Mathematics League

of

Eastern Massachusetts

Fall Meeting – September 23, 2004

Austin Preparatory School

Reading, MA

 

  1. Refreshments were served.
  2. Roll Call:  23 schools present
  3. Minutes from Spring ‘04 meeting distributed and approved.
  4. Treasurer’s report from Kelly McCormack:  $3073.92 in treasury, which is stable over the past two years.  Approved.
  5. Tabulator’s report:  Bob Velevis not available.  Tony requested all names be typed or printed clearly, last name first.  Bob will retire as tabulator at the end of this year.  Anyone interested in the position should contact Bob to learn the job.  Also, all names of students should be written the exact same way for each meet to avoid confusion.
  6. Test-Writer’s report given by Vaag Mosca for Kent Findell (not available):  Kent attempts to make the 1st questions easy, the 2nd questions more difficult, and 3rd question “a stitch.”  Kent will be visiting various clusters during the meets to get a sense of how things work and how the test questions are approached in different clusters.  Examples of counting problems were distributed for meet 5, category 4: combinations/probability.
  7. Division changes due to four schools dropping and 2 new schools joining.
  8. Proposal:  Move cluster meetings to 1st on agenda next year.  After discussion, it was decided that cluster meetings will take place each year at 4:30 PM, moving any remaining agenda items to the end of the meeting, after cluster meetings are done.  Also, any serious issues which may need to be discussed should be brought up in the Spring meetings, not the Fall meetings from now on.
  9. Geographic clusters were distributed.  Brookline was added to cluster 2, Weston to cluster 3.  Cluster 1 and Cluster 10 were combined.  Cluster 1 may be revamped for next year.
  10. We adjourned to cluster meetings at 4:24 PM.  J

 

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

 

Tony Biscardi

President