Who Wants to Be a Mathematician
National Contest

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In the AMS game Who Wants to Be a Mathematician, high school students compete for cash and prizes by answering multiple choice mathematics questions. This January we'll be conducting the first national contest of Who Wants to Be a Mathematician. The contest will take place on Thursday, January 14 at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Francisco with 10 students from around the country. The top prize is $5000 for the winning student and $5000 for the math department of that student's school.

Contestants will be selected based on scores on the national qualifying test--which like previous Who Wants to Be a Mathematician events has questions from algebra, geometry, trigonometry, probability, combinatorics, history of math, etc., but not calculus. Teachers who would like to get the qualifying test to give to their students should send an email with the subject line "National WWTBAM" to paoffice at ams dot org. In the body of the message, include your name, school, phone number, and courses taught this school year. (We'll send you a pdf, unless you specify that you'd prefer a Word doc.) The deadline for returning qualifying tests is October 20.