2015-16 San Diego Chapter MATHCOUNTS
Information Sheet – January 23, 2016 Version
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Competition Date:
Saturday, February 27, 2016
Time:
Location:
8 AM – 3:00 PM
University of California, San Diego
Warren Lecture Hall
(Matthews Lane)
San Diego, CA 92093
See
http://www.cspeef.com/sandiego.html
for information, forms, results
Contact Information
San Diego Chapter MATHCOUNTS Coordinator, Peter Livingston, Phone (858) 663-6989
Email: [email protected]
State MATHCOUNTS Coordinator, Cliff Ishii, [email protected]
Take I-5 to the La Jolla Village Drive exit (west). Turn right (north) onto Villa La Jolla Drive.
Park in the Gilman Parking Structure at the corner of Gilman Drive and Villa La Jolla Drive
(see map above). Parking is free. Do not parking in reserved parking spaces. Walk north
along Russell Drive to Lyman Avenue. Continue on sidewalk west of the High Bay Physics
Lab. Warren Lecture Hall is on the north side of Matthews Drive. Price Center, where lunch
is served, is at the west end of Mathews Drive (see maps below).
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Registration
Check-in will be at Room 2005 Warren Lecture Hall.
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Student Supplies
Students must bring their own pencils and calculators. Use of any device with a QWERTY
keyboard, including cellphones is not permitted. Scratch paper will be provided at the event.
Site Access
Students and Coaches are not allowed inside the Grader’s Room at any time. Coaches and
guests are not allowed in the testing rooms from the start of the Sprint Round to the end of the
Team Round. Warren Lecture Hall #2001 will not be accessible until 1 pm. Coaches and
guests can use the Price Center as a waiting area during the morning testing.
Competitors
29 Schools Registered (x = competed last year)
Albert Einstein Academies Charter Middle School
Bishops School x
Black Mountain Middle School x
Cambridge School
Carmel Valley Middle School x
Del Mar Pines School x
Design39Campus
Diegueno Junior High x
Discovery Charter School x
Earl Warren Middle School x
Francis Parker Middle School x
Keiller Leadership Academy
La Jolla Country Day School
Magnolia Science Academy x
Meadowbrook Middle School x
Mesa Verde Middle School x
Mount Everest Academy
Oak Valley Middle School x
Ocean Air School
Pacific Ridge School x
Pacific Trails Middle School
Poway Home Education Program x
Rhoades School x
San Elijo Middle School
Santa Fe Christian Schools x
Sauberan Homeschool
Solana Ranch Elementary x
Sycamore Ridge School x
Thurgood Marshall Middle School x
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Expected student participation
100
137
237
Team Members (25 teams)
Individuals
Total
Schedule
Time
8 am to 8:45 am
8:30 am
8:45 am
9:30 am
9:30 am to 10:10 am
10:20 am to 10:50 am
11:00 am to 11:20 am
11:30 am to 1:30 pm
1:30 pm to 2:15 pm
2:15 pm to 3:00 pm
Activity
Registration
Proctor Training
Coaches Meeting
Grader Training
Sprint Round (10-minute break)
Target Round (10-minute break)
Team Round
Lunch
Countdown Round
Awards/State Advancement
Location
Warren Lecture Hall #2005
Warren Lecture Hall #2114
Warren Lecture Hall #2112
Warren Lecture Hall #2204
See Room Assignments below
See Room Assignments below
See Room Assignments below
Round Table Pizza/Price Center
Warren Lecture Hall 2001
Warren Lecture Hall 2001
Testing Room Assignments/Other Room Assignments
Warren
Lecture Hall
2005
Warren
Lecture
Hall 2112
Warren
Lecture
Hall 2114
Warren
Lecture Hall
2206
Warren
Lecture
Hall 2208
Warren
Lecture
Hall 2209
Warren
Lecture Hall
2001
Individuals
All
Individuals
Bishops
School
Discovery
Charter
School
Teams
Magnolia
Science
Academy
Ocean Air
School
Santa Fe
Christian
Schools
Countdown
Round &
Awards &
State
Advancement
Black
Mountain
Middle
School
Carmel
Valley
Middle
School
Del Mar
Pines
Earl
Warren
Middle
School
Francis
Parker
Middle
School
Keiller
Leadership
Academy
La Jolla
Country
Day
School
Meadowbrook
Middle School
Pacific
Ridge
School
Solana
Ranch
Mesa Verde
Middle School
Pacific
Trails
Middle
School
Rhoades
School
Sycamore
Ridge
School
Design39
Campus
Mount Everest
Academy
Oak Valley
Middle School
San Elijo
Middle
School
The
Cambridge
School
Thurgood
Marshall
Middle
School
Warren
Lecture
Hall
2204
Grading
Room
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Substitutions
A Roster Form must be submitted in advance as indicated below. Coaches may substitute
Team Members or Individuals until the close of registration on the day of the San Diego
Chapter Competition.
Testing Format
An announcement will be made at around 9:15 am telling the students where to report for the
Sprint Round. The proctor will lead them to the rooms. The Individuals will compete in a
different room than the team members. The procedure for each test will be presented by the
proctor. Proctors will allow students to leave the testing room during the breaks. Individuals
can form informal teams to take the team test, if they desire, but only the raw score will be
provided. The Countdown Round is a fast-paced one-on-one competition. If guests can only
be at one part of the event, this is it. The rules for the Countdown Round will be presented to
the students and audience. Please refer to the MATHCOUNTS Handbook for rules and
formats for all tests. The Coordinator will make all decisions affecting the results of the
competition. Coaches can pick up their tally sheets after the awards are given. The
MATHCOUNTS Coordinator makes final decisions on the rules interpretations and scoring
questions.
Advancement to State
South California Competition at UC Irvine on March 12, 2016. The teams and individuals that
will advance to state competition will be announced at the conclusion of the awards ceremony.
Coaches for teams advancing to state and Individuals advancing to state will be contacted by
the State MATHCOUNTS Coordinator for further information.
The top four (4) teams will advance to State based on overall Team scores at the Chapter
Competition. If the winner of the Chapter Competition is a magnet school and/or has won the
Chapter Competition for the second consecutive year one additional team will be allowed to
advance to the State Competition. No more than one additional team per chapter is allowed to
advance in this manner.
The top five (5) students, who are not on an advancing School Team, will advance based on
the individual score (Sprint and Target Round only).
Details can be found at:
http://www.cspeef.com/MathCountsRulesForAdvancementToState.pdf
May 7-10, 2015 - Raytheon MATHCOUNTS National Competition in Washington DC
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Countdown Round
The Countdown Round will pit the top 16 individual scorers against each other in a “Sweet
16” format. The students will be completing only for awards. The results of the Countdown
Round will not have an impact on advancement to State. Student may decline to compete. In
this case, the next highest scorer will be allowed to compete. We usually run through last
year’s questions informally prior to this round in the same room.
Awards
Team (one for each student) – 1st to 4th
Team Coach – 1st to 4th
Individual – 1st to 8th
Individual Coach – 1st to 8th
Countdown Round – 1st to 4th
Countdown Round Coach -1st to 4th
Most Improved School
Best New School
Restrooms
Restrooms are available in Warren Lecture Hall and Price Center
Coach/Guest Activities
Visitors typically socialize, read a book or solve math problems while testing takes place.
What Coaches need to do prior to the competition
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Use the practice problems at http://www.mathcounts.org/past-competitions
Send in a Roster Form to the Coordinator by February 19, 2016
Provide guests with directions to UCSD
Insure students know the date of the State Competition (March 12, 2016 at UC-Irvine)
to avoid conflicts. The national competition takes place May 7-10, 2016
What Coaches need to do on the day of the competition
1. Make sure all students are checked in
2. Make sure students understand that Team Members and Individuals from the same
school will be competing in different rooms.
3. Attend the coaches meeting at 8:45 am
4. Help make sure students get back into the rooms promptly after breaks
5. Inform students about staggering lunch times to avoid overcrowding
6. Stress that students are not to verbalize answers during the Countdown Round
7. Pick up your Tally Sheets after the awards ceremony
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Food
Food and drinks (except bottled water) are not allowed in classrooms or lecture halls. We will
host pizza (two slices) and sodas at Round Table Pizza at Price Center after the morning
testing for students, guests, coaches and volunteers. We ask that the independent students go
to Round Table Pizza for lunch immediately after the Target Round followed by the team
students after the Team Round. Volunteers, Coaches and Guests can go to Round Table Pizza
between 11 am and 12:30 pm. The Price Center food court will be open for other food and
drink, at your cost, and is a 3 minute walk.
2015 San Diego MATHCOUNTS Competition Results [February 28, 2015]
Top 4 Teams (Top four teams advanced to State)
Carmel Valley Middle School/Coach-David Vaughan
Raymond Li, Ronak Roy, Tristan Shin, Adam Zheng
Oak Valley Middle School/Coach-Ashok Krishnamoorthy
Vinod Krishamoorthy, Derek Lam, Crystal Wang, Skyler Wu
Black Mountain Middle School/Coach-Duy Nguyen
Mingda He, Dana Nguyen, Nicole Nguyen, Berke Terzioglu
Mesa Verde Middle School/Coach-Lei Ni
Amy Bu, Daniel Xu, Song Yang, Steven Zhang
Top 8 Students (Written Only)
Adam Zhang, Carmel Valley
Dana Nguyen, Black Mountain
Vinod Krishamoorthy, Oak Valley
Crystal Wang, Oak Valley
Derek Lam, Oak Valley
Tristan Shin, Carmel Valley
Michael Chen, Carmel Valley
Monica Liu, Muirlands Middle School/Coach-Paul Latta
Students Advancing to State (Not Part of Team)
Michael Chen, Carmel Valley
Monica Liu, Muirlands
Rochana Madhukara, Carmel Valley
Ben Lou, Poway Home Education Program/Coach-Jenny Huang
Ananth Rao, Carmel Valley
Top 4 Countdown Round Students
Derek Lam, Oak Valley
Tristan Shin, Carmel Valley
Dana Nguyen, Black Mountain
Nicole Nguyen, Black Mountain
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Most Improved School
Thurgood Marshall Middle School/Coach-Raksesh Verma
Best New School
Solana Ranch/Coach-Thomas Sun
2016 Competition Results
Public results will be posted on the web site http://www.cspeef.com/sandiego.html and mailed
to coaches by the following weekend.
Making This Happen
The San Diego competition is organized and executed largely through unpaid volunteers.
UCSD provides the venue for free. Local engineering societies donate funds for the awards,
food, equipment, rentals, supplies and post-event mailings. The Greater San Diego Area Math
Council publicizes the event. We usually have a speaker tell the students about the
engineering profession, as MATHCOUNTS was founded by the National Society of
Professional Engineers.
Sponsors
UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering
Greater San Diego Math Council
ASHRAE-San Diego
California Society of Professional Engineers – San Diego
Society of Women Engineers – San Diego
American Society of Civil Engineers – San Diego
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers – San Diego
Publicity
Local news organizations will be invited to the event.