Dear Math Enthusiast,
Frequently, there comes a time in a math team's competition schedule
when there are few contests coming up and the attention of team
members begins to wander. Another problem many teams face is the need
to raise money to pay for their contest registration fees. National
Assessment & Testing offers a way to solve both problems and give
something back to your local mathematics community: The Middlementary
Math Bonanza, a face-to-face math competition that your high-school
math team can administer for local elementary and middle school
students.
Administering this math competition is a terrific service your math
team can provide to your community, giving young students an
opportunity to be recognized for mathematical excellence and giving
them a venue in which to share their excitement about mathematics
with their peers from other schools. These young students may go on
to be members of your high school math team one day, and may in turn
help administer a contest for the next generation of mathematicians.
In addition, your high school students will gain valuable experience
by administering the competition. Whether recruiting participating
schools, publicizing the event in local media, organizing logistics,
procuring supplies, or proctoring tests, this may be the first time
that your students have worked on a large project that mattered to
many other people.
Furthermore, administering a local math competition can reduce or
eliminate your team's fundraising needs. It is often quite difficult
to get monetary support from your school for the many registration
fees and travel expenses involved in attending contests. Rather than
selling candy or coupon books, administering a local math competition
is something your math team is uniquely qualified to do, which can be
done once during the year and can earn your team a significant
portion of your annual budget.
The Middlementary Math Bonanza comes with everything a first-time
contest host could need. We provide proctor instructions, tests,
answer sheets, answer keys, and solutions of the same high quality as
those for our national high school competitions. In addition, press
releases, invitations, and donation solicitation letters are provided
to help you build participation and support for your event. We also
provide registration forms and scoring spreadsheets to simplify
management of student and team data. Finally, we provide schedules,
test reproduction instructions, and documents with advice on
concessions, staffing, awards, registration fees, and other important
topics.
The Middlementary Math Bonanza has tests in five divisions for
fourth through eighth grades. In each division, there is a
thirty-problem Individual Test, a twenty-problem Mental Math test,
and four ten-problem team tests in the topics of Algebra, Geometry,
Probability, and Potpourri. All tests cover a wide range of topics
and difficulties to provide both confidence and challenges to
students of all abilities. Individual awards can be given based on
the individual test, team awards can be given based on the sum of the
Mental Math, Algebra, Geometry, Probability, and Potpourri test
scores, and school awards can be given in Elementary and Middle
School divisions based on the sums of their highest team score in
each grade level 4-6 or 7-8.
The cost for your school to acquire the materials for the
Middlementary Math Bonanza is just two hundred dollars. You will
receive all of the materials described above, which you can use as
they are or can modify to suit your needs (alter the schedule, change
the date, alter the fee structure, etc.). If you charge a registration
fee of ten dollars per student (which is quite common), you will
recoup the two hundred dollar price of the materials as soon as the
first team of four students registers in each division. Between the
registration of additional teams, your concession activities, and
donations from the community, your team should be able to raise
hundreds of dollars to support its competition schedule.
You can currently register online for the 2008 version of the
Middlementary Math Bonanza at
http://www.natassessment.com/reg_form.htm.
Please contact me at this address or by phone at (206) 433-7320 if
you have questions about this or any of our contests.
Thank you,
Tom Clymer
Director of Academic Competitions
National Assessment & Testing
http://www.natassessment.com
P.S. The problems for the third round of the USAMTS competition have
been posted, as have the solutions to the problems from the first
round. Both can be found at
http://www.usamts.org/Problems/U_Problems.php. Even if your students
have not participated in previous rounds, they may compete in
subsequent rounds of the USAMTS competition.
P.P.S. The preliminary AMC8 school honor roll is beginning to be
published at
http://www.unl.edu/amc/e-exams/e4-amc08/e4-1-8archive/2007-8a/2007-amc8schHonorRoll.shtml.
Keep checking the site as more results are posted to see what teams in
your area you can congratulate!
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