1st annual Math-Team-Matics competition

Is your school looking for a fun opportunity to compete with mathematics?
The GVSU Department of Mathematics and the Regional Math Science Center are hosting the first annual Math-Team Matics competition at Grand Valley State University’s Allendale Campus.
Teams of five mathematicians will have a friendly competition to crown the winning group.
Can your school bring home the inaugural Math-Team-Matics championship?

When: December 7th, 2013
Time: 9 A.M-3 P.M
Cost: $60.00 for a team of 5 and 1 coach, includes the competition and lunch at Fresh Food Co. 
Registration: Now through November 28th. 
Participants: Open to teams of 5 students in 7th-10th grade.

World Maths Day Contest: March 5

On WorldMaths Day, students aged 4-18 years old team up to solve arithmetic and mental computation problems together in real time.
Open to schools, individuals, and homeschoolers alike, this free global event awards minted medals, world cups, and prizes, and recognizes each participant with a certificate.
Begun in 2007, World Maths Day has "united the world in numbers" ever since. 
This year's World Maths Day starts in the U.S. on the morning of Tuesday, 5 March, with challenges lasting for as long as an hour or as little as one minute.
Freely downloadable PDFs include a teacher guide, World Education Games poster, and Frequently Asked Questions.

Check out the World Maths Day's first ever apps for Apple iPadand iPad Mini or for the Android math app.

Have your students join an online math league

Do you like to measure, estimate, and play around with technology? Then join the FermiOff-the-Wall Math League!
This Internet-based math competition welcomes students in grades 1-9 from around the world who seek enrichment, small group work, and creative, technology-rich experiences.
A Fermi question is posed with limited information given. For example,

• How many water balloons would it take to fill grandma's bathtub?
• How many cockroaches will fill the trunk of a VW Beetle?
• How much fabric would it take to make a camo-suit for Moby Dick?
• How many eggs would fit in the Trojan Horse's body?

Fermi questions require that students ask many more questions; emphasize process rather than "the" answer; demand communication and writing; and utilize estimation, rounding numbers and guesses.
Registration opened last week for the six-week Winter '13 season, which starts Tuesday, January 29th. 

High School Math Contest: Real World Design Challenge

The Real World Design Challenge (RWDC) is an annual competition that provides high school students, grades 9-12, the opportunity to work on real world engineering challenges in a team environment. Each year, student teams will be asked to address a challenge that confronts our nation's leading industries. Students will utilize professional engineering software to develop their solutions and will also generate presentations that convincingly demonstrate the value of their solutions. The RWDC provides students with opportunities to apply the lessons of the classroom to the technical problems that are being faced in the workplace.

• 2012/2013 Registration Now Open!
• Teams Signup
• Mentors Signup

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