Last Updated: 9/23/09

The AMATYC Math Contest at CCSF

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• Time/Date/Room for Next Contest Exam at CCSF
• Brief Overview of the AMATYC Math Contest
• Contest Preparation Workshops at CCSF
• Links to Math Contest Practice Problem Sites

Date/Time/Room for Next Contest Exam at CCSF

The Round #2 exam for the 2009-2010 Academic Year will be held on:

** NOTE: This is a 60 minute exam. Students may choose to take the exam from 2-3 PM or from 3-4 PM, depending on what best fits their schedule. (The preferred starting time is 2 PM...if you cannot make that time due to a schedule conflict, just be sure to arrive no later than 3:05 PM. Students cannot be admitted after 3:05.)

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Brief Overview of the AMATYC Math Contest

The AMATYC "Student Math League" Contest is a math contest held each year at community colleges nationwide. It consists of two one-hour exams given in November and March at CCSF and over 150 other colleges. Each exam consists of 20 multiple choice questions covering precalculus material (e.g. algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and statistics/probability). Examples of past exams can be downloaded (as PDF files) from this AMATYC webpage. [Note: You'll need the free Adobe Acrobat software to read these files.] Various contest scholarships and prizes are awarded, among them:

• A $3000 scholarship to an accredited 4-year college or university for the highest scoring participant nationwide. This scholarship is provided by AMATYC.
• Three scholarship prizes of values up to $500 awarded for the three highest scoring contestants from a northern California community college. These scholarships are provided by CMC^3 (California Mathematics Council-Community Colleges), which is a professional society of community college math teachers in Northern California. In recent years a number of CCSF students have been awarded such scholarships (ranging from $200 to $500).
• AMATYC awards various prizes (e.g. books, plaques, etc.) to the top ten participants nationwide and to members of the 1st place team. (The five highest scoring students among a colleges participants comprises the colleges "team". In recent years, CCSF's contest teams have regularly placed among the top 10 schools nationwide and the CCSF team earned first place in the 2002-2003 academic year.)

All CCSF students are welcome to participate. No special registration is required --- all an interested student has to do is come to the contest room at the announced time on the contest date. Note, however, that students who have already earned a two-year college degree (or higher) are not eligible to compete for official awards.

For More Information

A good deal of information about the contest is posted outside Batmale 730 (e.g. copies of past AMATYC Contest Exams).  For further information you can:

• read this scanned info sheet (53 KB) (or the same document as a PDF file (63 KB)) written last year for CCSF students.
• browse the official AMATYC "Student Math League" Contest Rules webpage

• Rene Liu (Batmale 768)
• Aaron Schusteff (Batmale 730)
• Rod Thompson (Batmale 768)

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Contest Preparation Workshops at CCSF

During the pre-contest workshops we'll discuss how the contest works. Then we'll look at some problems from previous year's contests and discuss solutions and strategies to help prepare students for the upcoming contest exam ... to be held Friday, October 30, 2009.

During the post-contest meeting we'll return student results and go over problems that appeared on the previous week's contest exam.

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Links to Math Contest Practice Problem Sites

For other potential practice problems see:

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