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Power Question contest rules
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Power Questions that are distributed as part of this contest are the property of mathleague.org and member schools may not distribute the Power Questions in whole or in part outside their school communities. In addition, students and coaches participating in the Power Question contest are not to discuss the test questions or answers with anyone who hasn't taken the test until after March 15 of this school year.
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The first round of the Power Question contest is expected to be ready by January 15. Schools that are members of mathleague.org will be emailed copies of the first round of the Power Question contest. Entries must be postmarked by March 15, and must be mailed to mathleague.org at the address listed on the contact page.
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Schools scoring at least 50 points on the first round will be emailed copies of the second round on April 11, 2024. Entries must be postmarked by the following Friday, and must be mailed to mathleague.org at the address listed on the contact page.
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Any team competing in the second round of the Power Question contest must be a subset of the team that qualified to compete in the second round.
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Any school with an average enrollment per grade level of 250 students or more, as well as any school with a selective admissions process, must compete as a large school. Any school with fewer than 250 enrolled students per grade and which does not employ selective admissions criteria can be considered a small school. For purposes of this section selective admissions describes any school which, at any point over the last four years, has declined to enroll any student for any set of reasons that directly or indirectly relates to the student's academic performance or potential, or which has currently in place a set of admissions policies or standards that would allow this to happen.
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Any calculator approved for use on the SAT is acceptable for use on the Power Question. Students may use multiple calculators and are not required to clear calculator memories before testing. [Note: mathleague.org is not affiliated in any way with the SAT, the College Board, or collegeboard.com.]
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Any student's name, grade, school, and scores could potentially be reproduced on the mathleague.org website and/or through other media. Any schools or individuals who wish to avoid such publicity must contact mathleague.org prior to the start of the contest for which they wish to opt out of such publicity.
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One power question entry is included with a school's membership fee. If more than one team from your school is entering, be sure to include a processing fee of $10 for each additional team. Checks should be made payable to Great Plains Math League, or if you prefer you may pay online by clicking the mathleague.org store link at the top of this page.
Rules specific to schools competing in other mathleague.org contests:
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The second round of the Power Question contest will consist of the same test administered at mathleague.org's on-site championship rounds. As such, if a school has students participating in a mathleague.org championship round AND has students qualified to participate in the second round of the Power Question contest, all of the school's second round Power Question contest entries must have been taken at the championship round, and the entries that the school submits must be exactly the same entries that were submitted in competition at the championship round.
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Because participation in the second round of the Power Question contest could be concurrent with participation in a mathleague.org championship round, it is advisable that schools for which this might be a possibility avoid placing junior high (8th grade or younger) students on a team with high school students.
Directions for administering the Power Question:
- Decide on an appropriate time to offer the power contest at your school. Do not open or access the document until the day you are to administer the power question. Every team from your school that wishes to participate must take the test at the same time.
- On the day of contest administration, you may make enough copies of the power question for each student to have at least one copy.
- Arrange students into teams of no more than six (or three if your school is a small school), and distribute the test face down to the students. Each team is free to use calculators and scratch paper, but no other resources. There may be no interaction during the test between one team and another, although within each team the members are encouraged to work together.
- At your signal to begin, students may turn their tests over, and they are to be given exactly 60 minutes to complete the test. You may give verbal time warnings when 30 minutes remain and when 5 minutes remain. The power question is a multi-part question that involves explanations and proofs, and students are to write their answers on otherwise blank paper and hand their complete solution packet to you at the end of the hour.
- After the test has been administered and you have collected the solutions (make sure solutions from different teams within your school are appropriately labelled, and that the names of the students on each team are included), mail the solutions along with payment for any additional teams (postmarked by March 15 of this school year) to mathleague.org at the address listed on the contact page. Please note: All Power Question entries become property of mathleague.org and will not be returned, so you are encouraged to photocopy your entries before submitting them.
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