<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
AMC</a> 10 - American Mathematics Contest 10</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>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:
- USA Mathematical Talent Search (<a href="http://www.usamts.org):%5B/url%5D">www.usamts.org):</a> proof-based problems you do at home without a time limit and mail in solutions
- The iTest (<a href="http://www.theitest.com):%5B/url%5D">www.theitest.com):</a> Internet-based contest in September for teams of five people. Find four other people and you can sign up; you don't need your school to sponsor you. Good way to kick off the season.
- Mandelbrot (The</a> Mandelbrot Competition) and Math League (Welcome</a> to the Math League) contests: Get your school to register for one or both of these. Several contests over the course of the year, taken at your school, mail in the results.</p>
<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
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>