{"id":154,"date":"2014-10-29T16:59:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T20:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/?p=154"},"modified":"2014-10-29T16:59:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T20:59:18","slug":"amc-8-pumac-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/2014\/10\/29\/amc-8-pumac-update\/","title":{"rendered":"AMC 8 &amp; PUMaC Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-62\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/files\/2014\/10\/AMC-lgo-300x58.png\" alt=\"AMC-lgo\" width=\"300\" height=\"58\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/files\/2014\/10\/AMC-lgo-300x58.png 300w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/files\/2014\/10\/AMC-lgo-250x48.png 250w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/files\/2014\/10\/AMC-lgo.png 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>AMC 8:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The AMC 8 will take place on Tuesday, 11\/18 from 2:30 to 3:30 in WB. The competition is open to all 7th and 8th graders. The competition itself is 40 minutes long and is comprised of 25 multiple choice questions. (We need 60 minutes to get paperwork done.)<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in participating in the AMC 8, please speak to Ms. Fulcher or email me (<a href=\"mailto:jseamon@williston.com\">Mr. Seamon<\/a>) ASAP. You need to sign up by Monday, 11\/3 if at all possible.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about the competition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maa.org\/math-competitions\/amc-contests\/amc-8\">right here<\/a>. Here are the problems from a few past years:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/files\/2014\/10\/2012AMC8.pdf\">2012 Problems<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/files\/2014\/10\/2012AMC8-solutions.pdf\">2012 Solutions<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/files\/2014\/10\/2011AMC8.pdf\">2011 Problems<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/files\/2014\/10\/2011AMC8-solutions.pdf\">2011 Solutions<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/files\/2014\/10\/2010AMC8.pdf\">2010 Problems<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/files\/2014\/10\/2010AMC8-solutions.pdf\">2010 Solutions<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/files\/2014\/10\/PUMaC-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-70\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/files\/2014\/10\/PUMaC-Logo-300x59.png\" alt=\"PUMaC-Logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"59\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/files\/2014\/10\/PUMaC-Logo-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/files\/2014\/10\/PUMaC-Logo-250x49.png 250w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/files\/2014\/10\/PUMaC-Logo.png 557w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>PUMaC:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, too many logistical hurdles have come up recently for us to attend in person.\u00a0So, we won&#8217;t be making the trip to Princeton. That being said, we will be participating as an &#8220;off-site team&#8221; in the <a href=\"https:\/\/pumac.princeton.edu\/info\/competition-rules\/power-competition\/\">Power Competition<\/a>. We will be discussing the details regarding this event at our next Math Team meeting which will be held on <strong>Monday, 11\/3 from 2:50 to 3:30pm in SH25<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMC 8: The AMC 8 will take place on Tuesday, 11\/18 from 2:30 to 3:30 in WB. The competition is open to all 7th and 8th graders. The competition itself is 40 minutes long and is comprised of 25 multiple choice questions. (We need 60 minutes to get paperwork done.) If you&#8217;re interested in participating &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/2014\/10\/29\/amc-8-pumac-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AMC 8 &amp; PUMaC Update<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[32,10],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competitions","tag-amc-8","tag-pumac"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54xem-2u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/mathteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}