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Welcome to MOEMS 2007–2008

 

 

Dear PICO,

Welcome to our 29^th year of competition. Many leading teachers believe that solving problems is the best way to teach — and learn — mathematics. The Mathematical Olympiads for Elementary and Middle Schools (MOEMS) is built upon this foundation.

 

PICO stands for Person In Charge of Olympiads.  That's you — the person who will devote time, effort, and energy regularly to help your Olympians grow as problem solvers. We salute your commitment to help your students “be all that they can be” and extend our best wishes for an exciting, challenging, enjoyable, and mathematically worthwhile year.

 

This initial packet is designed to help you become aware of some details of MOEMS and to help you prepare your students for the Olympiad contests.

 

Here are three basic points to start:

 

®         COMMUNICATIONS: It is important that you study the following information carefully, since you chose to receive all materials (including practice material and the contests) and submit all student data (including the scoring) via the OnLine Scoring System. For every team there are two critical identification codes. Both codes are needed before our computers can accept a student’s scores.Firstly, your 4-digit Team Identification Code (TID), which we assign, tells our computers which file is reserved for your team. Similarly, the 2-digit Student Identification Code (SID), which is the line number you assign to the student, tells our computers which line of your team’s file is reserved for a given student. These codes must be used on every communication.

 

®                  CONTEST DATES:

 

2007 - 2008

	November	December	January	February	March
Division E	20*	11	15	5	4
Division M	14*	12	16	6	5

*NOTE: School holidays on Nov 13, 22, and 23 make the two Olympiad #1s fall on nonconsecutive days for the first time.

 

If you cannot administer a contest on the scheduled date, do so on a proximate date. The first paragraph of the September Newsletter contains some additional information.

-Record these dates on your calendar now-

 

®       CONTESTS: All contests will be posted to our web site one week before the scheduled Olympiad date. We will send you an e-mail reminder at that time. Print out enough copies of the first two pages (the problems) for all participants. Print out one copy of the next two pages (the solutions) for grading the Olympiad. Keep the questions secret until you give the Olympiad; keep the solutions secret until you collect the student papers.

 

Included in this packet are the following items:

1.       Organization and Procedures (the Olympiad contest rules)

2.       Message to Parents (to help build support for the Olympiads)

3.       “What Every Young Mathlete Should Know” (definitions of terms used on the contests)

4.       Additional Study Resources

a.       Book: Math Olympiads Contest Problems vol 2

b.       Book: Math Olympiads Contest Problems for Elementary and Middle Schools

c.       Book: Creative Problem Solving in School Mathematics 2nd Edition

d.       Game: Math-Tac-Toe (A game of strategy that builds multiplication skills)

5.       Enthusiasm builders

a.       Team T-shirts, caps, pennants

b.       Extra trophies (for end of year; one trophy is included in entry fee)

c.       "Honorable Mention" trophies (to give special recognition to special students)

6.       End-of-Year Survey (to be posted later in year)