<p>hey guys,</p>
<p>are there any available math competitions out there, espeically in Connecticut? I don't mean Olympiad level. I've never competed in a math competition, so I want to start out with something more my level and to start with. I've taken all math level up to AP Calculus AB.</p>
<p>oh, i don’t mean this spring. I mean any math competitions this fall and spring.</p>
<p>these are the funnest contests ever. and the most famous.
[American</a> Mathematics Contest 12 - AMC 12](<a href=“http://www.unl.edu/amc/e-exams/e6-amc12/amc12.shtml]American”>http://www.unl.edu/amc/e-exams/e6-amc12/amc12.shtml)
[AMC</a> 10 - American Mathematics Contest 10](<a href=“http://www.unl.edu/amc/e-exams/e5-amc10/amc10.shtml]AMC”>http://www.unl.edu/amc/e-exams/e5-amc10/amc10.shtml)</p>
<p>thanks…is there anything else? i don’t think the school i go to is crazy about math and there isn’t a math team that i can join.</p>
<p>[List</a> of mathematics competitions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math_competition]List”>List of mathematics competitions - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>There seems to be a Connecticut State Association of Mathematics Leagues, which would be your best bet for joining a league. I can’t find a website for them, though, so you’ll probably have to ask at school.</p>
<p>Other things you might try:
<p>thanks guys! if there’s more, please let me know!</p>
<p>We are in Texas but my D has gone to math contests sponsored by Rice and Texas A&M. So maybe you could check the websites of nearby universities to see if any of them sponsor math contests for high school students. My D also had the problem of her school not having a math team but we appealed to the principal and one of the math teachers agreed to monitor the AMC test and another group test recently. I paid some of the fees and my D organized a fundraiser to pay for other fees. You can also try to take the AMC and Mandelbrot tests at a nearby participating school. You can just email the school math department and ask. Finally there are some summer camps that focus on math competitions that you could check out. Unfortunately I don’t know of any in CT.</p>
<p>Oh, right, university contests! The one nearest you (which also happens to be the biggest) is the Harvard-MIT Math Tournament (HMMT), which happens in February. Because so many students go from all over the east coast, though, you have to register early, I think in the fall, to get a spot. So you should probably look into making a team as soon as school starts in the fall. Princeton also has recently started hosting a tournament in November, but I can’t find any info about the 2008 tournament online.</p>
<p>HMMT’s website is here: [The</a> Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament](<a href=“http://web.mit.edu/hmmt/www/]The”>HMMT)
Even if you don’t go to Boston to compete, the practice problems are extremely good training for AIME/ARML level contests.</p>
<p>the Harvard-MIT Math T. seems to be for olympiad level math ppl, not just someone like me? i just want to make a start, not dying in a math competition on a bunch of problems i can’t do. which one is the easiest so far?</p>
<p>don’t underestimate yourself 
maybe you’re good at these sorts of things and just don’t know it. try some practice problems before you decide you suck. the ones from the amc10 are fun, i guarantee you you’ll be able to do at least two or three even if you are awful. (and even if you’re really good you probably can’t get a perfect score.)
just because you haven’t competed before doesn’t mean you’re worse than the others :)</p>
<p>thanks fizix2, that was inspirtaional and encouraging. thanks guys, i’ll try AMC 12 first and USA mathematical talent search (the one where u spend a month answering questions b4 mailing it in).</p>
<p>Hey, wildchartermage, I’m going to try to get my school’s Mu Alpha Theta to sponsor AMC12 next year, so we can suffer together.</p>
<p>The talent search one sounds so weird… You can use any books you want? Must be crazy hard problems, then.</p>
<p>hey Lunar_years. did u participate in any math competitions b4? do school have to sponsor AMC12 this fall or something?
well…the talent search one sound really good and i think i can solve a few probs.</p>
<p>No, never. I’m pretty much nonfunctional outside the History and English wings, so it’ll be something different for me. We’ve got a math team for a state-level competition, but they never advance. Yeah, I think it’s in the fall. We don’t currently sponsor it, but some of us in Mu Alpha Theta will try to put together a proposal.</p>
<p>Ah, good luck with that!</p>
<p>coooll…my school don’t have anything. NADA. so looks like if nobody’s willing to join in my school, i’ll probably just represent the school myself.
btw, what is MuAplha Theta? sounds greek.</p>
<p>Ah, it’s a math honor society.</p>
<p>mu alpha theta isn’t as fun without a team. so you should try and find other people to compete with. (at least three)</p>
<p>well…i’ll be lucky if i can find any one else in my school, but it doesn’t have to be in school right? Lunar_year and I can team up or something?</p>
<p>bumperrroooooo!!!</p>