{"id":943,"date":"2021-01-06T22:55:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T22:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/thompson-odyssey\/?page_id=943"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:01:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:01:35","slug":"math-challengers-club","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/thompson-odyssey\/math-challengers-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Math Challengers Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Math Challengers is a student-led club that develops mathematical abilities in Odyssey &amp; other mathematically inclined students for math competitions. It builds problem-solving skills and prepares students for the many different math contests offered to Odyssey &amp; other mathematically inclined students, most notably the Math Challengers competition, which is held annually for students in grades 8 to 10. Club meetings are held weekly and consist of comprehensive lessons and the occasional Kahoot session presented by the top previous contestants at our school.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Teacher Sponsor: Ms. Rieder<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/thompson-odyssey\/math-competitions\/\">Click on this link to see our Math and Physic competition results!<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The students and the staff attending the Math Challengers Competition at UBC.\u00a0 A great way to get out there and have some fun!<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-950\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/thompson-odyssey\/files\/2021\/01\/Math-Challengers-Feb-2019-1-4-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/thompson-odyssey\/files\/2021\/01\/Math-Challengers-Feb-2019-1-4-scaled.jpg 2560w, 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It builds problem-solving skills and prepares students for the many different math contests offered to Odyssey &amp; other mathematically inclined students, most notably the Math Challengers competition, which is held annually for students in grades &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/thompson-odyssey\/math-challengers-club\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Math Challengers Club&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-943","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/thompson-odyssey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/thompson-odyssey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/thompson-odyssey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/thompson-odyssey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/thompson-odyssey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/thompson-odyssey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2299,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/thompson-odyssey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/943\/revisions\/2299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/thompson-odyssey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}