JV STATE MATH TOURNAMENT
Kell High School
Saturday
March 28, 2009
Kell High School is proud to host The JV State Math Tournament. We welcome you to join us as we celebrate the best and brightest young math minds in the state!
The JV State Math Tournament will consist of 1) An individual written examination, 2) A team ciphering round and 3) a team relay round.
Each of these parts of the competition are described below.
1. Registration: Registration for a team (up to 8 people) is $65 if postmarked by March 14, 2009.
(The cost is $85 if postmarked after March 14, 2009). Please print out the REGISTRATION FORM and send it with your check made out to: Kell High School Math Team c/o Barry Shildneck 4770 Lee Waters Road Marietta, GA 30066
2. Participation: is limited to four to eight students who may be sophomores, freshmen
or middle students. Because of the peculiarities which block scheduling has created
around the state, this has become the only eligibility requirement.
3. Schedule:
8:15-8:45 AM - Registration (Doughnuts and juice available to sponsors and students during registration)
9:00-9:20 AM - Team Ciphering
9:30-11:00 AM - Written Test
11:15 AM-noon - Relay Ciphering
noon-1:45 - Lunch
1:45 PM - Awards
4. Tournament Format and Scoring
information:
All items are prepared from the areas of geometry and algebra 2. Written test: 25 multiple choice questions + 5 free response questions, 90 minutes.
Competitors may use any NON-SYMBOL MANIPULATIVE
calculator (such as a
TI-83 or TI-84 ).
Scoring: 4* # multiple choice correct + 1.1* # multiple choice unanswered + 7* # free
response correct
(The Max Individual Score: 135; The Team Score = sum of four highest written
scores).
Team Ciphering: Teams of (up to) four from all of your team members together
cipher a packet of 16 problems in an 12-minute time period,
submitting answers to any problem at any time during the ten minutes. If you bring a
full complement of 8 students, you may have two teams of four; if
you bring less, you may have one team of 4 students and one team of less than 4
students. Points are awarded for any correct answers during minute one
(25 points), minutes two/three/four (15 points), minutes five through eight (10 points),
and minutes nine through twelve (5 points) , with negative two points
for an incorrect submission. If yours is the ONLY school to correctly answer any one
of the 16 questions correctly, each of your teams doing so will earn
a 50 POINT BONUS. Only one attempt per team for each problem may be submitted.
Maximum potential (but very unlikely) score is 400+ team points.
Your team score will be the higher total achieved by either of your teams (should you
have more than one team).
Relay ciphering: EXACTLY four team members (call them A , B , C and D) sit in a
line, facing the same direction. If you have more than four students,
you may substitute students into your relay team between rounds. Member A is given a
problem to work, and when finished passes his/her answer to
member B (this is the only acceptable "backwards communication" - if one of the
proctors/ sponsors sees anything other than A= "a number" written on the
slip of paper passed, there will be a team penalty of negative 1000 points ). Member
B's question is dependent upon A's answer, so upon receipt of it he/she
can work their problem and pass their answer to member C (with the same penalty for
illegal communication ). Member C's question depends on member B's
answer, etc. When member D is finished, he/she puts pencil down and raises their
answer slip in the air to have one of the runners check it. If incorrect, D
gives the only acceptable form of “forward communication" - a verbal message in the
spirit of "give me another answer" (any more information will risk the
negative 1,000 point penalty). Note that this verbal message can be delivered forward
at any time. For example, if C's problem is " Evaluate C=100/(2-B)" ,
and B passes "B=2" to C, C can immediately request another answer (but provide no
other information about how they know B's answer cannot be correct ).
Also note: should any of A , B or C realize a mistake after passing an answer, they can
immediately pass another answer back at any time (again, this pass
must only be in the form B = " a number", with no further elaboration, or risk the
penalty). Members B , C and D do not have to wait on the backward pass to
begin work on their problem (they might be able to do some initial work which will
expedite their solution once getting the pass-back).
There will be three different rounds of relays, each with a ten-minute time limit.
Scoring: First team to complete the relay - 100 points, second team- 75 points, all
other teams completing in less than nine minutes- 50 points, with a
negative five point deduction for each incorrect submission. Topics for the 2009
Relays: TBA Round 1: ________, Round 2:
________, Round 3: ________
Calculators are not allowed during the ciphering and relay events.
5. Awards:
Individual Awards are based solely on the written test.
The Top Ten individuals will be recognized as well as the top individual from each
classification if the individual did not finish in the overall top ten.
Team Awards are based on the sum of the top four written scores, plus better of each
team's ciphering, and relay points.
The Top Five overall teams will be recognized as well as the top team from each
classification if the team did not finish in the top five overall top five.
The Love Awardswill be given to the most improved school and most improved
individual. As Woodward Academy chose to honor the memory of the
late Dr. Dwight W. Love of Greater Atlanta Christian, we will continue that tradition.
Obviously, only teams and individuals who participated in last year's
tournament are eligible for these two awards.
6. Directions:
Coming from the South: Take I-75 North to Exit 267A (Canton Rd/Hwy 5). Continue East on Canton Rd for 5 miles. Turn Right onto Jamerson Rd.
Go 1/2 mile and turn right onto Lee Waters Road. Park anywhere you choose, but you will need to enter the front of the school.
Coming from the North: Take I-75 South to Exit 273 (Wade Green Rd). Turn Right, go 1/10 mile and turn Left onto Shiloh Rd. Continue straight for
5.5 miles (Shiloh Rd. will become Shallowford Rd.). When you cross Canton Rd, the road you are on will become Jamerson Rd. Go 1/2 mile and turn
right onto Lee Waters Road. Park anywhere you choose, but you will need to enter the front of the school.
For reference you can download and print this Area Map.
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