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8:00AM-10:00AM
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Teacher Breakfast / Registration
Location: 3rd Floor RSS
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Teachers pickup lunch tickets, t-shirts and packets containing All-Day Sprint questions. Any changes in schedule will be announced at this time.
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8:45AM-10:00AM
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Written Tests
Location: See personalized schedule in Confirmation Packet.
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The written test is a multiple choice test. There are three levels depending on the highest course taken by the student. Every participant in the Math Meet takes one of the Written Tests. They are calculator-free. Students must be registered and have an ID Number (assigned by us during the registration process) to take a Written Test. Prizes are awarded both for highest individual scores and for highest total score for a group of four students from each school. Prizes include trophies and scholarships to C of C.
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10:00AM-10:30AM
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Meet-up with Students
Location: (you choose)
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Meet up with your students in a location of your own choosing to hear about their experience with the Written Test and to give them copies of the schedule.
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10:30AM-11:00AM
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Timed Sprint 1
Location: 116 Education Center
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Students are presented with straight-forward mathematics problems to solve individually. The winner is the first person to get a correct answer. There will be eight Timed Math Sprints, but we ask that no student participate in more than 3 of them. There is limited space available, and so students should arrive early to be sure of a spot. Note that some of the Sprints are for specified grade levels.
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10:30AM-11:00AM
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Timed Sprint 2
Location: 118 Education Center
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Students are presented with straight-forward mathematics problems to solve individually. The winner is the first person to get a correct answer. There will be eight Timed Math Sprints, but we ask that no student participate in more than 3 of them. There is limited space available, and so students should arrive early to be sure of a spot. Note that some of the Sprints are for specified grade levels.
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10:30AM-11:15AM
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Jr Varsity Team Elim / Round 1
Location: See personalized schedule in Confirmation Packet.
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For students in 10th grade and lower only. An event styled after a game-show in which a team of four members from each participating school competes to answer questions projected on a screen. Only winners of this first round proceed to round 2.
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10:30AM-11:15AM
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Physics Guy Demo
Location: 125 Science Center
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The mysterious Physics Guy thrills students with demonstrations of physical phenomena in an intimate laboratory setting.
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11:00AM-11:30AM
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Timed Sprint 3
Location: 116 Education Center
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Students are presented with straight-forward mathematics problems to solve individually. The winner is the first person to get a correct answer. There will be eight Timed Math Sprints, but we ask that no student participate in more than 3 of them. There is limited space available, and so students should arrive early to be sure of a spot. Note that some of the Sprints are for specified grade levels.
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11:00AM-11:30AM
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Timed Sprint 4
Location: 118 Education Center
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Students are presented with straight-forward mathematics problems to solve individually. The winner is the first person to get a correct answer. There will be eight Timed Math Sprints, but we ask that no student participate in more than 3 of them. There is limited space available, and so students should arrive early to be sure of a spot. Note that some of the Sprints are for specified grade levels.
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11:00AM-2:00PM
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Buffet Lunch
Location: Liberty Fresh Food Market
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Tickets can be purchased in advance for $6 or at the door for $7.50.
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11:15AM-12:15PM
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Physics Brainstorm
Location: 108 Science Center
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This test is a timed physics problem test for a team of four or fewer students. The test consists of approximately ten algebra-based written problems from the varoius topics under the broad heading of mechanics, thermal physics, and fluids. Calculators are permitted but not wireless web access. You may enter more than one team in this event.
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11:30AM-12:00PM
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Timed Sprint 5
Location: 116 Education Center
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Students are presented with straight-forward mathematics problems to solve individually. The winner is the first person to get a correct answer. There will be eight Timed Math Sprints, but we ask that no student participate in more than 3 of them. There is limited space available, and so students should arrive early to be sure of a spot. Note that some of the Sprints are for specified grade levels.
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11:30AM-12:00PM
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Timed Sprint 6
Location: 118 Education Center
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Students are presented with straight-forward mathematics problems to solve individually. The winner is the first person to get a correct answer. There will be eight Timed Math Sprints, but we ask that no student participate in more than 3 of them. There is limited space available, and so students should arrive early to be sure of a spot. Note that some of the Sprints are for specified grade levels.
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11:30AM-12:15PM
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Varsity Team Elim / Round 1
Location: See personalized schedule in Confirmation Packet.
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For students in 11th-12th grade only. An event styled after a game-show in which a team of four members from each participating school competes to answer questions projected on a screen. Only winners of this first round proceed to round 2.
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12:00PM-12:30PM
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Timed Sprint 7
Location: 116 Education Center
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Students are presented with straight-forward mathematics problems to solve individually. The winner is the first person to get a correct answer. There will be eight Timed Math Sprints, but we ask that no student participate in more than 3 of them. There is limited space available, and so students should arrive early to be sure of a spot. Note that some of the Sprints are for specified grade levels.
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12:00PM-12:30PM
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Timed Sprint 8
Location: 118 Education Center
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Students are presented with straight-forward mathematics problems to solve individually. The winner is the first person to get a correct answer. There will be eight Timed Math Sprints, but we ask that no student participate in more than 3 of them. There is limited space available, and so students should arrive early to be sure of a spot. Note that some of the Sprints are for specified grade levels.
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12:15PM-12:45PM
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Chemistry Sprint
Location: 317 Science Center
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This is a 25-minute, non-stop challege for any student who has taken chemistry. It allows students to demonstrate fundamental understanding of the nature of matter through conceptual questions and quantitative evaluation of data.
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12:30PM-1:15PM
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Jr Varsity Team Elim / Round 2
Location: 100 Maybank Hall
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Only those teams which win the first round participate in the second round of this gameshow styled event.
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12:30PM-1:15PM
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Varsity Team Elim / Round 2
Location: 115 Beatty (Wach.Aud.)
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Only those teams which win the first round participate in the second round of this gameshow styled event.
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12:45PM-1:15PM
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Physics Sprint
Location: 125 Science Center
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This is an untimed physics problem for individual students. The test consists of one algebra-based written problem from mechanics, thermal physics, or fluids. Calculators are permitted but not wireless web access.
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1:15PM-2:00PM
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Math Brainstorm
Location: See personalized schedule in Confirmation Packet.
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Each team of up to four students from each school will work together to solve a set of problems using algebra, geometry and trigonometry. One member of the team will have to pick up the question and take it to the room where the team members are waiting and then someone will walk the answers back for collection. (Running is not allowed.)
Note that the other three team members will have to wait patiently for the fourth member to return with the question. It may take some time for the questions to be distributed in 219 Maybank Hall.
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1:30PM-2:15PM
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Cutting Edge Math Talk by Amy Langville
Location: 115 Beatty (Wach.Aud.)
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Our own Amy Langville will give a talk at Math Meet 2010. Let us tell you just a bit about Professor Langville so you will see why teachers and students alike should try to attend this talk. Amy does fascinating math research with students. (For example, students from her class were interviewed on NPR and CBS's Early Show about their basketball prediction project.) She has an innovative teaching style. (In fact, she earned a prestigious CAREER award from the NSF.) She is the co-author of a leading book on the mathematics underlying the Google search algorithm. And, she is one of an elite group of mathematicians invited to address the U.S. Congress by the American Mathematical Society. (And we cannot help mentioning also that she builds boats and started a charity that helps poor people in foreign countries!)
We have not yet determined exactly what she will speak about here, but it will probably include a video about Google's ranking algorithm and samples of the research projects students have done in her classes...and it will definitely be worth attending.
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1:45PM-2:00PM
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All-Day Sprint Collection
Location: Maybank Hall / Main Entra
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In the packet teachers receive in the morning there are All-Day Sprint Questions. These questions, which are not necessarily entirely mathematical, can be worked on by students during any free time during the day. A single answer sheet will be turned in for each school, so it is a group effort. Generally, these questions involve decoding and perhaps knowledge of some non-mathematical subjects including geography or history. (The teachers are not allowed to help the students with these questions!)
The answers will be collected at this time and the winner selected at random from the correctly completed answer forms.
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1:45PM-2:30PM
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Jr Varsity Team Elim / Round 3
Location: Physicians Auditorium
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Only two schools compete in the final round of this competition for 9th and 10th grade teams. Run in Quiz Bowl format, the event is open to spectators.
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2:15PM-2:45PM
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Math Team Relay
Location: See personalized schedule in Confirmation Packet.
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The members of each 4 person team (only one team from each school) will answer questions in series. That is, the question each team member answers depends on the answer of the member who came before them so that all four members must answer correctly for the final answer to be correct. The earlier questions are designed to be answered by students at lower grade levels, so that the ideal team would be made up of one student in each grade from 9-12.
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2:30PM-3:15PM
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Varsity Team Elim / Round 3
Location: Physicians Auditorium
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Only two schools compete in the final round of this competition for 11th and 12th grade teams. Run in Quiz Bowl format, the event is open to spectators.
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3:30PM-4:15PM
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Award Ceremony
Location: Physicians Auditorium
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Winners are announced; prizes and trophies are distributed. All are welcome to attend.
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