Missouri Council of Teachers of Mathematics 30th Annual Missouri Middle School Mathematics Contest Regional Contest Sites and Dates

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1 Missouri Council of Teachers of Mathematics 30th Annual Missouri Middle School Mathematics Contest Regional Contest Sites and Dates Saturday, March 7, 2015 Louisiana Elizabeth Wallace Louisiana Middle School 3321 W. Georgia St. Louisiana, MO Saturday, March 14, 2015 Saturday, March 21, 2015 Clinton Emily Combs/Hope Mackenzie Clinton Middle School 600 E. Clinton Clinton, MO Rolla Katy White Rolla Junior High 1360 Soest Road Rolla, MO Republic Rochelle Shumaker Republic Middle School 1 Tiger Dr. Republic, MO rochelle.shumaker@republicschools.org Ballwin Kelley Garbero and Erin Brooks Selvidge Middle School 235 New Ballwin Road Ballwin, MO garberokelley@rockwood.k12.mo.us Hannibal Mervin Sharkey Hannibal Middle School 4700 McMasters Ave. Hannibal, MO msharkey@hannibal.k12.mo.us Saturday, March 28, 2015 Saturday, April 4, 2015 Kansas City Chris McCann Eastgate Middle School 4700 NE Parvin Road Kansas City, MO Chris.McCann@nkcschools.org Columbia Bob Borst Rock Bridge High School 4303 South Providence Road Columbia, MO bborst@columbia.k12.mo.us

2 Jackson Rachel Glisson Jackson Middle School 1651 West Independence St. Jackson, MO Maryville Becky Byland Maryville Middle School 525 W. S. Hills Drive Maryville, MO Richmond Brenda Hamm Richmond Middle School 715 S. Wellington Street Richmond, MO Saturday, April 11, 2015 Bolivar Dr. Kevin Hopkins Department of Mathematics Southwest Baptist University 1600 University Ave. Bolivar, MO Test Site: Wheeler Science Building, SBU West Plains Jerry Trick Missouri State University-West Plains 128 Garfield Ave. West Plains, MO Lamar Ron Ray Lamar Middle School 202 W 7th ST Lamar, MO rray@lamar.k12.mo.us The State Math Competition will be held on Saturday, April 25, 2015, at the University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO.

3 MCTM Middle School Mathematics Regional Contest Official Entry Form DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 16, 2015 (or 2 weeks prior to regional date with permission of regional coordinator) School Name Public or Private School Address City ZIP Phone Fax Sponsor Name(s) (Sponsor agrees to serve as a monitor or grader. Two sponsors if more than 9 participants.) (Sponsor/Principal required to confirm) PRINCIPAL'S SIGNATURE ENTRY FEE: $7.00 per entrant (no fee required for alternates) AMOUNT ENCLOSED: $ Make check payable to: MCTM. (Purchase orders WILL NOT be accepted.) MAIL TO: REGIONAL SITE COORDINATOR (addresses on adjacent page) where your school plans to participate. Name of Site: Don t write here CONTESTANTS: (Type or print legibly Last Name, First Name) Student# Room Grade 6: Grade 7: Grade 8: Educators to accompany students to contest and assist coordinator (indicate if a teacher, administrator, or parent):

4 Mathematics Contest Rules Grades 6-8 The Missouri Council of Teachers of Mathematics (MCTM) complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Requests for special accommodations for persons with disabilities must be submitted in writing with documentation to the regional site coordinator at least 30 days in advance of the contest so special arrangements can be made. Submission of this registration form grants permission to the Missouri Council of Teachers of Mathematics to release the names and photographs of participants in this contest to the news media, the MCTM web site, and the mathleague website. Regional contests are open to students enrolled in grades 6, 7 or 8 in Missouri public or private schools. The maximum number of students a school (elementary or middle) may enter at each grade level is eight. Home-schooled students are also invited to participate either as a representative of the local public school team or as a representative for a minimum of 10 home-schooled children at the same grade level in the region / home school organization. Regional coordinators may limit the participation to 3 home-schooled children per grade level. Schools and home-school organizations (and therefore students, as representatives) may participate in only one regional contest. All entries must be submitted on an Official Entry Form, or copy thereof, signed by the school principal and postmarked no later than February 16, A non-refundable fee of $7.00 is required for each participating student. The entry form and check should be mailed to the Regional Coordinator (see addresses on the adjacent pages) at the regional site where the school plans to participate, which is normally the site closest to your school s location. You may apply at an alternate site if the date for the nearest contest conflicts with your school s academic calendar. However, acceptance at an alternate site will depend on space availability, and priority will be given to local entries. The Regional Coordinator reserves the right to return late entries. At the testing locations: No student or adult will be admitted to a testing room after a test has begun. Students must furnish their own sharpened pencils and calculator. Any calculator that is allowed on the SAT will be allowed for the Target and Team Events. Any student choosing to use a calculator must bring his or her own calculator to the contest. Scratch paper will be allowed on the Sprint and Team Events. Any space on the test may be used for calculations. An answer sheet will be provided for recording and marking answers for each event. Care must be taken to write or mark each answer in the appropriate space. Answers involving fractional numbers must be expressed in simplest form (lowest terms) except for ratios which may not have to be simplified. Solutions will require labels when they involve money ($ or ), time (a.m. or p.m.), measurements (such as cm., in., square units), or multiple labels (such as 3 yd. 2 ft. or 5 weeks and 3 days). MCTM/mathleague.org is solely responsible for the choice of questions, correctness of answers and the administration of the Mathematics Contest. Test answer sheets will be collected, checked and scored by personnel selected by the Regional Coordinator. All decisions will be rendered on questions as they arise. These decisions are and will remain final. The sponsoring school and/or parents must provide supervision at all times except when a student is taking a test. At least one teacher/principal (two if more than 9 participants) must accompany the students to the regional contest and be available to assist the Regional Coordinator as requested. There will be three events: Target (calculator allowed), Sprint (no calculator), and Team (calculator allowed). ALL students will take ALL events. For more details about each of these events and how they will be scored, please go to or read the Contest Coordinator Handbook also available on the MCTM website at The students earning the five highest scores in each event at each grade level will be recognized. The top five Sweepstakes scores will also be recognized. An honorable mention will be given to the top scoring student from each school. In each grade level, the top five combined scores (sprint score plus two times the target score) will be recognized and will participate in the MCTM State Finals Middle School Mathematics Contest. The top Sweepstakes team at each site will participate in the MCTM State Finals Middle School Mathematics Contest. At state, all individuals who qualified individually or through the team event will take all events (Target, Sprint, and Team). A special request must be made if a religious belief prohibits participation in a Saturday contest. The request must be made in writing to the regional site coordinator or the state finals coordinator at least 30 days in advance of the contest so that special arrangements can be made. The arrangements may require that the contest participant go to another location to participate in the contest. You may wish to go to mathleague.org s website to sign up to receive a free elementary sample contest. If you have any questions, please contact Kelley Garbero, Middle School Contest Director, at garberokelley@rockwood.k12.mo.us or

5 Strategies to Share with Sponsors and Students (Feel free to distribute these next two pages in an to all sponsors and in a hard copy to all sponsors the day of the contest.) The descriptions on page 1 of the handbook should be shared with all students prior to the day of the contest. Students should be organized into teams of 1-4 students for the team event prior to the day of the contest. Teams may consist of students of different grade levels. Team Formation: Teams can be made up of 1-4 students of mixed or same grade levels; we encourage mixed grade level teams since a sixth grader may be stronger in a particular topic than a eighth grader just because he or she recently studied that topic in school. Every student attending will take the team test. The team event will be a part of the Sweepstakes score. A team's Sweepstakes score is obtained by adding the individual scores of the team members, dividing by 4, and adding the team's score on the team test. A maximum team total would be 56 points (46 points if the team had four members with perfect individual scores, 10 for the team test). Ties are broken by comparing team test scores (weighted by item analysis). If a team is not comprised of 4 members, there will be a 0 added into the sum for each missing team member before dividing by 4. The first place overall Sweepstakes score at each site will qualify all of its team members for the state competition, not the first place team event score as was used in the past. During the restroom break (approximately 10:00-10:15), students are expected to remain in the area near their testing rooms. Restrooms and a water fountain will be nearby. No food or drink may be taken into the testing rooms. No student will be allowed to enter a testing session after a test has begun. Students are expected to remain in their assigned rooms and to refrain from talking throughout the individual testing sessions. Any student making disruptive noises may be asked to leave the room. During the team event, students should talk quietly with their teammates so that they do not inadvertently share answers with other teams. Students should bring at least 2 sharpened pencils and a calculator. Any calculator allowed on the SAT may be used ( Calculators are allowed ONLY on the Target and Team Events. A student must furnish his or her own calculator. Calculators are NOT allowed on the Sprint Event. Students may not use any dictionaries or other reference materials. If any student's proficiency in the language(s) the tests are offered in is so severely limited as to preclude participation in mathleague.org contests, that student's coach may make arrangements with mathleague.org to provide a written translation of the tests, so long as the translation can be accomplished in a timely and secure fashion, and at no cost to mathleague.org. Any such translation must be approved by mathleague.org before use at a contest. Solutions to problems involving dollars and cents should have the appropriate symbol ($ or ) written with the solution on the answer sheet. Solutions involving time should include the appropriate label (e.g., 3:15 p.m. and 5 hrs. 20 mins). Most questions will not require units since it will be included in the question; however, if a student writes the incorrect units, his or her answer will be counted as incorrect (e.g., 13 meters written as an answer to something that was to be measured in square meters). Fractional numbers must be expressed in simplest (lowest) terms or as an equivalent decimal fraction, unless a ratio is requested. For example, 0.33 is not equivalent to 1/3 and would be counted incorrect if the answer were 1/3. All improper fractions may be expressed as mixed numbers or improper fractions. Mental computation and estimation items are intended to be performed mentally. Paper and pencil computation may be slower, allowing less time for working problems. Any part of the test booklet may be used for computation and scratch work. Scratch paper will be given on Team and Target.

6 Students may be working in adult-sized arm chairs in university classrooms. Each participant will receive a Ribbon of Participation. The students earning the five highest scores in Target and Sprint at each grade level will be recognized. The top five Sweepstakes scores will also be recognized. An honorable mention will be given to the top scoring student from each school. If a student has already placed from a given school, an honorable mention ribbon does not need to be given to this student; this award is for recognizing the top scorers from each school when no student from a school places in any other events. In each grade level, the top five combined scores (sprint score plus two times the target score) will be recognized and will participate in the MCTM State Finals Middle School Mathematics Contest. The top Sweepstakes team (the first place overall Sweepstakes team score, NOT the first place team event score) at each site will participate in the MCTM State Finals Middle School Mathematics Contest. At state, all individuals who qualified individually or through the team event will take all events (Target, Sprint, and Team). In the past, MCTM has not released any portion of the students tests due to using some similar questions from year to year. However, mathleague.org would like to encourage all site coordinators to keep all of the students tests by school, and return them to the appropriate schools after all of the contest sites have been completed (AFTER APRIL 12, 2015). This allows students to see what they have missed, learn from their mistakes, and even have time to learn some new concepts before the state competition on Saturday, April 25, Site coordinators may choose to mail the contest papers or forego the expense of mailing out large amounts of paper and make them available for pick up at their school after April 12, In addition to releasing the test materials, results of ALL sites will be available online at mathleague.org to the public after the results have been finalized by the site coordinator. Students names will not be listed; the school s name will be listed and the student s first and last initials. Students will now be able to see how they rank with regard to everyone else at a particular site and across the state. On Target, Sprint, and Team, students should never leave a question blank they should always guess since there is no penalty for guessing.