Achievements 21 - 22

The 2021-2022 school year, Lanier Math Team got great achievements for outstanding performance on the AMC 8 and University of Houston Math Contests. We look forward to another achievement for the school year 2022-2023. 

Gold Medals

Silver Medals

Bronze Medals

Certificate of Achievements

Achievements 22-23

1. UIL Number Sense

1st Place­: Liam Powers – 6th Grade and Justin Ye – 8th Grade

2nd Place: Aarav Saini – 6th Grade,  Manas Aggarwal – 7th Grade

3rd Place: Sriprajnav Koduri – 8th Grade

4th Place: Andrew Chen - 8th Grade

6th Place: Sohum Bhardwaj - 6th Grade

2. AMC8

1st Place: Eric Wang – 7th Grade

2nd Place: Manas Aggarwal – 7th Grade

3rd Place: Kazumasa Yamakawa – 8th Grade

3. University of Houston Mathematics Competitions

Manas Aggarwal and Kazumasa Yamakawa both won the silver trophies in Algebra 1 competitions. 

Objectives

• It helps in arousing and maintaining students’ interest in mathematics.

• It provides the students with opportunities to develop their explorative, creative and inventive faculties.

• It inculcates the habit of self-study and independent work among the students.

• It offers an ideal avenue for a free exchange of mathematical ideas and for frank and helpful criticism of these ideas.

• It helps in developing heuristic and problem solving attitude among the students.

Benefits & Responsibilities

1. You will have a chance to experience the beauty of mathematical ideas, explore challenging math problems, and discuss types of systematic approaches to problem solving with your teacher and peers at the advanced level.

2. You will be motivated to attend the following mathematics competitions as an individual or school-wide team and we would love for you to be part of them. 

   • UIL Academics: These academic tournaments are against other HISD middle schools. The UIL Academics include 3 categories. 

This 22 - 23 school year, 6th grade team (3 students), 7th grade team (3 students), and 8th grade team (3 students) have been chosen to represent Lanier for UIL.

a) Calculator Applications: Students will take a test containing 80 problems in 30 minutes. The contest consists of problems which may include calculations involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, roots, and powers. Calculators are permitted. 

b) Mathematics: The contest consists of 50 multiple-choice problems covering, but not limited to: numeration systems, arithmetic operations involving whole numbers, integers, fractions, decimals, exponents, order of operations, probability, statistics, number theory, simple interest, measurements, and conversions. Geometry and algebra problems may be included as appropriate for the grade level. Calculators are not permitted. 

c) Number Sense: Students will be given a 10-minute, fill-in-the-blank test which they shall complete without doing calculations on paper or on a calculator. Erasures, mark-overs, and mark-outs are not permitted. Concepts covered include, but are not limited to: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, proportions, and use of mathematic notation.

2. • American Mathematics Competitions (AMC) (https://amc-reg.maa.org/) - Sometimes we will host the AMC as we did in the previous years. These competitions are open to all the students in our school if they pass the qualifying test for AMC. The test will be hosted at Lanier under teachers' supervision as proctors and no parents should be involved in the testing process.  The dates for AMC8, AMC10, and AMC12 competitions are normally around November, January, and February respectively. The schedule is subject to change.

a) Registration Deadlines and Competition Date for AMC 8: https://www.maa.org/math-competitions/amc-8

• Early Bird Registration Deadline: Sept 6th - Oct 16th, 2022

• Regular Registration Deadline: Oct 17th - Dec 18th, 2022

• Late Registration Deadline: Dec 19th - Jan 11th, 2023

AMC 8 Competition Date:  Jan 17th, 2023

b) Registration Deadlines and Competition Date for AMC 10/12: https://www.maa.org/math-competitions/amc-1012

• AMC 10/12 A Early Bird Registration Deadline: Sept 6th - Sept 18th, 2022

• AMC 10/12 A Regular Registration Deadline: Sept 19th - Oct 26th, 2022

• AMC 10/12 A Late Registration Deadline: Oct 27th - Nov 3rd, 2022

AMC 10/12 A Competition Date: Nov 10th, 2022

• AMC 10/12 B Early Bird Registration Deadline: Sept 6th - Sept 25th, 2022

• AMC 10/12 B Regular Registration Deadline: Sept 26th - Nov 2nd, 2022

• AMC 10/12 B Late Registration Deadline: Nov 3rd - Nov 9th, 2022

AMC 10/12 B Competition Date: Nov 16th, 2022

2. • MATHCOUNTS (https://www.mathcounts.org/) - Normally we registered our school for the exam to take advantage of the early bird discount. The top 10 students will be selected to represent LMS to participate in the competition. Among these 10 students, 4 students will form a team and their scores will be counted as LMS team score. Last year, our LMS team advanced to State Competition held at Austin. 

Early Bird Rates: Nov 1st, 2022

https://www.mathcounts.org/programs/mathcounts-competition-series

a) $30 per competitor for schools

• Every registered school receives the School Competition Kit to run its program for the year.

• As many students as are interested can participate in practices and the School Competition. Registration fees are based on the number of competitors representing the school at the Chapter Competition.

• Schools with 40% of students on free or reduced lunch or receiving School Wide Title I funding receive a discount.

b) $60 per non-school competitor (NSC)

Check back soon for more information about how your student can participate if their school will not register for the Competition Series!

 MATHCOUNT Competition Date: Feb 11th, 2023

2. • University of Houston Math Contests (UH Math Contests) (https://mathcontest.uh.edu/) - The Department of Mathematics at the University of Houston will host its High School Mathematics Contest in January annually. The contest will consist of 9 Individual Exams as well as The SmackDown Event. Certificates and gift cards will be awarded to the top students from each individual exam. In addition, Team Trophies will be awarded and shipped to schools based upon overall student performance on the individual competitions. Individual exams will be given in the following areas: Algebra 1, Geometry; Algebra 2; Pre-Calculus; Calculus; Statistics; Physics; Number Sense; Calculator Usage; SmackDown. Last year, these exams were given ONLINE on the day of the contest, with a time limit of 50 minutes. (Exceptions: Number Sense is a 30 minute exam, and SmackDown lasts until students are eliminated and only one student remains.) 

Students can take at most 3 subject exams, as follows and as permitted by the schedule.

• Students are eligible to take AT MOST ONE of Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, PreCalculus provided that they sign up for an exam at or above the level of the course they are currently taking in school. Any student can take the Calculus exam (for which a student does not need to currently be enrolled.) All of these exams are offered in the same time slot in 2023. 

• Two of the following: Statistics, Physics, Number Sense, and Calculator exams. 

The 2023 UH Contest will take place ONLINE on January 28, 2023! The contest is FREE!

3. You will have opportunities to meet with renowned mathematicians and speakers from various institutions and universities. You will learn how to master fundamental concepts, develop your problem solving and critical thinking skills to foster a good working habit which will ensure your long term success.

4.  There will be club fees for math-club t-shirts.

5. We are in need of copy paper and graph paper for our Math Club use. If you can donate a box of copy paper or graph paper, it would be highly appreciated. This is of course optional, but a great support.

Announcement

University of Houston Math Contest 2023

Lanier Math Club is looking for potential students who can represent Lanier at the University of Houston Math Contest 2023 for High School Math Levels. The 2023 Contest will take place ONLINE on January 28, 2023!

The contest will consist of 9 Individual Exams as well as The SmackDown Event. Certificates and gift cards will be awarded to the top students from each individual exam. In addition, Team Trophies will be awarded and shipped to schools based upon overall student performance on the individual competitions. Individual exams will be given in the following areas:

Algebra 1 Geometry Algebra 2 Pre-Calculus Calculus Statistics

Physics Number Sense Calculator Usage SmackDown

Students who sign up for UH Math Contest must past the Lanier Math Club Qualifying Test to be chosen to represent Lanier in the math competition at UH.

Qualifying Tests

Lanier Math Club is open to any students interested in math. However, high performing students will be picked to form a Lanier Math Team to attend various Mathematics Competitions each year. In order to be admitted to the Lanier Math Team for mathematics competitions, students must take and pass different Qualifying Tests. Below are the tests proctored in previous school years.

Math Olympiad Resources

The following links would help your students master the math contests:

1. Algebra https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra 

2. Geometry: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/geometry

3. Past UH Math Contests: https://mathcontest.uh.edu/

4. Past AMC 8 and AMC 10 Contests: https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/AMC_Problems_and_Solutions.

5. Math Olympiad: https://sites.google.com/view/bao-le/math-olympiad

6. MathCounts: https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/MATHCOUNTS.

7. Past MathCounts Competitions: https://www.mathcounts.org/resources/past-competitions.

8. Johns Hopkins Mathematics Competitions: https://math.jhu.edu/~mathclub/jhmt.html

9. All Texas Mathematics Competitions: https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/Texas_mathematics_competitions

Contact

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Lanier Math Club presidents Manas Aggarwal and Adrian Tkachenko at laniermathclub@gmail.com.