Batavia Invitational Math Contest

General Information

• If you have any questions, please contact Chris Ozarka at christopher.ozarka@bps101.net.

• Tentatively, Wednesday, November 29th, 2023

• Batavia High School

• Times

  • • 5:00-9:00pm

• Level: 9th-12th

• Entry Fee: $200

• Format

  • • Individual Contests: 20 minutes

      • • 4 questions each progressively more difficult and thus worth more points (1, 2, 3, & 4 points respectively)

        • 3 topic areas at each level

    • 3 Team Level Contests: 20 minutes

      • • Fr/So 8-person (no calculator)

        • Jr/Sr 8-person (no calculator)

        • Calculator Team

Individual Topics

• Freshman

  • • Factoring (including cubic expressions)

    • Systems of Equations

    • Radical Expressions & Equations

• Sophomore

  • • Coordinate Geometry

    • Area

    • Circles (chords, secants, arcs & angles)

• Junior

  • • Conics (components, systems of quadratics)

    • Polynomials (roots/zeroes, imaginary solutions, end behavior)

    • Logarithms/Exponential Equations

• Senior

  • • Trig Mixed Bag (law of sines/cosines, identities, formulas, solving)

    • Limits (no calculator) (including L’Hospital's Rule)

    • Derivatives (no calculator) (rules, implicit differentiation, related rates)

Previous Competition Problems

Proctoring Information

• Each school will need to have one of their coaches designated as a proctor/grader for the day.

• Each test will be proctored by two teachers from separate schools.

• Proctors will be responsible for picking up the test materials (if they are the head proctor) and bringing them back to the Contest Headquarters.

• Graders will need to grade and score the tests.

• Prepared Statements

  • • Individual

    • 8-Person Team

    • Calculator Team

Location Information

• Some rooms are for testing and others are for team homerooms.

• The testing schedule and homerooms will be or were emailed to coaches.

• Awards are held in cafeteria.

Rules

• Student Instructions

  • • Individual

    • 8-Person Team

    • Calculator Team

• We follow the SAT/ACT rules for allowable calculators on individual competitions. Any self-powered calculator is allowed on the Calculator Team.

• A "freshmen" is defined as someone in their first year of high school.

• A "sophomore" is defined as someone in their first or second year of high school.

• A "junior" is defined as someone in their first, second, or third year of high school.

• A "senior" is defined as someone in their first, second, third, or fourth year of high school.

• In other words, students can always compete "up" a level, but never "down" a level

• In the event of an error or "gray area", the decision of the host is final.

Schedule

• Schedule Template

  • • Coaches can use this to build their roster and share with students.