American Mathematics Contest

tetrahedr0n
Tue, 03 Jan 2006 20:36:32 +0000

You don’t have to spare a day. You need 75 minutes. It doesn’t have to be during school either; you can do it after school (as my school often does.) Depending on the number of contestants, you need a classroom or two and a proctor for each. These aren’t really significant demands. Sweeten the deal - tell them that you’ll pay for it (it’s inexpensive, you and students taking it could easily split cost.) I went to a middle school that had never heard of these contests before, and my parents paid about $50 to have my entire math class take the AMC-8.

That said, if you absolutely can’t do it, you can


Take it at another school by registering as a visitor with the AMC (course, that school has to let you, but most have no problem with that. There’s also some math circles/clubs that let you do it.) This costs you about $30 though.
Try to create a group of people and take it as a homeschool group or something to that extent. Never investigated this problem myself.


Take a look around www.artofproblemsolving.com (it’s forums especially.) Your question has been asked often.