10 Suggestions For Sponsors From Sponsors
- Participate in Mu Alpha Theta Contests: the Rocket City Math League, Log1 Contest, and Mathematical Minutes Video Contest.
- Hold weekly meetings via Zoom or Microsoft Teams.
- Issue challenges to your members, like: "Record yourself sneaking math puns into conversations throughout the day", “Try to work a math vocab word into every conversation”, or "Make a video where you explain a simple math topic as if it's very complicated".
- Invite guest speakers to talk to your chapter (over Zoom) about how math plays a role in their lives and occupations.
- Plan a virtual math activity for the elementary and middle schools in your county.
- Check out MAA's AMC Kahoot!, which takes place every Wednesday at 3:30 pm ET. Members can make their own Kahoot!s to help instruct younger members on typical math contest problems.
- Try putting together a virtual math tournament for your school or another school.
- Participate in virtual contests.
- Members could make a list of topics they'd be interested in learning about, and then they could make short videos on those subjects for their chaptermates to watch. Lists might include famous mathematicians, current unsolved problems, important formulae, etc.
Ideas From Our Partner Organizations
SIAM
Learn math modeling via Teacher Training Videos – 100% suitable for high school students as well!2020 M3 Challenge problem and video presentations playlist.
Free viewable/downloadable handbooks, videos, sample problems, and more fun stuff to do and explore on the Resources page of the M3 Challenge website. Other modeling practice problems with archived text chats with problem authors appended are also great to review.
Our intro “About M3 Challenge” runs for 1 minute and gives a good overview of what M3 is and how to do it.
An animated video about the resources available to help teams be successful (this one refers to lots of other FREE digitally available educational materials).
More Resources
- Black Girl MATHgic
Black Girl MATHgic is the first and only monthly screen-free subscription box designed to increase math confidence and decrease math anxiety in girls on a 3rd-8th grade math level. Each box comes chock-full of screen-free math activities, a profile of a woman mathematician, custom stickers, a math affirmation, and more. The BGM Box is co-curricular and perfect for supplementing lessons, as well! These boxes could help your chapter plan competitions, lessons, and tutoring for local elementary and middle schoolers. Each box contains up to 40 hours worth of activities. - National Museum of Mathematics
- MathWorks
Cleve’s blog - Arete Labs
League Play: we can create leagues of online competition between math classes/teams of any frequency (weekly, monthly, or otherwise). Leagues can be followed by a bracket tournament or championship. The functionality is fully customizable to each locality's specific requirements. Omega Learn
A great resource for high schoolers that provides a variety of free classes, a comprehensive list of resources, and fun math competitions.The Book of Mathematical Formulas & Strategies - Omega Learn
- Math Reimagined
(Currently ONLY for girls who live in Missouri) The nonprofit Math Reimagined is hosting weekly “Intro to Contest Math” sessions every Sunday from 3-5pm CT. These sessions are taught by girls for girls and include instruction from MATHCOUNTS national and state countdown qualifiers. Please contact contact@mathreim.org to sign up. This group is open to expanding across the country, so please email them if you don’t live in Missouri but are interested in expanding this program into your area.