- Coordinate Geometry
- Measurement
- Proportional Reasoning
- Percents and Fractions
- Plane Geometry
- Probability, Counting and Combinatorics
It’s Autumn, and that means leaves are falling! Amber’s house occupies 2650 ft2 in the middle of a 50-foot by 80-foot parcel of land, and the leaves that fall cover the ground all around her house. If...
- Percents and Fractions
- Probability, Counting and Combinatorics
- Proportional Reasoning
The Sprint Round of the MATHCOUNTS Chapter Competition has 30 questions and students are given 40 minutes to complete the round. Though it isn’t expected that most students will finish all 30...
- Probability, Counting and Combinatorics
- Proportional Reasoning
- Sequences, Series and Patterns
According to “A History of Valentine’s Day Cards in America” by T.M. Wilson, in 1847 Esther Howland was the first to mass-produce Valentine’s Day cards. She made them out of lace, paint and expensive...
- Percents and Fractions
- Probability, Counting and Combinatorics
- Solid Geometry
The following information and problems were submitted by a MATHCOUNTS volunteer, Emily Koithan. Thank you, Emily! Neuroscientists use a special type of brain scanning called functional magnetic...