American Math Challenge 2012--Registrations open now

The American Math Challenge 2012 It's FREE and FUN, for all schools and students, K-12 REGISTRATIONS OPEN NOW PRACTICE FOR ALL STUDENTS STARTS MONDAY OCT. 8th FULL COMPETITION EVENT ON October 16-17th, 2012 Dear Micki,   Schools and students across America are currently registering to compete in the 2012 American Math Challenge! Will YOUR school or class be on this year's Hall of Fame? REGISTER TODAY and get your students EXCITED! about MATH!    It's FUN, it's completely FREE and there are prizes to be won!   REGISTER HERE! GETTING STARTED IS EASY! 1. Register your e-mail at www.americanmathchallenge.com.  We recommend using a personal email address for the fastest and easiest registration. (You only need one registration to secure a spot for your whole school!) 2. Wait for a confirmation link via e-mail. Click this link to let us know your registration is valid. 3. You will be taken back to our site to enter all of your school information. Once your school is registered, you will get a SCHOOL ADMIN login to upload any number of students, classes, and teachers to your Registered School Account Students will compete in the American Math Challenge using Mathletics, an online Math program. They will be tackling adaptive curriculum-based math questions and competing against other real student peers in timed mental math showdowns---all for great prizes!   Questions? Email us here! See you at the Challenge! The American Math Challenge Team 3P Learning USA info@americanmathchallenge.com  1.866.387.9139

Friday Funny--Home School Electives

Salt Labyrinth Art Work...and art idea

I found out about the art if Motoi Yamamoto somewhere and really wanted to share it. It's very cool especially the his work with salt! Yup, plain old salt. He makes it anything but plain.

That's just one of his many salt works! He would started working in salt after his sister died from brain cancer. When the display is over, he asks that the salt be returned to the sea. Here's an article about him.
Here's a video of him making one of his pieces. It's really cool to watch.

I think it would be fun to attempt a salt labyrinth for the fun of making art out of a different medium. Or what about using flour instead of salt? It might be fun to do if your studying minataurs and labyrinths or NaCl in chemistry!
Here is Motoi Yamamoto's website if you'd like to see more.