North Carolina Math Contests
(NCC, UNC, WCC)
North Carolina State Mathematics Contests were started in 1979 by the N.C. State Department of Public Instruction and by a group of college and university mathematics instructors who had been sponsoring regional mathematics contests. The main purpose of the contests was to bring together the best math students from the state and to reward them for their outstanding performances.
There are currently three Acces modules that contain problems from the North Carolina math contests: NCC, WCC, and UNC. Each database is updated annually to include new contest problems. The NCC database is a collection of over 2900 mostly multiple-choice problems and about 480 diagrams from previous state comprehensive contests and regional contests in Algebra I, Algebra II, and Geometry. The WCC and UNC databases contain problems from the Western Carolina University Math Contest and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Math Contest, two of the 30 local contests whose winners advance to the state contest.
The WCC database contains over 3000 multiple-choice problems and 540 pictures from all contest levels since 1981 (Algebra I, Algebra II, Geometry, and Comprehensive). The UNC database contains more than 1100 multiple-choice problems and 130 diagrams from 1980 through last school year. In all three databases, the problems have been rearranged topically and are fully indexed, so you can recreate a particular contest, if you like.
As with all of EducAide's multiple-choice databases, the questions in the North Carolina Contest databases can serve a variety of purposes. They are written and stored on the computer in such a way that choices can be scrambled, reversed, modified to include "none of the above", or even hidden to make the questions free-response. They are also wonderful problems for creating "problem-of-the-day" calendars, which can be generated with Acces.