I liked the structure of lessons, chapter reviews, exams, and projects. The projects were fun as well as the Kahoots. Overall, it was a great course.
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Only schools can participate in MATHCOUNTS (*). You can find the registered schools for the upcoming competition here. You can check with your school to find out if they are planning to participate.
(*) In the 2021-22 competition series, students could also participate as Non-School Competitors (NSC).
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AlphaStar Academy has several fundamental course offerings for MATHCOUNTS preparation. These courses help students master problem-solving techniques and skills for MATHCOUNTS and AMC 8 competitions in Algebra, Counting, Geometry, and Number Theory. They cover the whole contest curriculum.
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All of the courses have live and self-study formats. Live course students participate in interactive online live sessions. Both formats give access to the video recordings from the live sessions.
Many of the questions and answers below are from the official MathCounts website.
There are Chapter, State, and National competitions in a year. The top-scoring students and teams from each Chapter qualify for the State competition. The top four students from each state represent their state in the National competition.
Each competition has the following rounds:
Only U.S. full-time students in grades 6-8 are eligible to participate in MATHCOUNTS competitions.
Any type of school, of any size, can register—public, private, religious, charter, virtual or home schools. School-based competitors must participate through their official school of record.
The schedule for the 2021-22 Competition series is as follows:
Chapter: February 17, 2022
State: March 2022
National: May 7-10, 2022
School-based competitors: Only school representatives can register their school through the MATHCOUNTS website or office. A school representative can be a teacher, administrator, or parent volunteer.
Non-School Competitors (NSC): For the 2021-22 competition series, MATHCOUNTS allows some non-school competitors to participate. For details on eligibility and registration of NSC’s, please check here.
You can prepare by solving problems from past competitions or similar problems. Taking timed practice tests, going over the solutions, and analyzing your mistakes is also a great way to improve your exam performance. When analyzing your mistakes, you should create strategies to avoid them in the future. You can read this article to learn about how making mistakes while practicing can actually help you avoid them in official contests.
You can find a variety of MATHCOUNTS preparation books here.
AlphaStar offers courses for MATHCOUNTS preparation. Click here to see all of our offerings.
I liked the structure of lessons, chapter reviews, exams, and projects. The projects were fun as well as the Kahoots. Overall, it was a great course.
It was fun to learn and it make me like coding more.
The instructor did a great job! AlphaStar seems like one of the best places to learn coding/USACO.
If I have the chance, I would like to take another course in a more advanced level in perhaps a different topic later with this teacher. He was clear and instructive and I really liked him.
I enjoyed the live courses. The LMS was cool.
The course provided a lot of relevant practice and helped me pass Bronze on my first try, after only 7 months of learning java!
The best computer course I have taken. One of the best teachers I have had.
I highly recommend this course if you are a beginner in coding and computer science. I am excited to take their USACO preparatory classes as well. The course is informative and in depth, which I very much enjoyed.
He detailed everything we needed to know and answered all our questions.
I do think that the homework problems were sufficient to understand the content clearly, like for the set of analytic geometry 1 and 2
Dr. Jennifer is an excellent teacher. She is one of my favorite teachers and I hope I can continue learning with her. She teaches the material very well and always is ready to answer one of my questions. I wish I have Dr. Jennifer next year too!
The course helped me understand how to approach different types of problems in java through the various lessons, problems, and projects. The course framework is designed well, and the instructor ensured that everyone understood the concepts before moving on.
Zachary is a great teacher. He explains things well and his work is organized really well! Also, one of his go-to phrases is, \Sweet!\ I think it's a fantastic word so I've adopted it too.
I liked how this class showed us how to approach problems, and not just algorithms. We had time to consider how to solve problems and discuss it before going to the actual solution.
I think that the course overall was great and I enjoyed the classes
The instructor was kind, and clearly explained the concept so we could understand it better. She was encouraging and enthusiastic as she taught the concept.
This course in my experience has been extremely good. From the organization to the quality of teaching, it has saved a great deal of time and has allowed me to learn so much. My instructor Kyle Fu has been very supportive, and I recommend him to anyone interested in this course.
I liked that I got to learn a lot about Computer Science, and I liked how the teachers and other peers made a positive learning environment. I also liked how the exercises and homework got me pulled into coding.
The study material was sufficient and is easy to understand. I also enjoy how the study material is formatted, so it is easy to know what you are doing, and how you are doing.
The Online classes were great and there were no real problems with the quality of the videos or screen share. The live classes really helped me interact with the teacher and also get to know him better with the activity days.
The instructor really tries to encourage everyone to participate and takes all ideas/comments and either takes or improves on them. I really appreciate how much he shows that he cares about his students and how they learn, as well as taking everything they say seriously.
The most enjoyable parts about the course was being able to see the end results of codes that I worked on for a long time. In this course, we learned so many different subjects in such a short time which leaves us with a lot of things to explore and be innovative about.
The course was fun and the instructor was very helpful. I especially enjoyed the break days because they were relaxing and allowed me to catch up on homework assignments.
Isaac Browne is an excellent teacher who explains content very thoroughly and makes learning fun by engaging the students.
