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 (BmMT)

Mathkangaroo National competition Test at student grade level – suggest for all grade level Target more on concepts 75min, 24-30 questions Once/year on 3rd 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/40min 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 (BmMT) – 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 (AoPS)  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 AwesomeMath Math Path IDEA Math Math Zoom

Additional Math Competitions (Middle School) Mission Math Regional (MagMaR) – 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, …