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UGA 2024 High School Math Tournament

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Zell B. Miller Learning Center- UGA Campus
The University of Georgia Department of Mathematics and Math Club will be sponsoring a High School Mathematics Tournament on Saturday, October 26th, 2024 in the Zell B. Miller Learning Center on the UGA Campus. 
 
  • Each school may enter from one to three 4-student teams, who will compete in the usual written and ciphering rounds. (Fewer than four persons may compete as a team, with missing members being awarded scores of zero.)
  • Individuals without a team can participate as well.
  • Each school is limited to 3 teams or 12 students totalno exceptions
Participation Fee:
 $35/team 
 $15/individual participant 
 $5/(number of chaperones over 1) 
+ $5 (if paid after October 7) 

After registering, you will receive an email with payment details.
Payment includes breakfast and snacks but not lunch. All participants can have lunch at Bolton dining commons, which is across the street, for the modicum of $12.20 per person.
The email will also include forms that need to be completed.

SCHEDULE:

·  8:00-8:45  Registration
·  9:00-9:30   Ciphering
·  9:40-11:10  Written test
·  11:10-12:30  Lunch/Refreshments
·  12:30-1:30 Team round
·  2:00-2:30  Awards ceremony
 

FORMAT

  1. The ciphering round will consist of 10 problems. 10 points will be awarded for each correct answer given in two minutes.
  2. The written test will consist of 25 multiple-choice problems of increasing difficulty, from relatively easy to very hard. 10 points will be awarded for each correct answer, 2 points for each question left unanswered, and 0 point for each incorrect answer.
  3. The final round will be a team collaboration, with a total of 200 points.

No calculators will be allowed in any of the rounds. The individual winners will be determined on the basis of the first two rounds, and all three rounds will count towards the team competition.

PRIZES

The top five winners will get cash prizes, 100,80,60,40 and $20 respectively. There will be also small prizes for other high-scoring individuals and best teams.

PARKING

The Miller Learning Center is located in the center of the campus, next to the Tate Student Center and UGA Bookstore, and across from Sanford Stadium. By car, it is best approached from South Lumpkin Street and there is a bus stop there to drop off the students. Parking is available at the nearby Tate Center Two, and across the street at Legion Pool (parking zone W06). Ample parking is available at the parking lot E01 near the Intramural Fields off College Station Road. 

Click here for more information on campus parking options

Hall of Fame

Winners of the last and previous tournaments: 

2023, 2022, 2021 (special format), 20192018201720162015, 20142013201220112010200920082007200620052004200320022001

Statistics: 2023, 2022, 20192018201720162015, 20142013201220112010200920082007200620052004200320022001.

Some pictures from the tournaments: 201320122011, 2010, 2009, 20082007200620052004.

Tests and solutions

Tests from the last and the previous years are available here:

2023
Student version: cipheringwritten and team rounds
With solutions: cipheringwritten and team rounds 

2022
Student version: cipheringwritten and team rounds
With solutions: cipheringwritten and team rounds 

2021 (problems with solutions)
Round #1, #2, #3

2019
Student version: cipheringwritten and team rounds
With solutions: cipheringwritten and team rounds 

2018
Student version: cipheringwritten and team rounds
With solutions: cipheringwritten and team rounds 

2017
Student version: cipheringwritten and team rounds
With solutions: cipheringwritten and team rounds 

2016
Student version: cipheringwritten and team rounds
With solutions: cipheringwritten and team rounds 

2015
Student version: cipheringwritten and team rounds
With solutions: cipheringwritten and team rounds 

2014
Student version: cipheringwritten and team rounds
With solutions: cipheringwritten and team rounds 

2013
Student version: cipheringwritten and team rounds
With solutions: cipheringwritten and team rounds 

2012
Student version: cipheringwritten and team rounds
With solutions: cipheringwritten and team rounds

2011
Student version: cipheringwritten and team rounds
With solutions: cipheringwritten and team rounds

2010
Student version: cipheringwritten and team rounds
With solutions: cipheringwritten and team rounds

2009
Student version: cipheringwritten and team rounds
With solutions: cipheringwritten and team rounds

2008
Student version: cipheringwritten and team rounds
With solutions: cipheringwritten and team rounds

2007
Student version: cipheringwritten and team rounds
With solutions: cipheringwritten and team rounds

2006
Student version: cipheringwritten and team rounds
With solutions: cipheringwritten and team rounds

2005
Student version: cipheringwritten and team rounds
With solutions: cipheringwritten and team rounds

2004
Student version: cipheringwritten and team rounds
With solutions: cipheringwritten and team rounds

2003
Student version: cipheringwritten and team rounds
With solutions: cipheringwritten and team rounds

2002 
Student version: cipheringwritten and team rounds.
With solutions: cipheringwritten and team rounds.

2001 
Student version: ciphering (with answers)written and team rounds.
Answers: written and team rounds.

Contact Information

Current Organizers

Jimmy Dillies- Jimmy.Dillies@uga.edu
Paul Pollack- Pollack@uga.edu

 

2013-2022, the tournament was organized by Mo Hendon and Paul Pollack. 

2001-2012, the tournament was organized by Valery Alexeev, Ted Shifrin, and Boris Alexeev.

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