{"id":113,"date":"2013-03-27T21:04:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T21:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bear-mathbelt.marjoriesayer.com\/?page_id=113"},"modified":"2024-01-16T06:20:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T06:20:20","slug":"amc-8","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bear-mathbelt.marjoriesayer.com\/?page_id=113","title":{"rendered":"AMC 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/amc.maa.org\/e-exams\/e4-amc08\/amc8.shtml\" title=\"AMC 8 Info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amc.maa.org<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>The AMC 8 is a mathematical examination designed for middle school students (ages 11, 12, and 13) by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). <\/p>\n<p>What it is: 25 multiple choice questions, which must be answered in 40 minutes. <\/p>\n<p>How often is the contest held: Once a year. The last contest was held on Tuesday, November 13, 2012. <\/p>\n<p>Level of difficulty: the material covered in the examination goes up to eighth grade mathematics. It is a challenging exam for elementary school students. <\/p>\n<p>Middle school students (11-13): Professor Bear recommends doing the AMC 8 for fun and for benchmarking your math progress through middle school. You could for example set yourself the goal of improving your score by a point or two each year. It\u2019s interesting to look at the statistics on AMC 8 scores in the United States. You will see that the <a href=\"http:\/\/amc.maa.org\/amc8\/2010\/stats\/2010-amc8stats.shtml\" title=\"AMC 8 - 6th Grade Averages 2010\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">average score for 6th graders in 2010 was 8.6<\/a>. The average score for eighth graders in 2010 was 10.6 (out of 25). If you can improve by more than one point per year, you would beat the national average. <\/p>\n<p>Elementary school students (10 and under): Professor Bear recommends doing the AMC 8 if you are interested in a challenge, and if you have already had experience with math contests and competitions. If you attempt the AMC 8, keep in mind that a very good score might be 8 points out of 25. You might not be accustomed to that kind of score.<\/p>\n<p>Note to coaches: if you invite students to take the AMC 8, they need some preparation. Professor Bear\u2019s workbooks are a good first step for preparing, as are the Math Olympiad materials. The AMC 8 web site also has a <a href=\"http:\/\/amc.maa.org\/d-publication\/publication.shtml#AMC8\" title=\"AMC 8 - Math Club Package\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">math club package<\/a> that you can purchase. Administering the AMC 8 is easy: you arrange a time and place for the exam, and make sure that your participants are prepared to bubble in their multiple choice answers. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amc.maa.org\/registration\/registration.shtml\" title=\"AMC 8 - Registration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Registration information is here.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>amc.maa.org The AMC 8 is a mathematical examination designed for middle school students (ages 11, 12, and 13) by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). What it is: 25 multiple choice questions, which must be answered in 40 minutes. How often is the contest held: Once a year. The last contest was held on Tuesday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":88,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-113","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bear-mathbelt.marjoriesayer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bear-mathbelt.marjoriesayer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bear-mathbelt.marjoriesayer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bear-mathbelt.marjoriesayer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bear-mathbelt.marjoriesayer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bear-mathbelt.marjoriesayer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/bear-mathbelt.marjoriesayer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113\/revisions\/264"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bear-mathbelt.marjoriesayer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bear-mathbelt.marjoriesayer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}