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Sep 29 2025 Meeting

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Godmar Back
BMS Mathcounts Coach

At our third meeting, students did Warmup 2 and the advanced group did Warmup 8.

Dr. Zhu presented on proportional reasoning. The notes are below:

Recommended Alcumus Topics for this week include

  • Prealgebra -> Ratio Basics
  • Prealgebra -> Proportions
  • Prealgebra -> Unit Conversions
  • Prealgebra -> Speed and Other Rates

For the advanced group, we continued to worked on

Please take the time to upsolve the problems you didn't get.

Sep 22 2025 Meeting

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Godmar Back
BMS Mathcounts Coach

We had an excellent second meeting. Students did Warmup 1 and the advanced group did Warmup 7.

Theta presented on expressions, linear equations and simple systems of 2 equations. She created the following slot notes

Recommended Alcumus Topics for this week include

  • Prealgebra -> Basic Linear Equations
  • Prealgebra -> Advanced Linear Equations
  • Prealgebra -> Word Problems

If someone wants to practice this using IXL, they can do IXL Math 8 M. One-variable Equations, which provide a checkpoint.

For the advanced group, we worked on

Please take the time to upsolve the problems you didn't get.

Sep 15 2025 Meeting

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Godmar Back
BMS Mathcounts Coach

Our coaching team this year will be:

  • Dr. Back (Coach)
  • Theta Back (Co-Coach)
  • Yizheng Zhu (Co-Coach)
  • Ms. Diane Goldsberry (Teacher Sponsor).

At our first meeting, we discussed the Club Rules. Please read them. If you haven't signed up for AoPS, please do so and share your AoPS account name with us.

The topic of the meeting was general welcome and the Chinese Remainder Theorem.

2025/26 Mathcounts Season

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Godmar Back
BMS Mathcounts Coach

Mathcounts will start on Monday, Sep 12, 2025. Read our flyer.

馃憠 Parents need to fill out the parental permission form.

We are planning something new this year. We will have additional coaches:

  • Theta Back, who represented BMS on the team in 2023/24 and 2024/25, will be supporting us.

  • Yizheng Zhu will be supporting us as well.

We will have an advanced group and a beginner's group to make sure everyone can grow appropriately. Details will be published in the club rules.

We would like to thank Ms. Diane Goldsberry, who has graciously agreed to be our sponsor, for registering us.

As a reminder, we are meeting every Monday at 3pm-4pm in the Virtual Reality Lab behind the library.

2025 State Contest

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Godmar Back
BMS Mathcounts Coach

This year's State Competition took place here in Blacksburg at Virginia Tech. The event took place March 22, 2025.

11 teams from 9 chapters participated. Including individual competitors, a total of 83 students were invited to attend.

Our team consisted of

  • Theta Back (Team Captain)
  • Matthew Cao
  • Maximilian Li
  • Franklin Liu

Jacob Ji, Moses Park, and Abraham Du competed as individuals.

Congratulations!

BMS Mathcounts Team (All)