School Pictures 2010

OMSI

Oregon Museum of Science and Industry

It is second only to heaven for Aspies.

Apparently, all the practice reading in this position is preparing him for future space missions.

Cameron was the only child - ours and the many others we saw - who did not use guesswork and random amounts of air and water. Needless to say, he slammed his water rocket against the top of the tower on his first try.

I have seen the future.

We Parents Don't Have A Chance!

So, Cameron just took the TONI-3. That is, "Test of Non-verbal Intelligence, 3rd edition." Long after I had finished trying to silently figure out the answers, even after I had given up analyzing why the answer that was marked right even made sense, he was still going. He got a standard score of 150, percentile rank of >99, and age equivalent of greater than 17 years, 9 months (it didn't measure any higher than that; it just tells us he's beyond what the test measures).

(Update: His daily note from his teacher today - perfect behavior scores, BTW - said, "He figured out the Fibonacci sequence today. What a mathematician!" Yep, got me again. I had to go look it up.)

Problem Solving

What in the world is it?

It's someone making himself a tent so his DSi is shaded & he has something to do other than watch soccer!

???

We can't explain - but we find the laugh contagious.

Exploring the Galaxy with a real telescope

Cameron and Dad were finally able to use some of their "online" telescope time. This allows you to use one of 3 observatories in the world. These photos were all taken from the Canary Islands. Cameron's mind was racing when we finished up after a very late bedtime. However, the pictures speak for themselves and were how they looked as of 3-20/2010.

More Things From Third Grade

"If 99 times 99 is 9801, then 9.9 times 9.9 is 98 and one one-hundredth."

This from the kid who asked to take a level to class to level his desk; he's tired of his pencil rolling away. (We let him take one; we'll see what his teacher says. lol)

Today, he got in a little bit of trouble because they had a lesson on symmetry, and he refused to stop working on his project when it was time to move on.

A Perfect Lesson

Cameron just got done teaching me that a "perfect number is a number that is equal to the sum of its positive divisors." What 3rd grader knows that?! What grade schooler even understands that?!

Now, he and Michael are looking up different types of numbers on Wikipedia: perfect numbers, abundant numbers (sum of divisors is greater than two times the number), semi-perfect number (a positive integer that is equal to the sum of all or some of its proper divisors), super perfect number . . . and so on.