The Mr.Collins we meet at the beginning of this book is stern, loud and frustrated. Why? Simply because when you work at a school where no one in your entire math class tries, then your passion for teaching slowly leaks out of you. One afternoon Collins can't take it anymore, so he makes a proposal to his class.
His proposal was a risk. It could turn around every ones attitude and bring everyone together. Mr.Collins tells the class that he is starting a math club. All students are invited to come after school. The first few meeting consist of only a few kids. What will they be doing? Collins has cleverly put together a group to help him build a tetrahedron. A tetrahedron is a triangular pyramid. Carefully put together, a tetrahedron adds one pyramid to each side in each new layer.
The different kids that have been brought together would surely start a fight. Collins is very careful with supervision, but when someone breaks the large half-built pyramid, enough supervision wasn't given. Will all the kids come back together and rebuild the math statue? If they do accomplish this then they could all be in the world record book. What do you do when everyone has given up hope all hope in you?
