There is a regular season of FOUR competitions/contests. The Final Test is for the individual s, depends on the Contest 1-4 scores. finals Contest is an individual, the qualified students will be invited by the ACSL ( depends on the 4 contest scores).
There is a $30 per-student registration fee pay directly to the acsl to participate in the Finals.
More details are available in the Finals page of ACSL.ORG.
Session 1: Number systems, bases
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- Introduce the concept of bases. Specifically, bases 2, 8, 10, and 16. Practice converting between base 10 and other bases.
- Practice problems involving converting to/from base 10. Specifically, challenge/contest problems.
- Learn about math in different bases. Practice this math.
- Practice problems involving math in different bases/ Specifically, challenge/contest problems. Mix in some problems that involve converting to/from base 10.
- Learn about grouping bits into different digits (i.e. the motivation behind octal/hex), and the RGB color system.
- Practice problems involving RGB and bit groupings. Specifically, challenge/contest problems. Test taking strategies.
- Test taking strategies. Mixed problem review.
- Full practice tests.
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Session 2: Prefix/Infix/Postfix math notation (i.e. representing math in the form). Students need to understand order of operations
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- Review / debrief the first exam. Discuss the problems, and any challenges people had. Introduce the concept of prefix / postfix / infix notation. How to evaluate. Practice evaluating.
- More practice evaluating prefix / postfix / infix.
- Review order of operations. Work on translating between different ways of expressing expressions.
- Continue to practice translating between different expressions.
- Practice problems.
- Full practice tests.
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Session 3: Boolean algebra
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- Review / debrief the second exam. Discuss the problems, and any challenges people had. Introduce and, or not. Introduce truth tables. Practice making truth tables.
- More practice with truth tables, and evaluating expressions.
- Introduce simplifying boolean expressions, and DeMorgan’s law. Practice this.
- Continue to practice simplifying, and DeMorgan’s law.
- Practice problems.
- Full practice tests.
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Session 4: Graph theory
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- Discuss / debrief contest 3. Introduce graphs, complete graphs. Begin to discuss paths, simple paths, and loops. Practice this.
- Practice problems involving topics learned the previous week
- Degree, traversability.
- Practice problems.
- Full practice tests.
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Final Contest :
Based on the scores during the regular season, top students in all divisions will be invited to participate in an online Finals competition:
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Invitations E-mailed: May 1, 2024 through May 16, 2024
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Invitational Finals ( the date will be announced by the ACSL.org)
There is a nominal per-student registration fee to participate in the Finals.
More details are available in the Finals page.
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