For more information concerning The TOURNAMENT, please contact us at info@moems.org

THE MAIN FEATURES TO YOU:

• This is YOUR GROUP’s tournament.
• Benefits to your group:
  • enhance your group’s reputation for promoting excellence in mathematics
  • introduce an organization to teachers and administrators unfamiliar with it
  • recruit new members; and recruit new workers
  • fundraising
• Involves several teams or schools to compete face-to-face at one site on one day.
• Students from different grades (4, 5, & 6) or (7 & 8) can be mixed on each of the 5-member teams because the problems require mathematical thinking, not knowledge of any specific curriculum.
• There are 3 rounds and an awards ceremony.
  • INDIVIDUAL ROUND: each student works alone on 10 timed short-answer problems.
  • TEAM ROUND: all five team members work cooperatively on another 10 timed short-answer problems.
  • PLAYOFF ROUND: up to 5 additional problems with time constraints break ties for awards.
• All problems (with detailed solutions and an answer key) are supplied by MOEMS and are non-routine short answer questions.
• The 4-hour, 30-minute schedule includes time after each event to discuss solutions, an important feature.
• Its modest cost ensures that it can be used as a fundraiser for your organization.
• MOEMS provides electronic tournament-ready masters for five major components
• The Tournament Handbook, a very thorough reference manual, walks your tournament committee through every aspect of mounting a tournament, including that of recruiting new workers. It addresses a wide range of procedures and subtle decisions that need to be made, including:
• how to recruit workers and team
• how to handle every aspect of preparation
• how to efficiently conduct each facet of the tournament day itself
• how to follow up afterwards.