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
Participants will be testing within their grade band
There will be three grade bands (7-8, 9-10 and 11-12)
Students may test up a grade band but not down.
Because we value content knowledge, application, and collaboration in mathematics, each site will hold three tests for each grade band.
Questions will be written using Montana Common Core State Standards with plus sign standards for each grade band.
Each participant will take three tests - Numerical Response, Multiple Choice, and a Team Test.
Each participant will have an Individual Score that is the sum of their Numerical Response and Multiple-Choice scores. That Individual Score will be used to determine awards at the regional and state levels and for the senior scholarships.
The Team Test can be taken by 1, 2, 3, or 4 students.
The Team Test will be administered at all locations, and all participants are assumed to take it.
Regional Awards
Individual participants will be ranked by Individual Score and by grade band.
Gold: Top 10% at Region
Silver: Next 10% (11 - 20) at Region
Bronze: Next 10% (21 - 30) at Region
Team/School Awards will be awarded at each Region
State Awards
Individual participants will be ranked by Individual Score and by grade band.
Platinum: Top 1-2% of all state participants at each grade band
Gold: Top 8-10% of all state participants at each grade band
Silver: Next 11-20% of all state participants at each grade band
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.