- Participating students must be students enrolled in 2 or 4 year colleges or universities in New Jersey or outside of New Jersey, who have not yet received a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics. High school students satisfying the above description qualify (i.e. high school students enrolled in 2 or 4 year colleges or universities who have not yet received a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics qualify) .

- Students must register in advance for the conference (see GSUMC website, Conference Registration Page) and their faculty advisors must register them as a team for the competition part (see GSUMC website, Mathematics Competition Registration Page).

- Teams are allowed a maximum of three students. Teams with 1-2 students are allowed but are at a disadvantage (for disadvantages see the Instruction Sheet links below, as they contain the past scoring rules).

-Substitutions of contestant names for a registered team will not be allowed after the registration deadline.

-Due to space considerations, we are limiting the competition to the first 25 teams that register.  We are initially limiting schools to at most two teams, on a first-come, first-serve basis. Schools wishing to enter more than two teams should contact Professor Kowal.

- Each team must have a faculty advisor. Teams from the same school may have the same faculty advisor. Faculty advisors are encouraged to register for the parallel MAA-NJ Spring conference held that day.

- Faculty advisors are expected to volunteer from each school in the competition to help in proctoring and/or grading.  Grading takes approximately two hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon, including lunch time, until 2pm. Proctoring takes place from 9am until noon. A complimentary lunch will be provided to anyone who is a proctor or a grader. In addition to a complimentary lunch, the MAA-NJ meeting registration fee will be waived for anyone who is both a proctor and a grader. Please contact Katarzyna Kowal if you are a faculty advisor who would like to help in proctoring and/or grading.

 - A faculty advisor of any team must be a mathematics faculty member from a 2 or 4 year college or university.  In order to be a grader for the competition, a faculty advisor is either expected to have a doctoral degree in mathematics or needs to receive a permission from Professor Kowal. Any mathematics faculty member from a  2 or 4 year college or university can be a proctor.

- Cell phones and other electronic devices must be turned off and put away during the competition. Calculators are not allowed. Watches may be helpful. Bring a pen or a pencil. Please refer to last year's Instruction Sheet (attached below) for other rules, as a similar Instruction Sheet may be used this year. 

-The competition consists of two parts: an individual part and a team part. Awards will be presented to winning teams from both four-year and two-year institutions and to the highest scoring students in the individual session. A diploma with a score and rank will be presented to each contestant at the afternoon awards ceremony. Also, each faculty advisor will receive an e-mail with the competition results. If you are a student interested in participating but you don’t have a faculty advisor, do not hesitate to ask your school’s mathematics department for one. There is an entry fee of $25 per team to be paid at the registration desk on the day of the conference (your mathematics department should be more than happy to pay this fee, so ask the chairperson!).  Questions about the competition can be sent to the competition co-directors, Katarzyna Kowal or Ken McMurdy.

Co-Directors

Organizing Committee

Last updated: April 12, 2012.