Team, (The previous email was an email I scheduled yesterday, assuming there was no way you’d have 3 snow days in a row.) I know you are all disappointed that school is closed tomorrow and were worried we wouldn’t have our normal meeting. Don’t worry: I reserved the large conference room at the Wright Library…

Team, We will be doing the MathCounts school team round on Wednesday. The teams will be assigned, so most of you won’t be at your normal tables. We will take a team picture after the team round. Please wear your team shirt to practice. Enjoy the snow day, Coach Ben

Team, Great work on the Target Round today. There were some pretty challenging questions. Congratulations to Xutao for getting 6 correct and to Adrian, Adam, and Lucien for getting 5 correct. Special shoutout to Mingsu and Xutao for being the only ones to get question #8 correct. I’m proud of the effort everyone put in.…

Team, This week we are taking the MathCounts Team Target round. This score will be combined with the score from last week to determine the first 8 mathcounts spots. The week is the last week for bonus work to count for the other 6 spots for MathCounts. If you want to go to MathCounts, I…

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the competition today. I’m excited by everyone’s scores. Before I get to the results: – Please fill out the form on availability for competition by Friday. – The last day to turn in bonus work to count toward MathCounts is next week. As a reminder, the minimum points needed…

Team,This week we are taking the School MathCounts Sprint Round. This is the first of 2 school competitions that determines which OJH students will compete at Dayton MathCounts. If you are not going to be there, let me know ASAP, and I will try to find another opportunity for you to take the competition. Here…

Team, The next couple months are what we have be preparing for this school year. We have 8 competitions in the next 2 months. There’s a lot going on, so here is an update with all the competitions in the same place. For Saturday competitions, Parents would be responsible for getting kids to and from…

Team, Great job on Math Olympiad #3 today. Congratulations to Adrian, Erica, Jonathan, and Max for getting 5 out of 5! Additional shoutout to those 4 plus Delaney for getting question 5 correct. That was a tough problem. Our average score was 2.8, compared to a national average of 2.6, so far. I have attached…

AMC 8 If you want to take the AMC 8 on January 27th, but have not filled out the form, please do so:https://forms.gle/rAE3o3Fh7C3YV6Li9 2026 Our first practice of 2026 will be Math Olympiad #3. The 3 weeks after that are the school MathCounts competition. If you are going to miss any of those days (Jan…

Team, We will take the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) American Mathematics Competition (AMC) 8 on Tuesday, January 27. The AMC 8 is a competition designed for 7th and 8th graders. 9th and 10th graders take the AMC 10 and 11th and 12th graders take the AMC 12. The AMC 10 and AMC 12 are…

Team, We will not meet for the next 3 weeks (due to exams and winter break). Our practice schedule through February is pasted at the bottom of this email. If you are going to miss any of the competitions and want to participate, tell me in advance, and I’ll do my best to find another…

Great work to everyone on the prime number and pythagorean triple challenge. After the challenge, we worked on some problems that incorporated some competition question strategies, like using prime numbers and pythagorean triples to identify shortcuts in some problems. We also worked on some problems from workout 3. The problems and solutions from both of…

If you are not available for the Dayton Chapter MathCounts on February 7 at Wright State, please let me know. Thank you, Coach Ben

Team, Congratulations on your performance on the Prime number and pythagorean challenge. This is by far the most people who have gotten both the prime numbers and pythagorean triples correct. 12 students correctly wrote down the prime numbers under 100 and first 4 pythagorean triples in under 3 minutes. (For context, we had 4 last…

Team, I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. As a reminder, we will start practice on Wednesday with a 3-minute prime number and pythagorean triple challenge. You will have 3 minutes to write down the the prime numbers between 1 and 100 and the first 4 pythagorean triples. If you get the prime numbers right,…

Team, Please see the bottom of this email for a list of attachments. No practice next week due to Thanksgiving Break. If that’s too long for you to go without math team, I encourage you to do the mathcounts trainer (https://artofproblemsolving.com/mathcounts_trainer/). Our next practice will be December 3rd. At the beginning of practice, we will…

Team, The shirts are in! I will bring them to practice on Wednesday to hand out. The printer recommended washing the shirts inside out, and hanging them to dry. Do not put the in the dryer. The supplier did not have Adult XS, so if you ordered an Adult XS, you will receive a Youth…

Team, Great job on the first Math Olympiad. When I looked at the contest yesterday, I thought it looked harder than a usual November MOEMS, but you guys crushed it. As a team, we scored an average of about 0.7 points above where we scored last year (relative to the national average). Twelve out of…

Pizza. Wednesday is our first Math Olympiad (MOEMS). This is an official competition. We will have 1 each month through March. Your score will be the sum of all 5 Math Olympiad competitions. Get to practice and get set up as soon as possible. I want to save time at the end to go over…

Parents, Now that the school year is in full swing, I wanted to resend these documents and highlight some items specific to MathCounts. The Chapter MathCounts competition at Wright State on February 7 is the only competition that limits the number of students we can bring. The Chapter MathCounts competition is our equivalent to the…

Team, This past weekend we solved some problems with help from the assistant coaches. Then we solved similar problems without help from the assistant coaches. If you found those problems interesting, I got them from: http://mathcounts.saab.org/mc.cgi At that website, you can choose how many and what types of problems you want. After you submit your…

Team, We will be having our usual practice and pizza om Wednesday. We are going to set up a fun competition between the tables. I have attached the bonus work from last week. Also, if you’ve made progress on the MathCounts trainer (aops.com/mc), show me a screenshot, so you can get your reward. Take care,…

Team, I posted a walk-through of the solution to the Math Olympiad problem from last week. It is the one that asks you to determine the value of circles, squares, and triangles. The link is: https://youtu.be/9KRWJcGLuxQ?si=AAfiIi3jx1JXMU4H If that is helpful, I can take time to make more for specific problems. If it’s not helpful, I…

Team, We will be meeting on Wednesday, same time, same place, same pizza. This week: Triangles! We didn’t really have time to go over question 4E from the practice MOEMS last week. It was the question with equations made from circles, triangles, and squares. The link to the youtube is: https://youtu.be/9KRWJcGLuxQThere’s a link to my…

Math Team, I will place the order for the shirts on Monday. If you have not placed an order yet, please do so. If you need to make any changes, please let me know this weekend. Take care, Coach Ben On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM Ben Boehm <mathcoachben> wrote: Team, It’s time to…

Team, Today, we used MOEMS Feb 2023 to practice how to check our work. Congratulations to the team members that made a mistake and were able to correct it. I have attached the MOEMS competition and the solutions. The link to the document that gave strategies for checking your work is: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xwynk2ct4xVuSjlWoq_BaVxFHD5zZtGooFOhiMSjxPA/edit?usp=sharing That document also…

Team, Pizza. We will be going over some MOEMS problems and strategies for checking your work. The bonus work was the miles/hour problems and the AOPS practice sprint questions 17-25. When you make progress on the MathCounts Trainer, show me a screenshot to get a reward. https://artofproblemsolving.com/mathcounts_trainer If you have not ordered your shirt yet,…

Team, It’s time to order shirts! The link to order shirts is: https://forms.gle/gyxM1bjC8VeK23N99 Thank you to Emily (Adam’s mom) for coming up with the awesome design (attached). We are getting jersey’s this year! (https://www.a4.com/n3181#color=383 or https://www.a4.com/nw3223#color=383). A shirt with the design printed on the front is $17. You can add a name to the back…

Team, Yesterday we went over some ways to avoid being tricked by speed/time/distance problems. You have 2 opportunities for bonus work this week. You can do both of them, one of them, or none of them. If you do both, you’ll get 2 bonus points. 1) Complete the practice problems we were working on during…

Team, The notes, problems, and solutions we went over during practice today are attached. The bonus work (AOPS 2024 Sprint 1-16) is attached. Please show me your bonus work at the beginning of practice. As a reminder, this and previous emails are available at: ojhmathteam.org Take care, Coach Ben AOPS 2024 -Sprint 1-16.pdf Units 8…

Team, Good work yesterday working together on the problems and helping your teammates out. You did an amazing job putting the room back together so quickly. I have attached the worksheet and solutions we did during practice. The bonus work for this week is the attached factoring stretch. I have also attached the formula and…

Team, This week we will explore Prime Factorization and the tricks and shortcuts we can use when we know the prime factorization of a number. And pizza. Last week’s practice test: Congratulations to all of you for working so hard and being so focused on the practice test last week. Shout out to Adrian, Max…

Team, Great work today. I have attached the practice competition and solutions you took today (2022 Chapter Sprint). I have also attached the bonus work (Warmup 3). Congratulations to Tiernan, Ben, Danny, Jonathon, and Josiah for completing all the bonus work so far this year. Keep it up! Also, a huge shoutout to Adrian for…

We will have pizza this week. This week we are going to do an individual MathCounts Sprint Round practice competition. This will give you an opportunity to experience what the competitions are like and practice staying focused. I’ll use the aggregated results to help decide which topics we will work on in future meetings. Shirt…

First: I apologize if you had to rush to class. I told Mr. Badenhop it was my fault, and he sent a note to all the OJH teachers excusing any math team tardies. I misjudged how long it would take to throw paper airplanes. Second: For those of you that left before the room was…

Great job today. I have attached the Warm up 1 problems and solutions we worked on during practice. The bonus work for this week, MOEMS Jan 2023, is attached. I have also attached a document that describes the details of competitions and bonus points. Bonus work reminders:– The 6 students with the most bonus points…

Team, We will have pizza this week. As soon as you get to the Orchestra Room, please start reconfiguring the room for practice. We are going to do some MathCounts problems and go over some solutions. We are also going to brainstorm some ideas for this year’s team shirt. As a reminder: The bonus work…

Parents, I hope the new school year is going well for your kids. Coach Rob and I are excited to work with them on the math team this year. I’ve attached 2 documents to this e-mail with details on the team. In the first one, I tried to outline what to expect this year. The…

Team, It was good to see everyone today. We watched a video and discussed having a growth mindset. If you want to watch it again, the video is at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl9TVbAal5s We talked about the MathCounts trainer. https://artofproblemsolving.com/mathcounts_trainer I encourage you to create an account and try it out. Spending time using it every week will…

Math Team, I feel like today was a good first day. We set some expectations, solved a problem, and gave away too much candy. We also successfully converted the room to math-team-mode, then back to orchestra-mode. If you have any friends who weren’t there today and want to be a part of the Math Team,…

Please meet in the Orchestra Room at Lunch on Wednesday for our first practice.  Please bring a lunch with you.  We will not have pizza this week.  It will be a few weeks before we get the logistics of pizza operational.   At the practice, we will select a winning answer from the people who returned a form at the activity fair.  You…

We are going to try to supplement our email communication for the 2025-2026 school year. We will put notifications we send out over email here. So, if you miss an email, you can read the posts here to find the information you are looking for (bonus work, contest information, etc.)