Purple Comet! Math Meet - Free, On-line, International, Team Mathematics Competition

The Purple Comet! Math Meet is a free, on-line, international, team mathematics competition. This competition is designed for middle and high school students. The Purple Comet! Math Meet has been conducted annually since 2003.

The contest will be started on Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 00:00 AM UTC, and extending for 244 hours until Friday, April 24, 2015 at 04:00 AM UTC. The winners of the contest will be announced on Monday April 27, 2015 around 06:00 PM UTC. After the end of the ten-day contest window, solutions to the contest problems and names of winning teams will be posted on the contest website.

1. It is a team competition.
2. Each team is required to have an adult supervisor.
3. Supervisors must be registered on the contest website.
4. Team registration period begins on February 1, 2015 and continues until the end of the competition.
5. In the competition, middle school teams are given 60 minutes to work on 20 mathematics problems, and high school teams are given 90 minutes to work on 30 mathematics problems.
6. The team supervisor may select any period during competition hours for the team to compete.
7. A team may have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 students.
8. The problems for the middle school contest cover topics in arithmetic, elementary algebra, elementary geometry, simple counting and probability, and facts about prime factorizations and divisibility of numbers.
9. The problems for the high school contest cover a wider range of topics including advanced algebra, geometry, combinatorics, probability, trigonometry, conic sections, functions, and so forth.
10. No problems require techniques from calculus.

You can practice before the contest on the problems and solutions from older contest in http://purplecomet.org/welcome/practice. For more information about Purple Comet! Math Meet, you can access http://purplecomet.org/.