Eligibility Requirements: 

Students are recommended to compete in the division corresponding to the mathematics course in which they are currently enrolled. The enrollment price for each student from a FAMAT-member school is $7, while enrollment for each student from a non-FAMAT school is $10.

Official Eligibility Requirements by Division: 

All participating students must be enrolled in Algebra I or a more advanced mathematics course. 

If a student has completed an Algebra I class, they are no longer eligible to compete in Algebra I.

If a student has completed a Geometry class, they are no longer eligible to compete in Algebra I or Geometry.

If a student has completed an Algebra II class, they are no longer eligible to compete in Algebra I or Algebra II.

If a student has completed courses in both Algebra II and Geometry, they may only compete in Precalculus, Statistics, or Calculus. 

A student may compete in Precalculus unless they have been or are currently enrolled in a Calculus class.

Any student may compete in Statistics or Calculus. 

If you have any eligibility questions, please contact James Doker at dokerj@ufl.edu. 

Competition Format: 

Students and teams may compete for three levels of awards: individual, division, and school-wide. 

Each student may compete in one individual test. The individual tests will be thirty questions long, each question having five multiple-choice answers. Students will have sixty minutes to complete each test. The scoring will be 4 points for each correctly answered question, 0 points for a skipped question, and -1 point for each incorrectly answered question. The highest twenty scorers on each individual test will receive a trophy.

Each school may designate four students per division to be “team members.” Only the four team members in each division may take the team round test for that division. Team round test questions are answered on an individual basis, with teams working together to get a correct answer as fast as possible. Each team will get four minutes to work together and answer a free-response question. A correct answer in the first minute will receive 16 points, a correct answer in the second minute will receive 12 points, a correct answer in the third minute will receive 8 points, and a correct answer in the fourth minute will receive 4 points. There will be twelve such questions in the team round.

Teams compete for the division awards. The division score is the sum of the team round score for that division added together with the individual scores of the four team members. The five teams in each division with the highest division scores will receive awards, as will the four team members on those teams. 

Finally, the school-wide “Sweepstakes” award represents an overall evaluation of each school’s performance. The High School Sweepstakes award is based on the performance of each high school’s Geometry, Algebra II, Precalculus, Calculus, and Statistics division scores relative to the other schools. The best four division scores from those five divisions will count for each high school. 

The Junior Sweepstakes (for Middle Schools only) takes the best two division scores from Algebra I, Geometry, and Algebra II.  

Test Content Standards 

The material that each level of tests may cover is based on the Florida educational standards for each course. A detailed description of what material may appear on each test is available on the website for the tournament: http://www.bluekeymath.org/test_standards.htm