The Log 1 Contest provides an excellent opportunity for a school
to participate in a competition similar to our National Convention
contests and compete against schools from across the country and the world,
while staying right at their home school.
The 2007-2008 Mu Alpha Log 1 Contest will be a
pen and paper format and will again be run by the Mount Rainier High School Math Team, MRHS.
Information about the contest is at their website:
http://log1.wamath.net. Teachers will go here to
register their school for the competition after October 9, 2007.
The 2007-2008 contest will consist of three rounds. The first round will consist of three Topic Tests
covering the topics of “Geometry”, “Applications”, or “Logarithms and Exponents”; topics appearing
at multiple levels at the 2008 National Convention in Sacramento. Each Topic Test will consist of
fifteen open-answer problems to be solved without a calculator in thirty minutes. In each case,
correct responses on the first five questions are worth 4 points, 5 points for questions 6 through 10
and the last five questions are each worth 6 points.
The second round of the contest will be a Ciphering Test consisting of ten one-problem rounds of
general open-answer problems to be solved without a calculator.
Students are allowed to turn in answer sheets during the 1st (9 points), 2nd (7 points) or 3rd (5 points) minutes.
The third test will be a 15-problem, 30-minute, individual test of general mathematics
knowledge. Problems, to be solved without a calculator, range from easy to difficult,
to provide confidence and challenges to all students. Problem selection and scoring
will be the same as the topic tests.
The goals for each test is to have enough easy problems that students new to competition
are not discouraged and enough hard problems that experienced competitors are challenged
and can be distinguished from one another by score for the purposes of awards.
Materials will be sent by electronic mail (pdf formatted) to participants,
requiring them to do their own photocopying.
Each student test score will be scaled to account for varying test difficulty. The
test score will be divided by the maximum test score for that test and math division
and multiplied by 100. A student’s overall score will be the sum of their scaled scores
on the three tests and will thus be a whole number between zero and three hundred.
MRHS will provide awards for high-scoring individuals and schools, including:
The top ten individuals in each division in each region (based upon the sum of their
scaled scores on the three tests) will receive a plaque and the next fifteen will
receive a certificate. If two or more students have the same overall score, ties
will be broken in favor of the student with the higher minimum score on the three
tests, then in favor of the student with the higher score on the Individual test.
If this process can't break a tie, all tied students will receive the highest of
the awards in question.
The top ten schools in each region will receive plaques. School awards will be given
in each region based upon their overall scores, which will be the sum of the school's
two top student overall scaled scores in each division (a total of six students).
If two or more schools have the same overall score, ties will be broken in favor of
the school with the highest minimum scores among the six student scores totaled, then
in favor of the school with the highest scores for students not among the six used
to determine the school's overall score.
This year, Mu Alpha Theta will offer a Convention Grant to the top school in each region!
A Convention Grant provides two free registrations to the National Convention in Sacramento and up to $500 in
transportation reimbursement. This summer, each grant is worth $1650!
MRHS shall post Round 1 and Round 2 interim results after each round to their website
and should have final award recipient information to Mu Alpha Theta by April 15, 2008.
Round 1 material will be available for download on December 1, 2007. The test is to be downloaded,
administered and test scores uploaded by December 15, 2007.
Round 2 material will be available for download on January 15, 2008. The test is to be downloaded,
administered and test scores uploaded by January 31, 2008.
Round 3 material will be available for download on March 1, 2008. The test is to be downloaded,
administered and test scores uploaded by March 15, 2008.
If a school is unable to participate on an official test date, they may test on an alternate date
by making arrangements with MRHS.
The Log I contest is FREE, but participation is restricted to schools
with active Mu Alpha Theta chapters. All students at the school may participate in the contest,
but only Full or Associate members of Mu Alpha Theta are eligible for prizes. Sponsors are responsible for
entering the names of their eligible members by March 20, 2008, if they want students to
be eligible for prizes.
Students compete only against other students with similar math course background.
- Mu division is for students who are taking a Calculus course.
Mu students are responsible for knowing topics in all divisions.
- Alpha division is for students who are in math courses above
Algebra 2 but who have not taken calculus. No calculus is to be included at this level.
- Theta division is for students who are in Algebra 2. There will be no
trigonometry questions other than right triangle trigonometry or law of sines and
law of cosines. These students will have completed Algebra 1 and Geometry.
Questions? Email Kay at matheta@ou.edu. or call at 405-325-4489