover) 351 Joseph 8th
6 Liberty Middle School (Bob Jones) 351 Blake 10th 
7 Homewood 314  
8 Mountain Brook Jr. High 300 Ciphering
9 Jefferson Middle (TN)  299 Cullman 64
10 Chamblee (GA) 288 Liberty 64
11 Montford 252 Tied for 1st 
12 Oak Mountain 247  
13 Randolph (Private-Huntsville) 229  
14 Briarwood (Private-Birmingham) 228  
15 Muscle Shoals 226  
16 Liberty Park (Vestavia Hills) 214  
17 Altamont School 203  
18 Cedar Ridge (Decatur) 195  
19 Arab Junior High 190  
20 North Jefferson 152  
21 Elizabeth Cobb 147  
22 Clay Chalkville 129  
23 Eva Junior High 111  
24 Highlands School 99  
25 Covenant Christian Academy 86  
26 Brookwood (Tuscaloosa) 52  
27 Hewitt Trussville 46  
28 Calera  38  
29 Echols 38  
30 Pleasant Grove 22  
31 Thompson 16  
32 Brighton -11  
Ciphering
1 Cullman Middle School 64 1st - Overall
2 Liberty Middle (Madison) 64 Colton
3 Homewood 51 Joseph
3 Discovery (Madison) 51 Daniel
      Blake




Tuesday, February 18, 2014

2014 ALA-LA-MISS Awards

Congratulations to our ALA-LA-MISS winners Matthew Smith (7th Grade) and Nik Hartwig (8th Grade).  The tri-state test was a 30 minute, 35 question test on various math concepts.  Proud of the effort put in on the test today.  Anytime you can take a timed test, it is good practice for the ACT and other college tests.  It is a good kind of pressure and good practice.

The ALA-LA-MISS school scores should be sent in the next few weeks so we know how we compared in the tri-state competition as well as our North Alabama region.

8th Grade Awards
Nik Hartwig - 28
Jordan Ray - 27
Mallory Johnson - 27
Julien Chalkley - 27
Madison Hunkeapillar - 27
Eli Wilhite - 27
Cameron Cottingham - 26

Team Score - 136 (top 5 students)

7th Grade Awards
Matthew Smith - 28
Blake Spradlin - 27
Daniel Vance - 26
Jozi Jackson - 25
Lauren NcAnally - 25 
Jennifer Jester - 24
Joseph Harbin - 24

Team score - 131 (top 5 students)

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Pizitz Math Tournament - Feb. 22

Pizitz Schedule:

6:00 Meet in front of Cullman Middle to board bus

7:00  – 7:30 am Eat at Chick-fil-A on Walker’s Chapel Road

8:00   Registration

8:30 – 9:45 8th Grade Written Exam – 7th Ciphering in Gym

9:45– 10:15  Refreshments (cafeteria)

10:15 – 11:30  7th Grade Written Exam – 8th Grade Ciphering in Gym

11:30 – 1:50 Lunch (Brookwood Mall)

1:50 – Bus leaves from Brookwood Mall  (Be on time)

2:30 - Awards in Gym. (Hope to see all our parents there for awards.  We love our parents!)

Return to CMS at approximately 4:30 pm.

Our competition at Piztiz will be tough (Muscle Shoals, Chamblee, Jefferson Middle, Briarwood, etc).  Study more than ever these next two to three weeks.  We need you at your BEST for the team to be at their BEST.  Let's finish STRONG!

Look over ALL THINGS PIZITZ and HOOVER HIGHLIGHTS and TTK Sheets often.

Saturday, February 1, 2014

Amazing Day at Albertville!

Today was definitely our best TEAM effort: FIRST place in both 7th and 8th grades, winning the ciphering competition, Blake gets 22 of 25 ciphering points, taking home 16 of 20 individual awards, our parents there to cheer us on, four placing for the first time, breakfast at Jack's, eating a nice lunch together, snacks at Jet-Pep and a great bus ride home.  So proud of every single math teamer today.  It was a FUN day of math and spending time with good friends.

Also, congrats to all the CHS teams for placing first.  It was good to see our former math teamers doing so well. 

Click here for  2014 Albertville Results

8th Grade
1st Cullman 195
2nd West Point 146
3rd Albertville 84
4th Fairview 44
5th West Point 10
6th Boaz 9
7th Priceville 6

Individual Awards
1st Jordan Ray
4th Carley Byerley
5th Sam Lowery
6th Trevor Richards
7th Tucker Adkison
8th Mallory Johnson
9th Julien Chalkley
10th Cameron Cottingham
11th Ian Messersmith
11th Nik Hartwig
15th Madison Hunkeapillar
16th Colby Hutson
18th Conner Burnham
27th Clay Conway



7th Grade
1st Cullman 362
2nd West Point 245
3rd Albertville 167
4th Fairview 163

Individual Awards
1st Daniel Vance
2nd Colton Smith
3rd Matthew Smith
4th Blake Spradlin
6th Jakob Easterwood
8th Joseph Harbin
9th Dylon Wallace
10th Avery Barnett
11th Curt Wilson
12th Sam Ratliff
14th Jozi Jackson
16th Luke Andrews
18th Coco Eddleman
20th Lauren McAnally
22nd Piper Hempfling
37th Michael Brown
39th Lukas Gipson
40th Seth Gable
Sam, Jennifer, Sy

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Upcoming Tournaments:  Pizitz Feb. 22 and Hoover March 1
Feb. 18 - ALA-LA-MISS Test in class
April 1 - 6th Grade Math Contest at East and West
April 1 - Math Team Celebration at Stonebridge Farms
April 15 - 6th Grade Ciphering at CMS (top 30 competing for top 22 for 2014-2015 7th grade math)