Wake Tech Community College Math Competition

Thank you for your interest in the first annual Wake Technical Community College Math Competition! 

General Information: The competition will take place at Wake Technical Community College's Southern Wake Campus (9101 Fayetteville Rd., Raleigh, NC, 27603) in Building L. The event will be held on Saturday, February 22, 2025. Please contact the Math Club advisor, Elisabeth Congdon ([email protected]), with any questions.

Event Format: The competition will consist of two parts: an individual competition in the morning and a team competition in the afternoon. For the individual competition, students will have the choice between two multiple choice exams,

• A Calculus-based exam, which will include material from Calculus I and II. Calculus III material may be included. Questions will focus on limits, sequences, series, derivatives, and integrals.

• A Mathematics Applications exam. This exam will not require any knowledge of Calculus. The possible applications include financial mathematics, game theory, graph theory, logic, probability, combinatorics, and computer science.

Each individual exam will have a time-limit of 90 minutes and calculators are not allowed. In the team competition, each participating college will form teams of up to 4 participants. College sponsors who register their students as a team will indicate their own teams. Students registered as individuals will be placed on a team by the competition organizers. One scientific calculator per team will be provided by the competition organizers. Questions in the team competition will each have a time-limit of 10 minutes and will be at the pre-calculus level. 

Rules and Eligibility: Students who wish to participate in the competition must be currently enrolled in either a 2-year or 4-year college or university and must not hold a bachelor's degree. High school students who are enrolled in college classes are eligible to participate. College sponsors who register their students will indicate which exam each student wishes to take. Students who register individually will choose their exam when registering.

Tentative Schedule:

9:30-10:15: Registration and light refreshments for registered students and their sponsors

10:30-12:00: Individual competition

12:00-1:15: Lunch provided for registered students and their sponsors

1:30-2:30: Team competition

2:45-3:30: Award ceremony 

Registration Fees and Prizes: Participation in the competition requires a registration fee of $20 per student. Registration will open in November of 2024 and remain open until February 8, 2025. The registration form will become available on this page at that time. Last-minute changes to registration are possible, but discouraged. Cash prizes will be awarded to the top 2 students for each of the individual tests, as well as to each student in the top 3 group competition teams. The colleges with the top 3 individual plus group aggregate scores will receive trophies.