Professional Chaperone

If one must be paid to qualify their work as professional, and that payment may be in food and tickets, than I am a Professional Math Club Chaperone!

A few weeks ago, I joined my darling friend who teaches calculus at our high school on a field trip for her Math Club students--the Mathletes.  considering that The Girl was the Math Club president her senior year, I figured that made me the Dowager Countess of Math Club.

Their activity took them to the BYU campus for a performance of Calculus:The Musical.  Yes.  This is a real show.

Actually, the show was hilarious.  And, considering I didn't get even a fraction of the math related humor (see that math pun I just made?), I thought that was a pretty good sign.

Two talented women who either understand math really well, or have memorized the script to the point they made me believe they understood math really well, sang songs about the evolution and creation of higher math as we know it set to modern-ish pop songs.

I giggled at the pop culture side notes and the musicality of the tunes which told the story of Sir Isaac Newton and his adversaries itn eh math world as modern math was developed.

Please don't diss the show based on my review, here.  Remember, the math comprehension was WAY over my head.  But the kids were eating it up!

My favorite part of the chaperoning gig with this group is this group!  How troublesome can Mathletes be?!?  These are some of the best kids in the school.  The adore their teacher.  the appreciate what it means for her to take them to these sorts of fun activities. And they have simple fun together.  All in all, a joyful group to accompany on a bus.

and it was also quite interesting being back on campus after not really spending much time there since graduating myself.  Boy, it has changed.  But then, so have I, I guess.

Me and Bronze Cosmo chillaxin on the bench at BYU.