January 23, 2025
2025 AMC8
BASIS Independent Silicon Valley Lower School • 1500 Partridge AVE Sunnyvale, CA 94087 Organized by BASIS Independent Silicon Valley
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Dear Bobcat Families, AMC 8 | Registration Deadline: 11/15/2024 OPEN ONLY FOR: Grade 4 & Grade 5 students For more information about AMC 8, please contact Ms. Sinha : sweta.sinha@basisindependent.com BASIS Independent Silicon Valley Lower campus will be hosting the 2025 AMC 8 Competition. The AMC 8 is a 25-question, 40-minute, multiple-choice examination in middle school mathematics designed to promote the development of problem-solving skills. The AMC 8 provides an opportunity for middle school students to develop positive attitudes towards analytical thinking and mathematics that can assist in future careers. Students apply classroom learned skills to unique problem-solving challenges in a low-stress and friendly environment. The material covered on the AMC 8 includes topics from a typical middle school mathematics curriculum. Possible topics include but are not limited to: counting and probability, estimation, proportional reasoning, elementary geometry including the Pythagorean Theorem, spatial visualization, everyday applications, and reading and interpreting graphs and tables. In addition, some of the later questions may involve linear or quadratic functions and equations, coordinate geometry, and other topics. Permitted materials: #2 lead pencils, blank scratch paper, ruler and eraser. Prohibited materials: Calculators, smart watches, phones, compasses, graph paper and protractors Exam Type: In-person(paper) Grades: 4 – 5 (14.5 years or younger) When: Thursday, January 23, 2025 - AMC 8 Time: 4:15PM-5.15PM Location: BISVL, 1500 Partridge Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94087 Follow the below link to reserve your test by October 15, 2024, for $50. After October 15, only if there are available tests, you may reserve your test for $65.