It IS a Competition
In this contest, students are given 3 sets of 2 problems and have 12 minutes to solve each set.
What is the BCML?
This is the total number of a’s in Ananya’s first and last name.
What is 5?
This probability-related card game was played in two of our meetings this year.
What is poker?
This number is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.
What is pi?
This shape, favored by bees for its structural integrity, is found in honeycomb.
What is a hexagon?
This is the school at which Dwight-Englewood students take BCML #6.
What is Tenafly High School?
This is the girl scout cookie on which Alex and Ananya have the most differing opinions.
What are thin mints?
This is the room number for the location in which our meetings are held.
What is H104?
This number is the base of the natural logarithm.
What is e?
The numbers in this popular sequence can be found in sunflowers, pinecones, and even cauliflower heads.
What is the Fibonacci sequence?
Since the 2022-23 school year, five Dwight-Englewood students have taken this contest.
What is the AIME?
Alex has played this many sports for Dwight-Englewood.
What is 4?
This is the name of the fractal that we constructed in our second math team meeting this year.
What is Sierpinski’s tetrahedron?
According to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, this number is the answer to “life, the universe, and everything”
What is 42?
This popular tabletop game features an icosahedral die.
What is Dungeons and Dragons?
This is the most recent (calendar) year in which a Dwight-Englewood student took the USAJMO.
What is 2024?
This is the year in which Alex and Ananya first took a math class together.
What is sophomore year? / What is the 2023-24 school year?
The pipe cleaners we used in our meeting about minimal surfaces were this color.
What is purple?
This is the number of faces on a truncated icosahedron (also known as a “soccer ball”).
What is 32?
When you increase pitch by one octave, the frequency of a note increases by this factor.
What is 2?
This was the day of the week on which the AMC 10B and AMC 12B were administered this year.
What is Thursday?
After getting this score on the second NJML in their freshman year, Ananya did not attend another Math Team meeting until sophomore year.
What is a 1?
These are the names of the two tessellating shapes we decorated in our cookie decorating meeting.
What are kites and darts?
This number is the 314th digit of pi.
What is 3?
This is the only Shakespearean play that includes the word “mathematics”.
What is “The Taming of the Shrew”?