ICTM Math Contest

Grade School/Junior High

2022-2023
Welcome to the 2022-2023 ICTM Grade School/Junior High Math Contest. We hope that these contests
will challenge your students and promote further appreciation and exploration of mathematics.
Each contest packet contains the rules for running the contest, one set of questions (both team and
individual) for the contest, a blank student answer form for each competition, answer keys for grading,
and worked out solutions. You may make as many copies of the questions as you need to involve as
many students and teams as you want. Your school score will consist of the scores of the top two teams
and top 10 individuals for each contest.
The first part of the contest is a team competition, with each team consisting of a maximum of 5 students
who work together on 20 questions for 25 minutes. You may involve as many such teams as you wish.
The second part is for individuals who work on 8 problems for 20 minutes. Again, you may involve as
many students as you wish. Calculators are allowed, and encouraged, on all contests.
Students should not expect to be able to answer all the questions correctly within the allotted time frame.
Please let your students know this. The questions are written to challenge them to higher goals. For
many students, answering even half of them will be considered very good. After the contest, you may
wish to discuss strategies for solutions and may use the solution guide for this purpose.
Please note the contest deadlines. It is important to adhere to these deadlines in order for results to be
tabulated and posted in a timely manner. If emergency situations occur, please contact me as soon as
possible. We will continue to use the online process for reporting results this year. You will receive a
separate email with more details about reporting your results via the website.
Also included is a master certificate, which may be copied for use as you desire. Some schools like to
give one certificate to each participant; some schools award the top scorers. You may utilize it as best
fits your needs.
We welcome your comments. Are the questions too easy, too hard? Are you using them to promote
classroom discussions after the contest is held? Are you discussing different ways to solve the
problems? Feel free to send your comments and suggestions with the results.
Good luck to you and your students. I hope you and your students enjoy the competition and challenge!
Let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Carol Nenne
ICTM Math Contest Chair
3817 S. Lombard Ave.
Cicero, IL 60804-4132
[email protected]
h: 708-656-7196
c: 708-205-7568
 2022 - 2023 ICTM Math Contest
Grades 3-8 Competitions
Contest #1 Nov 9 – Dec 16; Scores due December 16
Contest #2 Jan 18 – Feb 23; Scores due February 23
Contest #3 Mar 15 – Apr 20; Scores due April 20
In this packet you should find the following:
1. Team and individual questions.
2. Blank student answer forms.
3. Answer keys
4. Worked out solutions

Each contest consists of two parts.

1. The first part will be a 25 minute team competition where students will work on 20 questions. Up to five
member teams will work as a group and will submit one group answer sheet. A school may field as many 5
person teams as it wishes and the top TWO team scores will be submitted for determining school totals. Teams
may consist of less than 5 members, but not more than 5. You may change the make-up of any 5 person team
from contest to contest if you desire.
It is recommended that teachers talk with their students about team organization before the students work as a
team. For example: who will record the answers, who will keep track of the problems worked and checked, etc.
2. The second part of the contest is the individual competition. An unlimited number of students may
compete in this part of the contest. Students will work independently for 20 minutes on eight problems. Each
school will report the top TEN individual scores on this portion of the contest.

General Rules:
1. Answers should be in simplified form.
2. Answers should be exact unless approximations are specified.
3. Answers should include only necessary units. (i.e. a.m. or p.m. for time problems, $ or cents for money
problems). If a problem asks, for example, how many inches is the perimeter of a shape, only the
numerical answer is required for this contest.
4. The use of calculators is encouraged and, in some cases, necessary.
5. Equivalent answers should be considered correct. For example, if an answer is 2 12 , 2.5 is also accepted.
6. A student may participate at his/her grade level and/or above his/her grade level.
7. No test giver is permitted to assist any team or individual during the competition.

You will use your login (your email address) and your existing password to enter your school results. Specific
instructions about data entry will be sent via email. Plan to enter the data for your top 2 teams and top 10
individuals by the date indicated for each contest. You will need to record which problems each student/team
answered correctly. School total scores will be calculated automatically. After the posting date, you will also use
this login to view results and statistics.

Schools should keep student answer sheets in case of any questions or corrections. If desired, each school may
keep cumulative totals for its students.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Have fun with the contest!

Carol Nenne, ICTM Contest Chair

[email protected]
h: 708-656-7196
c: 708-205-7568
ICTM 8th Grade Mathematics Contest
(2022 - 2023) - Team #2
Science
1. Cassie made a chart of the portion of her homework 1
time she spent on each subject. If she spent 3 hours
one weekend on her homework, how many 6
minutes did she spend on math? Math
2. In an election, Andy got 5 more votes than Bill,
Language
Bill got 3 less votes than Cathy, Cathy got 7 more Arts
votes than Dan, and Dan got 12 less votes than Eve. 1
Andy got k more/less votes than Eve. What is the
value of k? Use a positive number for more votes
History 4
and a negative number for less votes. 1
3. A bookshop has 2,400 books that are either fiction or 6
non-fiction, of which 1,600 are fiction. After a delivery
arrives that has 400 non-fiction books, what fractional
part of the books in the shop are non-fiction?

4. The number of bacteria in a pond doubles every hour.

A farmer sprays it every two hours and the spray kills
3
of the bacteria immediately. There are 10,000 live
4
bacteria after the farmer sprays at noon. How many
live bacteria are there at 11 pm that night?

5. If 3x  28  85 , what is the value of 6 x  85 ?

6. When 8 is put “In” the machine, 24 comes “Out”

of the machine. What number comes “Out” when you
put 2 “In” the machine?

7. Records at a hospital show that 60% of all serious bicycle

accidents involved head injuries, and 85% of those were
where the rider was not wearing a helmet. If there were
200 serious bicycle accidents, how many involved a head
injury to a rider who was not wearing a helmet?

8. Juan has three $10 bills, four $5 bills, and two $1 bills.
Paul has 2 more $10 bills, half the number of $5 bills, and
twice the number of $1 bills as Juan. How many dollars
must Paul give Juan so they each have the same amount?

9. Define the operation  as a  b  a 2  b 2 . For what

value(s) of b does 12  b  169 ?

10. In the operation chain below, what is the value of a?

ICTM 8th Grade Mathematics Contest
(2022 - 2023) - Team #2 p. 2
(24x + 8)°
11. The two angles shown form a line. (5x - 2)°
Determine the number of degrees in
the measure of the smaller angle.

12. Jack decided he needed to cut down on the number

of cookies he was eating, so each day he ate 5 less 12

cookies than the day before. If he finished the box of

50 cookies in the shortest number of days, eating a 10
whole number of cookies each day, how many cookies
did he eat on the first day?
8

13. The point (10, k ) is on the line shown on the

6
graph. What is the value of k?

14. There are two wheels on a pushcart, one with a 9 inch 4

radius and one with a 4 inch radius. If the large wheel

turns 16 times while the cart rolls along in a straight line, 2
how many times will the small wheel turn?

15. 20% of 50 is 50% of x. What is the value of x? 5 5

16. Jean is purchasing some box meals for a party. 2

She purchases some $13 sandwich boxes and some
$5 desert boxes. If the total cost of her purchase is
$100, how many desert boxes did she buy?

17. How many different odd numbers greater than 1

divide into 2023 without leaving a remainder? B C
18. When the length of rectangle ABCD is tripled and the
width of rectangle ABCD is halved, by how many square
yards is its area increased or decreased? Give an increase
as a positive number and a decrease as a negative number.
length =
19. The point ( 5,  2 ) is reflected over the y-axis. What are 10 yards
the coordinates of the reflected point? Give your answer
as an ( x, y ) ordered pair.

20. Point B is located halfway between points A and C on the A D

given number line. What is the coordinate of point B? width =
6 yards
A B C

4.28 ? 10.64
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TEAM ANSWER SHEET
Student Names:

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______________________________ Grade level:___________________

School:__________________________________________________________

1. 11. Score:

2. 12.

3. 13.

4. 14.

5. 15.

6. 16.

7. 17.

8. 18.

9. 19.

10. 20.
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Grade 8 – Contest #2
ANSWER KEY

75 28
1. 11.

3 20
2. 12.
3
8
3. 7 13.

20,000 36
4. 14.

29 20
5. 15.
4 7
6. 16.

102 5
7. 17.

$6 30
8. 18.
5, 5   5,  2 
9. 19.
 12 7.46
10. 20.
ICTM 8th Grade Mathematics Contest
(2022 - 2023) - Team #2 Solutions

1. 3 hours is 3  60  180 minutes. She spent 1

6  180  30 minutes on each of science and history and
1
4  180  45 minutes on language arts, so she spent 180  30  30  45  75 minutes on math. You
could also find the fractional part of the time on math 1  16  14  16  125  and then multiply that by 180
minutes.

2. Let Eve have x votes, then Dan had x  12 votes, Cathy had x  12  7  x  5 votes, Bill had
x  5  3  x  8 votes and Andy x  8  5  x  3 votes so Andy got 3 less votes than Eve, and k  3

3. With 1,600 fiction books, there are 2, 400  1, 600  800 non-fiction books. After the delivery, there will
be 2, 400  400  2,800 total books, of which 800  400  1, 200 are non-fiction. The fractional part of
1, 200 400 3
the books that are non-fiction is  
2,800 400 7

4. The number of bacteria will double to 20,000 by 1:00, and then to 40,000 by 2:00, when he sprays again
and kills 34  40, 000  30, 000 so there are 40, 000  30, 000  10, 000 left at 2pm. Repeating this same
cycle during each 2 hours period after that, there will be 10,000 bacteria at 4pm, 6pm, 8pm and 10pm.
The number doubles between 10pm and 11pm so there are 20, 000 bacteria at 11pm.

5. 3x  28  85  3x  57  x  19 so 6 x  85  6 19   85  114  85  29

6. When 8 is put “In” it is doubled to 2  8  16 and then 8 is added to get 16  8  8 . When k is
subtracted, 24 comes out, so 8  k  24   k  24  8   k  16  k  16 . Then when 2 is
put “In” it is doubled to 2  2  4 and then 8 is added to get 4  8  12 . In the bottom box k  16 is
subtracted, so 12  16  4 comes “Out”

7. Out of 200 serious bicycle accidents, .60  200  120 involved head injuries. Of those .85  120  102
were injuries to riders who were not wearing a helmet.

8. Juan has a total of  3  $10    4  $5   2  $1  $30  $20  2  $52 . Paul has four $10 bills, two $5
bills, and four $1 bills for a total of  5  $10    2  $5   4  $1  $50  $10  $4  $64 . Paul has
$64  $52  $12 more than Juan, so he would need to give him half for them both to have the same
amount. 12  $12  $6

9. 12  b  122  b 2  169  144  b 2  169  b 2  25  b  5, 5

10. Work backwards from the end: 7  11  18 in the square, then 18  3  6 in the hexagon, and
6  k  2  k  4 to get 2 in the rectangle. Continuing backwards, 2  k  2  4  8 in the
triangle, and then a  8  k  8  4  12
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11. If the angles form a line, the total of their measures is 180 , so 24 x  8  5 x  2  180 . Combine the
like terms to get 29 x  6  180  29 x  174  x  6 . The angles are then  24  6   8   152 and
 5  6   2   28 and the smaller angle has measure 28

12. You don’t know how many days this took him, so try working backwards. When he’s done, he will
have eaten 0 cookies, so the day before he ate 5, on the day before that he ate 10, etc. Add until you get
a sum of 50: 5  10  15  20  50 so on the first day he ate 20 cookies.

13. Notice that when x  0 , y  12 ; when x  2, y  8 ; when x  4, y  4 ; when x  6, y  0 so for every

increase of 2 in x, there is an associated decrease of 4 in y. Continuing, when x  8, y  0  4  4 and
when x  10, y  4  4  8  k  8 . Note that you could also use the idea of slope and/or write the
equation of the line and substitute the given point.

14. The circumference of the large wheel is C  2 r  2  9   18 inches. If it turns 16 times, it will
cover a total of 16  18  288 inches. With a radius of 4 inches, the small wheel has circumference
C  2  4   8 , so to cover the same distance, it will turn 288
8  36 times.


15. .20  50  10 so 10 is 50% of x: 10  .5 x  x  10  .5  20

16. Let s be the number of sandwich boxes and let d be the number of desert boxes. Then 13s  5d  100 
100  13s 13
5d  100  13s  d   d  20  s . In order to have a whole number of desert boxes, 135 s
5 5
must be a whole number, so s could be 5, 10, 15, …. However, since 20  135 s must be positive, 135 s
must be less than 20. The only value of s that will make that possible is s  5 . Then
13
d  20   5   d  20  13  7 . Alternately, since both the cost of the desert boxes  5d  and 100
5
are multiples of 5, we need the cost of the sandwich boxes, which is 13s , to also be a multiple of 5.
Since 13 is prime, the smallest multiple of 5 is 13  5   65 , so that leaves $100  $65  $35 for the
desert boxes. At $5 each, that is $35  $5  7 boxes.
17. Try odd numbers: 3 doesn’t divide into 2023 evenly since the sum of the digits is not divisible by 3. 5
doesn’t divide evenly because 2023 doesn’t end in 0 or 5. Try 7: 2023  7  289 . 289 is 17 2 so
combinations of these that are odd numbers also work  7  17  119 and 17  17  289  . 2023 is also an
odd number that divides into itself evenly so there are 5 different odd numbers  7, 17, 119, 289, 2023

18. The area of ABCD is 10  6  60 square yards. In the transformed rectangle, the new length is
10  3  30 yards and the width is 12  6  3 yards, so the new area is 30  3  90 square yards, an
increase of 90  60  30 square yards.

19. Reflecting over the y-axis changes the sign on the x-coordinate, so the reflected point is  5,  2 

20. If B is halfway between A and C, it is the midpoint:  4.28  10.64   2  14.92  2  7.46
ICTM 8th Grade Mathematics Contest
(2022 - 2023) - Individual #2
Number of Pets Owned by
1. If a  4 , b  2 and c  8 , what is the value Students
a 2  4b
? 5 pets
c
4 pets
2. Abby made a chart of the number of students who 3 pets
owned each given number of pets. If k is the
2 pets
fractional part of her class who own 2 or less pets,
and w is the fractional part of her class who own 1 pet
4 or more pets, what is the fractional value k  w ? 0 pets

3. In a relay race, Jack ran twice as far as Xavier, 0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Xavier ran three times as far as Michael, and Number of Students
Michael ran four times as far as Ethan. If the
total distance run was 3075 meters, how many
meters did Jack run? 127.5°
4. In the 7-sided polygon shown, the sum of all (x - 15)°
angles is 900 . What is the degree measure x°
of the smallest angle in this polygon?

5. Margo’s classroom number is 4 more than

a multiple of 135. If classroom numbers (x - 15)° x°
at her school go from 100 to 499, what is
the sum of all possibilities for her classroom
number?
x°
6. Victor finds that his resting heart rate is 62 beats
127.5°
per minute. At this rate, how many times will his
heart beat in one day?

7. Denise’s volleyball team won 5 of their first 6 games.

If they then won 8 of their next 14 games, what is their
overall winning percentage?

8. In the given diagram AEB and CED are equal

and BEC has a degree measure that is 2 less
than twice the degree measure of CED . If the
measure of AED is 146 , what is the degree
measure of AEC ? B C
A

E D
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Student Name________________________________ Grade:____________

School Name________________________________

City________________________________________

1. Score:

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Grade 8 – Contest #2
ANSWER KEY

1
1.
9
2. 16

1800
3.

120
4.

822
5.

89,280
6.

65%
7.

109
8.
ICTM 8th Grade Mathematics Contest
(2022 - 2023) - Individual #2 Solutions

4 2  4  2  16   8 8
1. Substitute the given values:   1
8 8 8

2. There are a total of 1  3  6  9  10  3  32 students in her class. Of those, 9  10  3  22 students

22 4
had 2 or less pets and 3  1  4 students owned 4 or more pets. Then k  and w  so
32 32
22 4 18 18 2 9
kw   , which reduces to  
32 32 32 32 2 16

3. Let x be the number of meters Ethan ran, so Michael ran 4x meters, Xavier ran 3  4 x   12 x and Jack
3075
ran 2 12 x   24 x , so the total distance run is x  4 x  12 x  24 x  41x and 41x  3075  x  
41
x  75 . Since Jack ran 24x meters, he ran 24  75   1800 meters

4. Add the degree measures of the angles: x  x  x  127.5  x  15  x  15  127.5  5 x  225 . Since
these add to 900, solve 5 x  225  900  5 x  675  x  135 . Angles are 127.5, x  135 , and
 x  15   135  15   120 . The smallest angle has degree measure 120

5. Possible multiples of 135 are 135  1  135 , 135  2  270 and 135  3  405 (note that 135  4  540 ,
which is too large). Then room numbers that are 4 more than a multiple of 135 are 135  4  139 ,
270  4  274 and 405  4  409 and their sum is 139  274  409  822

6. If his heart beats 62 times per minute, with 60 minutes in an hour, it will beat 62  60  3, 720 times in
an hour. With 24 hours in a day, it will beat 3720  24  89, 280 times in a day.

13 x 13 5 65
7. The team won 5  8  13 games out of 6  14  20 total games, so     so the
20 100 20 5 100
team has a winning percentage of 65%

8. Let AEB  CED  x . Then BEC   2 x  2   . All three angles add to 146 so
x  x  2 x  2  146  4 x  2  146  4 x  148  x  37 so AEB  CED  37 and
BEC   2  37   2     74  2    72 . Then AEC  37  72  109