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The Franklin Math Bowl is a competition held on a Saturday in early November for middle school students. The competition consists of an individual 25-question, multiple choice test and a team problem solving test. The Bowl has four contests: sixth grade, seventh grade, regular eighth grade, and eighth grade algebra I. Both individual and school awards are given in each contest, usually split between large and small school divisions. The Franklin Math Bowl is co-sponsored by the ETSU Department of Mathematics and the Upper East Tennessee Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Within each contest, students are divided by their coaches into teams of four. Each school may have one or two teams per contest (6th, 7th, 8th, and algebra). A school may register a total of ten students in each contest, with the last two students considered alternates. The alternates may take the written tests, but their scores will not be considered in determining contest winners, and they do not take part in the team problem solving competition.
For more information, contact Dr. Daryl Stephens, director, at 423-439-6973 or e-mail stephen@etsu.edu.
2008 Contest -- Saturday, November 8
Schools which have participated in the contest in recent years will receive a packet in the mail by mid-September. The opening general assembly will be held in the Brown Hall Auditorium; testing will take place in Rogers-Stout Hall, with additional tests given in Alexander Hall (University School) if more space is needed.
Registration form in .doc format (The form on the last page is fillable from within MS Word. Click on, or tab to, the gray areas to fill in the proper information. The blanks will expand as you type.) Registration is due by Monday, October 13.
Past Tests and Contest Winners
New tests are written every year by different writers, so difficulty and content will vary each year. Below you will find a collection of some old tests. All tests are in PDF format. Go to www.adobe.com to get the free Adobe Reader or http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php to get the free Foxit Reader if for some reason you can't open these files. More old tests will be added as time permits.
2007
- 2007 Contest Winners
- Item analysis of individual tests
- 6th grade individual test
- 7th grade individual test
- 8th grade individual test
- Algebra I individual test
- Answer Key to all individual tests
- Problem Solving Tests and Answers (all grades)
2006
2005
2004
2003
- Problem Solving Tests and Answers (all grades) (Note: these are scanned images; the text can't be copied as text to another program.)
2002
- 6th grade problem solving test
- 7th grade problem solving test
- 8th grade problem solving test
- Answers to problem solving test (all grades)
Page last updated September 29, 2008 by Daryl Stephens. Orginally created November 12, 2007.