The club participates in the Tournament of Towns ("T of T"), a Russian competition, in November and March. We will also participate in this year's four-part Mandelbrot Competition (the first round will be in October; sign up at our September meeting). Road trips include the Duke Math Meet in the fall, and the College of Charleston Math Meet in February. The December meeting is a pizza & welcome-back-alumni event, and we gather in May for an end-of-year picnic.
Students work in two separate groups: a junior group generally consisting of students in Pre-algebra, Algebra 1, and in some cases Geometry, and a senior group consisting of students in Geometry, Algebra 2, Pre-Calculus and Calculus. (This year the junior group will participate in the 7th and 8th grade division of the MOEMS problem solving contest.) We encourage participants to choose the group that best fits their mathematical level.
| September 16 | February 10 |
| October 14 | February 23--24 (Charleston) |
| November 18 (T. of Towns) | March 10 (T. of Towns) |
| December 16 (10 am - 1 pm) | April 21 |
| January 13 | May 19 (picnic; time/place TBA). |
The Art of Problem Solving Foundation (AoPS; a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation) has accepted the Charlotte Mathematics Club as part of their Local Programs Initiative. This means that donors to AoPS can designate that their donation go to the Charlotte Math Club. (The Foundation's overhead for this service is 2% of the designated contributions.) Follow the link on the CMC homepage to make an online donation to AoPS; remember to enter the Charlotte Math Club as the designated recipient of your donation. Thank you!
The CMC sells copies of The Art of Problem Solving (Volumes 1 & 2, and solutions; by Sandor Lehoczky and Richard Rusczyk) as a fundraiser, courtesy of a generous donation from Richard Rusczyk. These books are an excellent resource for problem solving skills and practice problems. See the AoPS Bookstore for announcements of other AoPS books.
There are no dues, although each student is asked to bring $1 to the December meeting to be used for a thank you gift for PDS. The CMC is indebted to those that have donated time, space and funds. PDS has been a gracious host for many years, and we are the beneficiaries of the generous contributions from Dale Halton, Richard Rusczyk, coauthor of The Art of Problem Solving, and other, anonymous, benefactors. Thanks also to supportive parents and other friends of the club.
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Summer Ventures and the N.C. School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM) are opportunities that many of our club members have found rewarding. Summer Ventures is a four-week residential summer program in math and science for rising 11th and 12th graders, hosted by a number of North Carolina univeristies. NCSSM is a public residential high school (grades 11 and 12) in Durham with a challenging curriculum centered on science and mathematics. Both Summer Ventures and NCSSM are free to NC residents via a competitive admissions process. The deadline for applications to either program is in January, so start looking into these great opportunities now!
The Mecklenburg Math Club (MMC) is a group for students of grades 4 through 6. Local teachers and mathematicians lead the students in problem-solving sessions and other interesting math-related activities. This year, the MMC will again participate in the Mathematical Olympiads for Elementary Schools (MOEMS). The MMC-South Chapter will meet at PDS from 9:30 to noon on the same dates as our club. Contact Janelle Penisten or see the MMC website for more information.
The American Mathematics Contest->8 (AMC->8) will be administered in schools on Tuesday, November 14. Remind your math teacher about the AMC->8; the deadline for registration is mid-October. (AMC->10 and AMC->12 day will be either Tuesday, February 6, 2007, or Wednesday, February 21, 2007.)
The MATHCOUNTS Piedmont Chapter competition at UNCC's Cone Center will be in February; the State competition will be in March at NCSSM.
The USA Mathematical Talent Search (USAMTS) is a free mathematics competition open to all United States high school students. Many CMC members have enjoyed this competition in the past; the problems are varied and interesting, and the contest organizers are responsive. Students may enter the competition at any time of the academic year; registration and instructions for how to participate are at the USAMTS website.
Some of our members also compete in the (internet-based) USA Computing Olympiad (USACO). There are fall, winter, and spring programming contests; more information (including dates!) is available at the USACO website.
| Determine all ways to complete the grid so that each of the numbers 1, 2, 3, ..., 12 is used exactly once, and each 4-term row or column has sum 26. Explain why you have all of the solutions. |
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| Stephen Davis: | 704-894-2343 (w) 704-892-1394 (h) 704-894-2005 (fax) | stdavis@davidson.edu |
| Harold Reiter: | 704-687-4561 (w) 704-364-5699 (h) 704-687-6415 (fax) | hbreiter@email.uncc.edu |
| Susan Schaeffer: | 704-552-2869 (h) | oaktreemath@earthlink.net |
| Arvo Kaseorg: | 704-544-9597 (h) | arvo@carolina.rr.com |
| CMC homepage: | http://www.davidson.edu/math/cmc | |