{"id":5395,"date":"2010-10-05T10:37:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T15:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=5395"},"modified":"2010-10-12T08:04:38","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T13:04:38","slug":"math-competition-starts-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/10\/math-competition-starts-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Math competition starts this month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first contest in a series of free nationwide online math competitions hosted by Brock&#8217;s Department of Mathematics will take place this month.<\/p>\n<p>There are six Caribou math contests, known collectively as the Caribou Cup. The competition is for students in Grades 3 to 8 at any school in Canada, including home schools.<\/p>\n<p>Students participate online under the supervision of a teacher or librarian. They have one hour to complete the 24 multiple-choice question tests. Marking is done automatically. Participants are eligible for cash prizes, and a portion of the funds are awarded to the student\u2019s school.<\/p>\n<p>The first contest will be Oct. 13 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Upcoming contests for the 2010\/11 school year will be on Nov. 17, Jan. 19, Feb. 16, April 20 and May 18.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/caribou\" target=\"_blank\">brocku.ca\/caribou<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Caribou math competition tests students across Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[91],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5395"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5521,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395\/revisions\/5521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}