Mathematics League
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 The
Minnesota Junior High School Mathematics
League was founded in 1986 by Marlys Henke. It was originally formed
with eight junior high schools from the City of St. Paul, and was
modeled after the Minnesota State High School Mathematics League
(MSHSML). The two organizations share the same triangle symbol
The purpose of the JHML is to encourage students to participate in math contests, serve as a "farm club" for the MSHSML, enable students to meet mathletes from other schools, and to provide recognition for students excelling in mathematics. It also serves as preparation for the annual MathCounts competition. The meet topics are based on the MathCounts topics. Member schools belong to a division of two to fifteen schools that often are aligned with their athletic conference competitors. Each school has a team ( or teams ) with a maximum of six students with no more than four eighth graders. Individual participation is also encouraged for those not on the official team. For those schools with a ninth grade, there is a ninth grade competition available. The teams in each division come together for five meets each season.. During the 2007-2008 season the League had over 2250 students from 132 schools around the state of Minnesota participating in 25 divisions. Ms. Henke started her teaching career in 1968,
teaching math and chemistry in Zambia, Africa. In 1970 she joined the
St. Paul Public Schools where she taught chemistry at the old Mechanic
Arts High School. In the late 1970's Ms. Henke taught math and science
at Highland Park Junior High School. In 1980 she became a member of the
math department at St. Paul Central High School. She became the coach
of the Central Math Team in 1984 and brought them to the State
Tournament every year from 1990 to 2004, winning the State Championship
in 1997 and 2001. In June of 2004 she retired from active
teaching, but remains active in the Senior High Math League. At the 2005 Summer Conference of the Minnesota
Senior High School Math League, MS. Henke was inducted in the first
class of the League's Hall of Fame. Ms. Henke has also coached Minnesota's American Regions Math League teams and has been State Director of the American Junior High School Math Exam given every November. The 2009-10 season starts in October. Coaches need to get their Letter of Intent sent in. A listing of those schools that have registered is under the "Division Information" button to the left. The 2009 Letter of Intent can be found at the Coach's Information button. The form is a PDF file that you can fill in and then save on your computer, as well as print. You can then send in an electronic copy to let us know your plans, while waiting for your office to complete the paper work. We recognize that times are difficult for school systems, and there has been no increase in fee for the fourth year in a row. Meets start on Monday, October 5th. A number of schools that participated last year have not yet registered. Check under the "Division Information" button to the left to see if we have your school yet. Results from each meet will be posted as I get them entered. It usually takes a week from the time of the meet to get it done. (Meet 1 takes a little longer.) I try to have all Division and State Wide results posted by the Saturday after the second meet date. Most Meet 2 results are in and posted. State wide results have been posted. There were an extraordinary number of perfete papers written for this meet. One team was two points away from a perfect meet. You should exptect that the following meets will be a little harder.
The new 2009-2010
schedule can be found
under the Schedule button. The topics for the 2009-2010 have not changed from last year. Except:
beginning this season no calculators will be allowed on any of the
events. Topics can be
found under the "Topics" button to the left as well as in the Coach's
Manual found under the "Coach's Information" button. The Coach's Manual
has been updated to reflect this change.
The work on the new database is not going well. Too much new information for me to learn. I will be using the old spread sheet again this year.
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This site was last updated November 8, 2009.
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A new Excel
spreadsheet for the
Team Roster has been added. This will allow coaches to keep track of
scores electronically and then e-mail them in. There are also forms as
PDF documents that you can fill out and save on your computer and then
send me an electronic version. It also will add up all of the scores.
If you are going to be filling out a form by hand please use the form
that you can't fill out on your computer. It will not place a zero in
the total blank and makes it easier for me to read. All the forms can
be found under the "Coach's Information" button. If you can think of a
way that might make it easier for you to fill out forms, or send them
in, let me know and I will see what I can do.