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GPML power question rules
[This is the text of the letter included with power questions distributed
to GPML members this year]
In the enclosed envelope you will find a copy of this year's Great
Plains Math League Power Question for the local level. Due to time constraints, the power question
is not offered on-site at local tournaments, but the state test will be administered as part of
the state meet on 17 April. The enclosed test is provided as an opportunity
for your school to qualify one or more teams to compete at
the state meet. If you would like to participate in this year's GPML Power
Contest, please follow the directions below. Even if you choose not to
participate, under no circumstances is anyone from outside your school
to see this test.
- Decide on an appropriate time to offer the power contest at your school.
Leave the envelope sealed 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 (postmarked by March 21, 2004) to Great Plains Math League at the address listed here.
One power question entry is included with your GPML membership fee. If more than one team from your school is entering, be sure to include a processing fee of $5 for
each additional team. Checks should be made payable to Great Plains Math League. You
will be notified of each team's score, and if any team achieves the cutoff
score of 50, you will be sent an invitation in April for this year's state
meet. Additionally, the scores of all exams submitted will be posted on
the GPML website (http://mathleague.org), along with the name of the school. All schools are welcome to participate
and have their exams scored and listed on the website, but only qualifiers from states in which GPML holds state meets will be invited to their respective state meets. If you have any
questions, feel free to contact us through the website listed above, or
call 1-800-720-0717
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