Math Team

MATHCOUNTS is the premiere U.S. competition and enrichment program that motivates and rewards middle school students for math achievement. It includes participants in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, U.S. Territories, and State Department and Defense Department schools. The competition is an annual showcase for the knowledge, skill, speed, and teamwork of America's most gifted and dedicated young mathematicians.

How to succeed in Mathcounts: PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE

You will learn a ton of math tricks in the after school sessions. There are also a plethora of online materials that you should advantage of, these include:

Mathcounts APP

Mathcounts Trainer

Download this free APP on your phone. Play it often for great practice!

‎MATHCOUNTS Trainer‎Train your way to Nationals with the free MATHCOUNTS Trainer presented by Art of Problem Solving! With thousands of problems from previous School, Chapter, State, and National MATHCOUNTS competitions, the Trainer is great practice for aspiring MATHCOUNTS Mathletes of all levels. Full solutions are…

Mathcounts Minis

The Art of Problem Solving

Mathcounts Tips and Tricks

Online Problems

DeltaMath - we will use this website for some problem sets.

Sign in here: https://www.deltamath.com/students?code=YV8G-Y3QR

Khan Academy - learn new math concepts easily

Sign me up as a coach using Class code:

https://www.khanacademy.org/join/NE68E3PS

Try to make it through the exercises below:

Probability

Factors and multiples

Analytic geometry

Data distributions

Mathcounts Drills - more Mathcounts problems

Mathcounts Competition - from last year

Other Math Resources

RMS MATHCOUNTS MEETING SCHEDULE:

Mondays 3:00-4:00PM

Location: Room 802

What to bring: Pencils, Calculator

Coach Wharton has been coaching Mathcounts at the Wheeler School in Providence RI for the past 19 years. He has coached the Rhode Island team at the National Competition 9 times and has worked with dozens of National Finalists. He recently moved to Hanover with his family and he's excited to coach the RMS Mathcounts team. When he's not teaching or coaching math, or making calculator videos, he can usually be found playing football, soccer, hockey, or skiing with his three boys. He also loves playing frisbee with his golden retriever, Buddy.

Fun Fact #1: Coach Wharton has run 15 marathons including 7 Boston Marathons. His oldest son will be running Boston this year on his birthday!

Fun Fact #2: Coach Wharton is learning the bass guitar, but his favorite instrument to play is the didjeridu.

Math can often feel like playing a game, like chess. You wouldn't have much success in chess if you didn't know how the pieces moved. So first you need to learn the rules, but just knowing the rules won't get you very far. You also need to learn strategies. To have success in your math classes, you need to learn mathematical formulas and then also learn problem solving strategies for how to solve difficult problems. Mathcounts problems are more like mathematical puzzles. To stick with the chess analogy, the problems would be similar to chess puzzles that you see in newspapers that ask you to find mate in 2. If you enjoy puzzles, and also enjoy math, then Mathcounts is the place for you!

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