DS participated for the first time yesterday.
It made me think, that those sites/questions they post could be a great resource for our mathy kids. So I am posting a link to yesterdays problems with nice solutions to go along.
http://www.math.utah.edu/smc/2008/exams.html
If you search around that site you can find questions and answers going back to 2003 I believe.
The test was tough, as you can see:-)

So, if any of you know resources like that, would you kindly share?
Thanx.

Oooh! Thanks, Ania!

Wow, Ania, as I consider HSing for DS7, I realize I couldn't even take the 7-9 state math test. Looks like if I HS, DS won't be the only one being HS'd, LOL. I don't remember a thing from my years of math - or more likely, I didn't even know it to begin with.

I wasn't aware of any state math exams. Are these available in other states? I'll have to look around. That looks very cool. I hope your ds does well, Ania!

Yes, it was a very TOUGH test. They practically killed the kids with question number 1- LOL :-)
I think that this test has gotten progresively more difficult over the past three years. When you look at questions from 2006, they are dooable, most of them anyway. 2007 is more difficult and this year topped it. This test required some real math knowledge, not just logical problem solving. Some questions do require knowledge of CALC.
I like it though:-)

This is the purpose of this thread :-)
If you know any links, please post.

Ania, make me feel better. Is 7-9 grade 7-9, or age 7-9?

Grade :-)

Oh! Whew! I thought age.

Grade, yes. Okay.

Thanks. I still don't know the answers, but feel slightly better about my ignorance.

I don�t know of any links, but my 6th and 8th grade student have both be competing in an ongoing IL state math competition (8th grade level). They must be tough questions because the junior high science and math instructors (both are excellent) are collaborating/debating as they come up with their own answers.

The last score tally had points ranging from the low single digits to 18. DD currently has 17 and DS has 15 points.

LOL! No doubt!

Obviously having HG+ kids doesn't necessarily mean the parents are GT, given how long it took me to figure that out...

^^ here is the link, I believe
http://www.ictm.org/links/contest.html
but they are not posting any questions.

Here's a link with some contests. Some are no longer valid links.

Ohio has a new link here

Thank you. I am having fun

This is an elementary link, but I thought it might be helpful as a resource for some of you. I am not sure at what point this gets changed for the following year or even dropped until the next school year. If you are interested, you might want to download soon.

I am not sure if there is a chance of getting previous questions from the competitions or not. The person to contact with that would be Kyle Harrop. kharrop@iasp.org

The invitational questions at http://www.iasp.org/dspmath.aspx are a mixed bag. Some are relatively easy. Others make one think. There is a time during the "season" that practice questions are posted. The competition for the kids is the first Tuesday in March every year, so the postings are sometime prior to that.

TAMS offers 2 practice exams (w/ answers) for prospective students.

http://www.tams.unt.edu/admission/admission.shtml

Also... http://www.mathleague.com/books.htm

Math League Contest -- sample tests/answers for grades 4-HS

Was this already mentioned...sorry spacing out...

http://www.unl.edu/amc/

American Mathematics Competitions - The Mathematical Association of America