- Percents and Fractions
- Plane Geometry
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...
- Plane Geometry
- Problem Solving (Misc.)
- Proportional Reasoning
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...
- Percents and Fractions
- Plane Geometry
- Probability, Counting and Combinatorics
- Solid Geometry
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 –...
- Algebraic Expressions and Equations
- Problem Solving (Misc.)
- Proportional Reasoning
Geomatics engineering is all about geographic information. Geomatics engineers collect this data (such as dimensions of plots of land, details of natural land formations, elevation, angles and...
- Algebraic Expressions and Equations
- General Math
- Probability, Counting and Combinatorics
- Solid Geometry
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...
- Algebraic Expressions and Equations
- Probability, Counting and Combinatorics
- Statistics and Data
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...
- Probability, Counting and Combinatorics
- Proportional Reasoning
- Solid Geometry
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...
- Probability, Counting and Combinatorics
On the game show Wheel of Fortune®, contestants spin a wheel, like the one shown here, to determine how much money will be won for solving the puzzle. What is the probability that a contestant spins...
- Probability, Counting and Combinatorics
- Problem Solving (Misc.)
- Proportional Reasoning
- Sequences, Series and Patterns
Chantel is going to a new school this year and will be in the 8th grade. She has learned that there are 11 7th graders and 13 8th graders (including herself) in her homeroom. If the desks in her...
- Probability, Counting and Combinatorics
The holidays are here, and it’s not uncommon for offices and classrooms to do a gift exchange. These often work as follows: the names of all participants are put into a hat, and everyone draws a name...