Math Counts
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| Type | Foundation |
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| Headquarters | Alexandria, Virginia |
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Honorary Chair
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Thomas A. Kennedy |
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Main organ
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Board of Directors |
| Website | mathcounts |
Mathcounts, stylized as MATHCOUNTS, is a nationwide middle school mathematics competition held in various places in the United States. Its founding sponsors include the CNA Foundation, the National Society of Professional Engineers, and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
The subject matter includes geometry, combinatorics, counting, probability, number theory, and algebra.
The competition is divided into four stages: school, chapter, state, and national. In general, the problems become harder as one progresses towards nationals. Each school is allowed to register one team of four students, six individual students and some alternates.
High-ranking students and teams from each chapter competition progress to the state-level competition. At the chapter-level all students are eligible to advance based on their individual score, but members of a team are also eligible to advance based on their team score. The exact number of qualifiers varies from chapter to chapter. At the state level, the top four individuals, which, from state to state, varies between using solely the written results or including the Countdown round results, progress to nationals as a single team representing the state. When a school wins the best team award, the coach of that school is named the coach of the state team.
The Mathcounts program is open to sixth, seventh, and eighth-grade students in every U.S. state and territory. Students can participate through the Competition Program, the Club Program, and the Real Math Challenge. Prior to 2010, homeschools and virtual schools were allowed to compete in all aspects of the program. In the 2010–2011 program year, such schools were limited to individual participation with one exception: homeschool clubs that participated as a team in 2009–2010 were grandfathered into the 2010–2011 competition. Starting with the 2010–2011 program year, the Board of Directors established new guidelines that again allowed home and virtual schools to participate both as individuals and as members of a team.
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