MCTM Math Contest

MCTM Math Contest

Introduction

The registration fee is $4.00 per participant. Please pay your fees to the site director as soon as possible to ensure your participants are registered for the contest, and the director has operating money for the contest

All schools must register online. Schools should seek further information about registering from their local site director. Schools are not allowed to have students register in two different regions. 

Please register your students by grade level and grade band. All students must register at their current grade band or higher (E.g., a 9th-grade student cannot register as a 7-8-grade band). If Suzie Q is an 8th-grade student and wants to take the 9-10 grade band tests, register her as an 8th-grade student but the 9-10 grade band tests. All 11th and 12th-grade students must register at their current grade level and grade band! 

Calculators are allowed on all tests. Symbolic manipulator calculators are permitted on all tests.

Test Guidelines

Regional Awards

State Awards

Scholarships

MCTM Math Excellence Student Scholarships: For each region, MCTM will award $500 and $300 to the top two senior scorers. If a contest has more than 50 senior participants, $200 will be awarded to the third-highest score. In addition, MCTM will award $1000 and $750 to the top two seniors at the state level. If there is a set of tie scores, the first tiebreaker will be whoever has a higher Numerical Choice score. If those scores are identical, the tie will be broken by comparing the correctness of the Multiple-choice questions, beginning with the last question and working in reverse order until a winner is determined.

All coaches must realize that students are only eligible for a scholarship if they participate in the official school contest region (where their school is registered). If a school has students participating at more than one site, all of their students from that school may be disqualified for the senior scholarships.


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