Math Club 2009-2010

 

Teacher in Charge: Ms. Asato

Honorary Advisor: Mrs. Winegar

Attention Mathletes! Math Club will be held on select Wednesdays during lunch (12:10 - 12:46 pm) in room F-2 (Ms. Asato's room). Bring your lunch - if you purchase lunch, come see Ms. Asato during Brunch on Wednesday or at the beginning of lunch for a Math Club Front of the LinePass so that you can get your lunch quickly and join us for some math fun!

Math Club will begin promptly during Wednesday lunches with a warmup and then we'll be using MathCounts and Math Olympiad exercises to increase our mathleticism. You'll get 'homework' to exercise your mathematical abilities outside of Math Club which will be reviewed the following Math Club session. Many math teachers will even give you extra credit for attending Math Club!

Activities and Contests for the 2009-10 School Year

We will be preparing for and participating in five monthly Math Olympiads for Elementary and Middle School (MOEMS) contests. Scores will be submitted to MOEMS and we'll be able to see how we do against school around the nation. In addition, we'll be attending local area math contests and activities - see the calendar below.

 

 Date

 Activity

 Note

 Wed.,

9/09/09

First Day of Math Club for 2009-10  (Lunchtime in Room F-2)

·        Distribute Parent Letter

·        Overview of Math Club Meeting Dates and Activities 

 All Math Club

 Wed., 9/16/09

Math Club

·        Signups for Math Club

All Math Club 

 Wed., 9/23/09

 Math Club – Practice

All Math Club 

 Wed., 9/30/09

Math Club – Practice

All Math Club 

 Wed., 10/07/09

 Math Club – Practice

 All Math Club

 Wed., 10/14/09

Math Club – Practice

 All Math Club

 Wed., 10/21/09

Math Club – Practice

 All Math Club

 Wed., 10/28/09

Math Club – Practice

 All Math Club

 Wed., 11/04/09

Qualifying Round for 1st Math Olympiad Lunch Contest (if needed to determine the top 35 students to be reported on the web), Practice for taking the Math Olympiad Contest for all math club students

All Math Club

 Wed., 11/18/09

1st Math Olympiad Lunch Contest

All Math Club

 Wed., 12/02/09

Review of 1st Math Olympiad Contest Answers

All Math Club

 Wed., 12/09/09

Math Club – Practice

 All Math Club

Wed., 12/16/09

2nd Math Olympiad Lunch Contest

All Math Club

January 2010

San Jose JACL Tokutomi Contest (Saturday date tbd)

Parent Drivers Needed 

Wed., 01/06/10 

Math Club – Practice

All Math Club 

Wed., 01/13/10

3rd Math Olympiad Lunch Contest 

All Math Club

Wed., 01/20/10 

Review of 3rd Math Olympiad Contest Answers 

 All Math Club

 Wed., 01/27/10

Math Club – Practice

 All Math Club

February 2010

(date tbd)

 MathCounts Silicon Valley Chapter Competition*
San JoseStateUniversity - Top 8 from AMC 8/Math Olympiad Contests to date will be invited

Santa ClaraValley Chapter Mathcounts Results

http://www.geocities.com/moosecyn/index.html

Chapter Competition Questions/Answers 2008

http://www.mathcounts.org/webarticles/anmviewer.asp?a=510

 Top 8 Math Olympiads

Wed., 02/03/10

Math Club – Practice

All Math Club

Wed., 02/10/10 

4th Math Olympiad Lunch Contest

All Math Club

Wed., 02/24/10

Review of 4th Math Olympiad Contest Answers 

 All Math Club

March 2010

 Harker School Math Invitational (Competition)*

***Please get your permission slips from Ms. Asato***

(Saturday date tbd)

 Parent Drivers Needed

March 2010

 Expanding Your Horizons for Girls*

San JoseStateUniversity (date tbd)

 Parent Drivers Needed

March 2010

MathCounts Northern California State Competition*

University of California, Davis (date to be determined)

 Qualifiers from Chapter Competition

 Wed., 03/03/10

Math Club – Practice

All Math Club

 Wed., 03/10/10

5th Math Olympiad Lunch Contest (last contest for 2009-10)

All Math Club

 Wed., 03/17/10

Review of 5th Math Olympiad Contest Answers and Last Math Club for 2009-10!

All Math Club 

Friday,  May 2010

Math Club/Geometry Enriched Classes Great America* Physics/Science/Math Day Field Trip (date tbd)

 All Math Club

 

 *Items with an asterisk require a signed permission slip

 

 Math Links

http://mathcounts.org - Website for the MathCounts Program - promoting middle school math achievement

http://www.moems.org - Math Olympiad for Elementary and Middle Schools

http://www.unl.edu/amc/whatswhat.shtml - American Mathematics Competitions (AMC8 and AMC10)

http://www.sanjosejacl.org/math.html - Website for the San Jose Japanese American Citizens League Tokutomi Mathematics Contest