Last Updated: 2/5/13

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 2012-2013 Academic Year will be held on:

** The preferred starting time is 2:00pm...if you cannot make that time due to a schedule conflict, you may take the exam from 3:00-4:10pm. Just be sure to arrive no later than 3:05pm since, due to contest rules, students cannot be admitted after 3:05pm.

Please Note: Contest rules specify that no student may begin the contest exam after any student has left the test room. So students beginning the exam at 2:05pm must commit to staying until at least 3:05pm, so that we can offer the second time option from 3:05-4:10pm for those who can't begin at 2:05pm.

FURTHER INFO: Participants have exactly 60 minutes to work on the exam. It takes about 5 minutes to distribute the exams and read through the instructions, so participants should plan to be present from 2:05-3:10pm.

You can have a look now at the exam instructions and answer sheet. At the beginning of each contest exam, we'll read through the instructions and you'll fill in the student information on the answer sheet...after that you'll have 60 minutes to work on the contest problems.

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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. At CCSF, the first exam is typically given in early November and the second exam is given in early March. 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:

• The CCSF Math Department offers prizes of $75, $50, and $25 to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd highest scoring CCSF student participants.
• Three scholarship prizes of values up to $500 are 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).
• A $3000 scholarship to an accredited 4-year college or university for the highest scoring participant nationwide. This scholarship is provided by AMATYC.
• 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 college's participants comprises the college's "team". In recent years, CCSF's contest teams have repeatedly 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 needs to do is come to the contest room at the announced time on the contest date. Students are also permitted to bring and use any scientific or graphics calculator that does not have a QWERTY (i.e. typewriter) keyboard.

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

If you'd like to learn more about the contest, you can:

• read this scanned info sheet (53 KB) from a few years back (or the same document as a PDF file (63 KB)).
• browse the official AMATYC "Student Math League" Contest Rules webpage

or you may contact one of the following CCSF math faculty:

• Glenn Aguiar (Batmale 720)
• Michael Greenberg (Batmale 361)
• Renee Liu (Batmale 768)
• Aaron Schusteff (Batmale 730)
• Rod Thompson (Batmale 770)

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CCSF Contest Workshop Schedule for Spring 2013

	Date	Time	Room	Instructor
Pre-Contest Workshop	Friday, March 1	2:10-3:00pm	Batmale 551	A. Schusteff
AMATYC Contest Exam: Round #2	Friday, March 8	2:00-3:10pm (or   3:00-4:10pm)	Batmale 553 Batmale 551
Post-Contest Meeting	Friday, March 15	2-3pm	Batmale 551	A. Schusteff

During the pre-contest workshops we typically discuss how the contest works, look at problems from previous contest exams, and discuss solutions and strategies to help prepare students for the upcoming contest exam.

During the post-contest meeting we'll:

• Discuss solutions to problems from the recent contest exam;
• Return contest participant's tests, answer sheets, and scratch work;
• Introduce members of the CCSF Math Department's Math Contest Committee...who will be available to help you prepare for the Round #2 exam next March.

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Links to Math Contest Practice Problem Sites

Your first "best resource" for preparing for the contest is to take a look at some of the eighteen previous AMATYC exams (with answer keys).

For other potential practice problems see:

The Math Forum "Math Puzzle" Links: A selection of links to math puzzle/problems sites with a variety of levels.

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