The Worcester County Mathematics League (WOCOMAL) is a high school mathematics league composed of 32 high schools, most of which are in Worcester County, Massachusetts. It organizes seven mathematics competitions per year, four at the "varsity" level (up to grade 12) and three at the "freshman" level (up to grade nine, including middle school students).
Top schools from the varsity competition are selected to attend the Massachusetts Association of Math Leagues state competition.
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A competition consists of four rounds at the Freshman level or five rounds at the Varsity level. The team round consists of eight problems at the Freshman level and nine at the Varsity level. Regardless of level, each student competes in three of the individual rounds.
In each individual round, competing students have ten minutes to answer three questions, worth one, two, and three points. The maximum meet score for a student is eighteen points.
The Worcester County Mathematics League was originally formed in 1963 as the Southern Worcester County Mathematics League (Sowocomal)[1]. The winningest school in league history is St. John's High School, with twelve league championships in the fourteen year span between 1983–84 and 1996-97. Algonquin Regional High School won six consecutive league championships from 1998-99 to 2003-04.[2]
The league currently has members from Worcester and western Middlesex Counties. It has had members from Hampshire County, Massachusetts, and Windham County, Connecticut.
In the 2010-11 season, the varsity division champion was Worcester Academy[3] and the freshman division champion was the Advanced Math and Science Academy Charter School.[4] Worcester Academy has won the varsity championship for four straight years.[5] AMSA's freshman championship comes in only its second year of league competition.
League members Nashoba Regional High School, Westborough High School, and St. John's High School ranked first, third, and fourth among medium-sized schools in the 2011 state math championship. Worcester Academy and AMSA took first and second place among small-sized schools.[6][7] Seven WOCOMAL schools (those five plus Bromfield School and St. Peter-Marian High School) qualified for the New England championship, a league record.
At the 2011 New England championship, Worcester Academy and AMSA took first and third place in New England among small schools and Nashoba Regional High School took fifth place of fifteen medium schools in the region.[8][9]