Competitions and Contests
The program provides 15 sets of challenges throughout the school year; each set is published every other week starting in late September and ending in May. These math challenges covers problem solving strategies such as draw a picture or model, make an organized list, look for a pattern, working backward, and guess and check. Each challenge presents 10 to 18 problems ordered by level of difficulties which enables students from various grades to participate.
The purpose of this program is to entice, engage and challenge students to solve interesting math problems while along the way, strengthen their math fundamentals, critical thinking, problem solving skills and improve confidence in math. Students can also involve their families to help and engage in a fun discussion to solve math problems.
The competition is sponsored by the Office of Library Media Services and directly supports the current Common Core, MSDE, and AASL standards
The students write to inform, to persuade, and to express personal ideas.
The collaboration between Library Media Specialists and classroom teachers at the school level will provide a climate that is conducive to student learning and achievement.
The parent involvement completes the partnership between home and school and contributes to the overall success of the students’ creative literary experience.
For each of the categories listed, a school may submit to the Office of Library Media Services four qualified individual, four qualified group, and four qualified class-produced books for each grade level.
The judges will award prizes at the county level for each entry group and each book type at the appropriate grade levels for 1st place, 2nd place, 3rd place, and honorable mention.