亲爱的家长或监护人:
2025年1月22日至1月28日，您的孩子将参加贵校举办的第40届美国数学竞赛(AMC)8。AMC8是全国领先的中学数学竞赛，旨在培养下一代问题解决者的数学能力。
参加 AMC8的学生有机会培养创造性的定量思维技能，这使他们更好地为高中数学课程的成功做好准备。此外，数学推动了塑造我们社会的创新，并在广泛的职业中都有用，甚至那些传统上不是数学、科学或技术性的职业。通过提供这些竞赛，美国数学协会(MAA)旨在挑战和激励学生成为终身的数学学习者。
AMC8向每个学生提出新的、不同的和“跳出框框”的数学挑战。竞赛问题比数学课程中经常遇到的那些问题更复杂，但它们的设计与中学数学标准相联系，以确保它们都在学生的掌握范围内。竞赛成功的衡量标准不是解决的问题数量，而是对数学的参与程度，这种参与程度来自于解决问题的过程中所遇到的智力挑战。
我希望你们的学生喜欢比赛，并继续在数学的道路上取得成功，并热爱数学。
真诚地属于你，
多莉·厄尔
道格·恩斯利
竞赛事务副主任
MAA美国数学竞赛
Dear Parent or Guardian:
Between January 22 and January 28, 2025, your child will participate in the 40thannual American Mathematics Competitions AMC 8 being offered at your school. The AMC 8 is the nation's leading mathematics competition for middle school students and is designed to cultivate the mathematical capabilities of the next generation of problem-solvers.
Students who take the AMC 8 have the opportunity to develop creative quantitative
thinking skills, which better prepares them to succeed in high school math classes.
Furthermore, mathematics drives the innovations that shape our society and is useful in a broad range of careers, even those that are not traditionally mathematical, scientific, or technological in nature. By offering these competitions the Mathematical Association of America MAA aims to challenge and inspire students to become lifelong learners of mathematics.
The AMC8challenges each student with mathematics that is new, different, and
“outside the box.ˮ Competition problems are more complex than those encountered
routinely in math courses, but they are designed to connect to middle school
mathematics standards to ensure they are within the reach of students. The measure of success in the competition is not the number of problems solved but the level of
engagement with the mathematics that arises from the intellectual challenge of the
problem-solving process.
I hope your student enjoys the competition and continues down the path to a lifetime of success with, and love of, mathematics.
Sincerely yours,
Doug Ensley
Deputy Director of Competitions
MAAAmerican Mathematics Competitions