53 posts tagged with "mathcounts"

At the Dec 18 meeting we went over some of the more difficult unsolved problems.

We also practiced the use of calculators which are allowed in the Target round. The first timers did Workout 1 and the others Workout 6.

Mathcounts does not impose limits in terms of how powerful the calculator can be as long as it does not have a QWERTY-style keyboard (and ABCDE style keyboard is ok). It is important, however, that you use a calculator you are familiar with. For most problems, a simple calculator will do fine.

Materials:

• Slides
• Workout 1
• Workout 6

At the Dec 11 meeting we went over last week's set. We split the sets. The first timers did Warmup 3/2022 and the others Warmup 12.

At the next meeting, we will do some workouts that require a calculator. If you own one, please bring it.

Materials:

• Slides
• Warmup 3/2022
• Warmup 12

At the Dec 4 meeting we went over last week's set.

Materials:

• Slides
• Warmup 11

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

Materials:

• Slides
• Warmup 10

The following Alcumus topics are recommended:

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

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

Materials:

• Slides
• Extra Challenge

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