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Math Competitions & Math Resources Ran Li

Math Competitions Math Kangaroo AMC Mathcounts Mathleague. org/ARML Math Olympiad (Elementary, Middle School, High School) • Bay Area Math Olympiad (BAMO) • Berkeley mini Math Tournament (Bm. MT) • • •

Mathkangaroo • • • National competition Test at student grade level – suggest for all grade level Target more on concepts 75 min, 24 -30 questions Once/year on 3 rd Thursday in March each year This year test date is 3/17/2016 Location -- At Thomas Hart Middle School this year Run by parent volunteers Link: http: //www. mathkangaroo. org/mk/default. html

Mathcounts • Middle School students Only • Primary school as a unit – home schools can participate • CACC cannot form a team • Sprint, Target, Team rounds + countdown round for fun • Chapter competition in Feb • State competition in March

American Math Competition (AMC) • AMC 8 – once per year, in November 25 Qs/40 min • AMC 10/12 – twice per year (A/B), in February Take both A & B • AMC 10 AIME USAJMO Awards • AMC 12 AIME USAMO MOSP IMO

Mathleague. Org • 3 level sections -- Elementary (grades 3 -6), Middle School (grades 6 -8) & High School (grades 9 -12) • Website: mathleague. org • Usually once a month • For middle school -- Mathcounts format – good for students to practice for Mathcounts • Has to be own school team (CACC cannot form a team) • http: //mathleague. org/ms. php -- register self online

Math Olympiad (MO) • 2 Divisions – team only, up to 35 students -- Elementary (MOEMS, E division) – grades 4 -6 -- Middle (MOEMS, M division) – grades 6 -8 • 5 monthly contests, 5 questions at each contest, specific time limit for each question • Online grade entry by organizers • CACC math program offers such contest in class • http: //www. moems. org/

Bay Area Math Olympiad (BAMO) • • • BAMO 8, BAMO 12 4 hour, 4 -5 problem proof-based competition Individual, no team Yearly, in February Harvest Park, Mr. Lomas http: //www. bamo. org/

Berkeley Math Tournament 1) Berkeley Mini Math Tournament (Bm. MT) – in Nov yearly • mainly for middle school students • 5 students per team 2) Berkeley Math Tournament (BMT) – in March yearly • mainly for high school students • 6 -8 students per team (more rounds) ********************* --- on UC Berkeley Campus --- fun, well organized, good practice --- *** CACC CAN form a team – CACC register together

Math Activities/Classes • *** Art of Problem Solving (Ao. PS) Resources Alcumus (a self paced, computerized, free program for many middle school students) http: //www. artofproblemsolving. com/ • A* math league-- math classes (Pleasanton, Santa Clara) • Awesomemath – all year round math • Pleasanton Math Circle (PMC) • Berkeley Math Circle (BMC) • Stanford Math Circle (SMC) • San Jose Math Circle http: //www. pleasantonmathcircle. com/home. html

Summer Math Camp • • • A* Math League Awesome. Math Path IDEA Math Zoom

Additional Math Competitions (Middle School) • Mission Math Regional (Mag. Ma. R) – hosted by Mission San Jose High School Math Club -- Team of 4 students -- CACC can form teams http: //www. msjmath. com/magmar. html • Purple Comet – online competition (volunteer? ) http: //purplecomet. org/

Additional Math Competitions (High School) • Santa Clara Math Tournament • Mandelbrot (at school site only) • A Star Math Tournament (ASMT) – replace for Stanford Math Tournament (SMT) • Caltech-Harvey Mudd Math Tournament (CHMMT) • Harvard-MIT Math Tournament (HMMT) • Other --NIMO (national internet math olympiad, http: //internetolympiad. org/), math madness, Princeton Math Competition, Purple Comet, …