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Today is Pi Day! Below are a few questions to celebrate. If June ate 1/4 of 2/3 of 1/2 of a pie, what fraction of the whole pie did she eat? Express your answer as a common fraction. To determine what...

Darcy has two part-time jobs during her summer vacation. She works part-time as a counselor at a local day camp, and she has another part-time job as a lifeguard at the community swimming pool. Darcy...

Every year on the third Monday of January, we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Dr. King was a civil rights activist whose passion and leadership led to great cultural changes in America. On Aug...

With the 2022 Chapter Competition coming up next week, here are some problems from the 2021 Chapter and Chapter Invitational Competitions for extra practice! (Note: The structure of the 2021...

The MATHCOUNTS Club sponsor at your school is planning a pizza party for the club’s 10 Mathletes to kick off the year. The local pizza place has medium and large as the two size options for ordering...

Ariel, Ollie and Eden are going trick-or-treating for Halloween, but first their parents are taking them to a costume store to pick out costumes. The store has 9 different costume options available –...

On January 26, 1905, a 3,106-carat diamond was discovered in Pretoria, South Africa. Weighing nearly 1.5 pounds, the Cullinan, as it was named, is the largest diamond ever found. Since the greatest...

In honor of Engineers Week, we’re posting a throwback to a sampling of previous years’ Future Engineers Problems of the Day. Join us next week for all new engineering-themed Problems of the Day for...

In June, MATHCOUNTS joined the Data Science 4 Every­one Commitment Campaign to build capacity for K-12 data science ed­ucation. As part of this commitment, MATHCOUNTS will create and share additional...

Did you know that May 20th is the official birthday of “blue jeans”? It was on May 20, 1873 that Levi Strauss and David Jacobs received patent number 139,121 from the US Patent and Trademark Office...