24 Club starts again and is meeting Fridays at 7:50 am

By Ryan Gregware, Staff Reporter

COLONIAL SCHOOL — The 24 Club has started again and is meeting every Friday at 7:50 am.

24 is a math game. The point of it is to get 24 using addition, subtraction, division and multiplication using four numbers on a card. When answering, you must give what would be the last equation first and then the equations leading up to it. For example, a real card has 9, 3, 4 and 1. So you answer like this:

• 23 + 1 = 24
• 9 x 3 = 27
• 27 – 4 = 23
• 23 + 1 = 24

The cards in the 24 game are rated one, two and three dots. The easy ones have one dot. In the middle are cards with two dots, and the hard ones have three dots. Cards have four numbers on both sides, with the red side harder than the white side. The easiest combinations are the white sides of one dots and the hardest are the red sides three-dot cards.

This year something new was added to 24. It’s called firstinmath.com, which is a website to play  the game on. At the end of the week, the site awards those with the highest scores a necklace. You get to keep this necklace until next the week, when others get them.

Ashhab Khan, one of Colonial’s top 24 players and a student in 5V, said, “I love playing 24. I feel great when I play. I really love the online program. I have won the necklace two weeks in a row and I want to again.”

The advisers for the 24 Club are Mrs. Linda Carlson and Mr. Ron Martucci, both fourth grade teachers.

“I am really exited about running it,” said Mrs. Carlson. “If we keep on practicing. I know we can win.”

Mr. Martucci said, “I have always been interested in it. Every year I would go down and watch the tournament. I am glad that I’m doing this.”

This story also appears on the Colonial Times website.