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Nov 27 Meeting

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Godmar Back
BMS Mathcounts Coach

At the Nov 27 meeting we went over last week's set and looked at probability.

Materials:

The following Alcumus topics are recommended:

  • Counting & Probability - Factorials
  • Counting & Probability - Permutations
  • Counting & Probability - Basic Combinations

Nov 20 Meeting

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Godmar Back
BMS Mathcounts Coach

At the Nov 20 meeting we went over last week's set and looked at multinomial coefficients.

Materials:

I'll accept the Warmup 8 sheet for participation credit until before the next meeting.

I discovered that some of the new participants need practice in symbolic manipulation for simple, one variable equations.

To that end, the following Alcumus topics are recommended:

  • Prealgebra - Expressions
  • Prealgebra - Basic Linear Equations

Nov 13 Meeting

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Godmar Back
BMS Mathcounts Coach

At the Nov 13 meeting we went over last week's set and looked at quadratics and parabola.

Materials:

I'll accept the Parabola Stretch sheet for participation credit until before the next meeting.

The following Alcumus topics are recommended:

  • Algebra - Quadratic Formula/Discriminant
  • Algebra - Completing the Square
  • Algebra - Factoring Monic Quadratics

Nov 6 Meeting

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Godmar Back
BMS Mathcounts Coach

At the Nov 6 meeting we went over last week's set and looked at an combinatorics: permutations and combinations

Materials:

I'll accept the Warmup 6 sheet for participation credit until before the next meeting.

The following Alcumus topics are recommended:

  • Prealgebra - The Multiplication Principle in Counting
  • Prealgebra - Permutations
  • Counting - Basic Combinations
  • Counting - Computing Combinations