MATHCLUB
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ATH OLYMPIADS is a national Middle School program that encourages students to increase their math skills through learning and competition. Students meet twice a week for practice.
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practice session includes correcting weekly assignments, a lesson (often things that are not taught in the regular classroom), and a competition to improve the students' speed and accuracy.
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op students can earn individual and team awards.
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aving math as your best subject is not required to join! All you have to have is a desire to learn and be willing to do what it takes to become better! We have snacks at every practice!
5A Time: 4 minutes
Ten posts are placed 6 meters apart in a straight line. A
fence runs from the first post to the last post. How long is the fence? (Ignore the thickness of the posts.)
5B Time: 5 minutes
The product of three consecutive whole numbers is 15,600. What is the smallest of the three numbers?
5C Time: 6 minutes
72 more females than males are enrolled in ArchimedesHigh School. 60% of the students are female. What is the number of male students that are enrolled?
5D Time: 7 minutes
Two semicircles are inscribed in a square
with side 8 m, as shown. Approximate the
area of the shaded region to the nearest
tenth of a sq m. Use the approximation
3.14 for π.
5E Time: 5 minutes
The value of a two-digit number is 10 more than 3 times the sum of its digits. The units digit is 1 more than twice the tens digit. Find the two-digit number.
About MATH Club at Riverside Meadows:
1. What is MATH OLYMPIADS?
Your school's math club meets twice a week for half an hour. Club members explore a topic or strategy in depth, usingCreative Problem Solving in School Mathematics (or other sources), or they practice for the contests, using nonroutine problems from both Math Olympiad Contest Problems Volume 2 or Mathematical Olympiads Contest Problems for Elementary and Middle Schools (or other sources).
The highlights for students are the five monthly contests, given from November to March. No traveling is required. These contests provide an incentive for students to intensify their study of math.
AWARDS —The following awards are shipped after Olympiad 5:
Individual
a)A certificate for each participant,
b)An embroidered Olympiad patch for each student whose cumulative score is in the top 50% approximately of all students in that division,
c)A gold or silver pin for each student whose cumulative score is in the top 10% approximately of all students in that division,
d)A trophy for the highest individual scorer of each team,
e)A medallion for each student with a perfect score,
Team
a)For each division: a plaque for each of the top 10% of all teams by team score,
b)For each division: a certificate for each of the second 10% of all teams by team score,
2. Expectations of MATH OLYMPIADS.
a. Practices twice a week either before school, during lunch, or after school on Wed. & Fri.
b. Weekly assignments
c. Help each other/teach each other
d. Those who want to do well will need to do more than just the minimum assignments—MATH CLUB is not about grades, it’s about getting better at Math.
Students in MATH OLYMPIADS can expect to do challenging problem solving involving math and logic, some topics are not covered in the regular mathematics curriculum, in a competitive setting. They will also be given instruction on how to solve these types of problems.
3. What we do in the practices (in Room 18)
a. Check/correct assignments (help each other)
b. Lesson
c. Snack
d. Practice Round
e. Practices last half an hour twice a week
PARENTS: You can support our program by Volunteering!
Recruit business to sponsor MATH OLYMPIADS by:
- Supplying snacks or parties for our practices
- Providing sportswear (hats, shirts, lanyards, etc imprinted with MATH OLYMPIADS and their company logo) for our members—this will help build pride in our program
- Sponsor local competitions
Provide snacks for our practices
Persuade local media to cover MATH OLYMPIADS
Give presentations at our practices
Help the members learn how to work the problems
Help plan local competitions
Come join Riverside Meadows MATH CLUBand help us build the reputation of being the school to beat in California! Coach Acosta