7 days to AMC 10B/12B | AMC Advantage
As the clock winds down for the AMC 10B and AMC 12B contests on Feburary 19th, "AMC Advantage" is being used by AMC contestants all over the world to prepare for the contests. AMC Advantage consists of 4 'on-demand' mock contests along with comprehensive performance reporting. I encourage all of you to alert your students to this opportunity. Enrollment is now open at amc-advantage.com
Steve Dunbar
Director of Competitions, Math Association of America
Math Awareness Month Poster
Mathematics Awareness Month—April 2014—celebrates "Mathematics, Magic, and Mystery." A high resolution version of the official poster can be downloaded and printed from Download the PDF of the full-size poster (8 MB). If you'd like one mailed to you instead, the Poster Order form can be used to order a poster, one per order, US and Canada orders only, while supplies last. Then, throughout April, look for 30 days of magical, mysterious, mathematical phenomena, conveyed through video, articles, and other materials, at the website mathaware.org. This offer is made possible thanks to a generous donation from Nancy Blachman, founder of the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival.
PREP Workshop: Making the Transition: Moving Students from Success on AMC 12 to AIME—June 16-20, 2014 in Lincoln, NE
This workshop, sponsored by the MAA Special Interest Group on Teaching Advanced High School Mathematics, will assist high school mathematics coaches in preparing students for the AIME exams and two-year and small liberal arts college faculty in preparing students for the Putnam exam. In preparation for the workshop, participants will work through problem sets and critique student solutions. The onsite component will focus on two central themes: how to solve problems and how to teach how to solve
problems. The workshop will offer extended support to teachers and their students.
For more information or to register, please visit MAA PREP.
Dolciani Mathematics Enrichment Grants (DMEG)
The Mary P. Dolciani Halloran Foundation has provided funding for the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) to award grants for projects designed to develop mathematical enrichment programs for talented students in middle school or high school. The goal of the program is to interest students who are ready for more challenge in the study of mathematics and encourage them to further their mathematical studies.
Proposals are sought from college and university mathematical sciences faculty working in partnership with middle and/or high school mathematics teachers. Interested middle and high school teachers are strongly encouraged to seek out college and university mathematic sciences faculty in the formulation of proposals to benefit middle and high school students. The Foundation is particularly interested in projects originating from the middle or high schools.
Tensor-SUMMA Grants and Tensor Women and Mathematics Grants
The Tensor Foundation has provided funding for the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) to award grants for projects designed to encourage the pursuit and enjoyment of mathematics among female and underrepresented minority middle school, high school, and beginning college students. College and university mathematics faculty and their institutions may submit proposals. They should collaborate with middle school and high school mathematics teachers as appropriate. Proposed programs may replicate
existing successful programs, adapt components of such programs, or be entirely new.
For more information on grants to support underrepresented minorities in mathematics, please visit Tensor-SUMMA Grants. |
