Hmmm, we don't have any math related club in our school. I and the coach look for smart students and try to talk them into UIL. It's very unorganizational; as long as I or the coach have practice material ready and everybody has time, we can call a practice any time.
Now that you've mentioned it, I am kind of interested in what people do in their math club. Brad, why don't you start another thread in Texasmath? What do you do in your club?
We have a UIL science club where we practice for an hour every week. We do problems for about 45 min and then play with dry ice or make smores on the bunsen burner for the rest of the time. :D
There isn't really a math club since I and a guy who graduated in '06 are the only ones interested. This year there is a new uil coordinator who seems competitive about UIL so it would be cool if things got more organized.. I could teach NS
About the new coordinator.. after our first uil science meeting, he talked to me about ns and asked me how I've learned stuff. I said i've gotten all my knowledge off the web and said the high school doesn't have any textbooks (he asked me about "the book" ) or meetings for NS. He looked at me as if he really genuinely felt sorry for me which was kind of odd.
Goodness, you at least get to play with dry ice! Nobody gives a damn here. There were some pretty good people winning national science fair last year (one seemed to have won with his asteroid project and went to U of Arizona) but they were kind of socially awkward so that neither them (who have the passion) nor us (who can do the math) really tried to get anything together. Last year, PreAP Physics was another disaster. The teacher was a wonderfully smart man, but it was a horrible class and he cannot control his students as effectively due to his age. Also, it was not until the middle of the 2nd six week b4 everybody could get textbooks (talking about ridiculousness). So he had to start really really slow. But when all was ready, it was by then too hard to speed up; so we snailed over the whole year. My point is, despite the teacher and several Asian students' wish, nobody learnt anything last year.
Our uil coord. here is the theatre/speech teacher so she's got her own stuff to worry about. She seemed to have enough confidence in me to let me handle the whole ns thing.
Your sponsor was just making an assumption that there should be a book, but really there is a textbook. It's by Don Skow and I believe you must have heard about it.
It's good that you guys keep practicing. I'll have to get me and my team in shape once this cross-country thing is over.
I've heard of Don Skow's book ("no sense in no. sense" i think? clever title) but when he talked about it sounded like he thought that was the only way to learn NS... Maybe the book has some stuff I've never seen before, but math-magic's database + this forum is pretty comprehensive. He seems like a cool guy though, so he should get stuff done. I hope we can go to TMSCA state, but we'll need funding for a long bus ride and overnight stay...
Don Skow's book's good for starters, but I think that except some geometric formulae, everything else is on this website. Plus, we can all find the pattern and figure out shortcuts ourselves.
I'm trying to convince my coach and coordinator to go to TMSCA State too. Neither of them seem to like having it on Spring Break weekends, but we'll see.
) or meetings for NS. He looked at me as if he really genuinely felt sorry for me which was kind of odd. 
