2023 MATHCOUNTS competition at Emmaus High School
We are proud hosts of the Lehigh Valley MATHCOUNTS Competition!
MATHCOUNTS is a national math coaching and competition program for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students that promotes interest and ability in math by making math excellence as challenging, exciting, and prestigious as achievement in sports. MATHCOUNTS has reached more than 4,000,000 students in its 36-year history. It works because it is a partnership of the educational, business, and technological communities.
Many of the students who compete begin preparing in the fall. They work with their coaches on the included MATHCOUNTS topics: basic arithmetic, logic, probability and statistics, linear algebra, polynomials, and number series. Coaches hold In-school competitions in January to select each school’s team.
The Lehigh Valley MATHCOUNTS competition occurs in February each year. The team that wins the Lehigh Valley competition advances to the state competition in March, which is hosted in Harrisburg. Additionally, the four highest-ranking individuals from the Countdown Round and the two highest-ranking individuals who were not on the winning team also compete on the state level. The top students from Pennsylvania then move on to compete for national honors in May in Washington, DC.