Well before a championship, sports scientists and coaches start to prepare the athlete by developing a 'competition model', based on what they expect will be the winning times.
Roll-call: The event will be roll-called in divided regions 40 minutes ahead of the starting time. For elite athletes, roll-call will be done in specified call room.
One policy invited states to compete for federal dollars using tests and other methods to measure teachers, a philosophy that would not be welcome in Finland.
In February Watson, a supercomputer devised by IBM, trounced two human champions at "Jeopardy!", an American quiz show renowned for the way its clues are laden with ambiguity, irony, riddles and puns.
Schools or teachers who sign up for the National Math Club receive a kit full of activities and resources, but there's no special teacher training and no competition attached.
The only initiative in the field that he does not welcome is a competition which a Swiss-based foundation launched to choose the “seven new wonders of the world” by electronic ballot.