The New Hampshire Teachers of Mathematics invite you to form one 10-member mathematics team (with no more than four seniors and a maximum of eight juniors and seniors combined) and to join us for our 50th competition this year on Monday, March 11, 2023 at NHTI – Concord (with a snow date of Thursday, March 14 – still at NHTI). Your team will have the opportunity to meet with other students from throughout the state in a day of exciting, challenging, competitive mathematics exercises in six different categories.
The Team category involves all 10 members of the team separated into two groups of five. One of the four team category questions will require each group of five students working together to submit an expanded, detailed written response. That particular response will be judged on the style of solution, the coherence of the explanation and the organization of the correct solution. In other words, teams will need to present more than the correct answer to receive maximum credit for this question! A special group of judges will be responsible for scoring these papers. Each registered school will be assigned a code to be used for this category.
The remaining categories in the contest are Recreational Mathematics, Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, and Advanced Mathematics. Each of these 12-minute categories will consist of three questions of equal value taken by six members from each team. In these categories, students work independently.
Any non-laptop type calculator allowed in the mathematics sections of the SATs and the College Board AP exams may be used in the contest. It is assumed that every participant will have a graphing calculator available to use in the contest. See here.
There will be four divisions of competition. Use October 2nd, 2023 as the official date for school enrollment figures. Please check this figure with school officials to avoid problems of being registered in an incorrect division. Divisions will be as evenly balanced number-wise as possible based on registrations received. Division information will be sent out to registered teams at least a week in advance of the contest.
The doors to NHTI will open at 8:00 am. The contest is scheduled to begin at 9:40 am and the awards ceremony at 1:00 pm. The event should be over by 2:00 pm.
Awards: Certificates of participation will be awarded to all schools. In each division there will be team awards, individual awards to the highest scorers, and members of the first place team in each division will receive medallions. Certificates of achievement will be awarded to all those obtaining a perfect score in a category.