OVER 30 SCHOOLS COMPETE AT MATH FIELD DAY

Nearly 700 students from 33 area junior and senior high schools are expected to compete in the annual Math Field Day today at Southeast Missouri State University.

The event is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The day is slated to begin with a welcome at 9:30 a.m. in Academic Auditorium. The first competition will begin at 10 a.m. The last event will begin at 12:30 p.m. The competition will be held in both Academic Hall and Johnson Hall. An awards presentation will be held at 2 p.m. in Academic Hall.

The event is being sponsored by the university's mathematics department and the Southeast Missouri Council of Teachers of Mathematics. The competition will consist of 21 individual events, five team events and one problem-solving event.

During the day, ninth grade students will compete in the areas of word problems and number bases. Tenth grade students will compete in algebra I and geometry. Eleventh grade students will compete in algebra II, word problems, and exponential and log functions. Twelfth grade students will compete in the categories of matrices and determinants, analytic geometry and calculus.

Team events will be held in algebra I, algebra II, geometry, trigonometry and a medley. Open events will include: sets and logic, number theory, probability, computational mathematics, hand calculators, computer programming, the history of mathematics, mental arithmetic, algebra, geometry and trigonometry.