For Young Mathletes : Beginning Level Week Two
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View ArticleThis Week's Work : Week 30 - for Inquisitive Young Mathletes
Interesting articles on math for this week: How to Fall in Love With Math by Manil Suri from the New York TimesThe Simpsons' secret formula : it's written by math geeks by Simon Singh from the Guardian...
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2013 Mathcounts State Prep : Folding Paper Questions
Folding paper questions are not too bad so here are two examples: Question #1: The two side lengths of rectangle ABCD is "a" and "b". If you fold along EF and the point B now converges on point D,...
View ArticleTricky Algebra Mathcounts National Questions: Counting Backwards
Check out Mathcounts here, the best competition math program for middle school students. Download this year's Mathcounts handbook here.#24 1993 National Sprint: Bottle A contains more Diet Coke than...
View ArticleThis Week's Work : Week 31 - for Inquisitive Young Mathletes
Part I work :Review: 2010 AMC-8 # 25What about if John can only take 1 or 2 stairs at a time and now there are 10 stairs ? Make sure you know how to solve this as well. 2010 AMC-8 #23At least 2 ways :...
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This Week's Work : Week 32 - for Inquisitive Young Mathletes
Part I work : Review factors from my blogReview the problems that we'd discussed at our lesson. 93 AMC-8 #24 Nishant C: Notice that the last numbers in each row is a square and you can go from there....
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2013 Mathcounts State Prep: Concept Review : Factors
Check out Mathcounts here, the best competition math program for middle school students. Download this year's Mathcounts handbook here.Basics: To find how many factors a number has, make sure to prime...
View ArticleThis Week's Work : Week 33 - for Inquisitive Young Mathletes
Part I work :2013 Mathcounts chapter problemsReview 2013 Mathcounts chapter harder problems here.You'll make faster progress if you slow down and really understand just a few problems. No kidding...
View ArticleThis Week's Work : Week 34 - for Inquisitive Young Mathletes
This week's work : Review the harder/hardest AMC-8 questions from previous years.Review similar triangles and dimensional change conceptsReview sticks and stones, balls and urns, counting and...
View ArticleCounting I : Ways to Avoid Over Counting or Under Counting
Check out Mathcounts here, the best competition math program for middle school students. Download this year's Mathcounts handbook here.Question #1: How many ways to count a triple of natural numbers...
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This Week's Work : Week 35 - for Inquisitive Young Mathletes
This week's work : Review AMC-8 harder/hardest problems II that I sent out to you though e-mail. Try at least twice before you read the detailed solutions. Self studies for this week : Circle and area...
View ArticleThis Week's Work : Week 36 - for Inquisitive Young Mathletes
This week, focus on your weakness and keep reviewing the harder/hardest conceptsfrom past many weeks' links and notes. http://mathcountsnotes.blogspot.com/search/label/this%20week%27s%20workRead the...
View ArticleMathcounts minis that are harder/hardest AMC-8 level
Below are Mathcounts Minis for harder/the hardest AMC-8 problems.I don't believe in cramming so no homework for this week.However, if you can't have enough math and science, watch NOVA making more...
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Harder Mathcounts State Question
2012 Mathcounts State Sprint #30: In rectangle ABCD, shown here, point M is the midpoint of side BC, and point N lies on CD such that DN:NC = 1:4. Segment BN intersects AM and AC at points R and S,...
View ArticleThis Week's Work : Week 37 - for Inquisitive Young Mathletes
Part I work :Try the three problems on similar triangles (It will be sent through e-mail).We discussed the first 2 cases so see if you can figure out the third one. Also, review similar triangles I...
View ArticleMass Points Geometry
Some of the harder/hardest questions at Mathcounts can be tackled at ease using mass point geometryso spend some time understanding it. From WikipediaFrom AoPSMass Point Geometry by Tom RikeMass Points...
View Article2013 AMC-8 Problems, Answer Key, Detailed Solutions and Results Statistics
This year's (2013) AMC-8 results can be viewed here. (updated nightly)2013 AMC-8 problems in pdf format (easier to print out and work on it as a real test)Try this if your school doesn't offer AMC-8...
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This Week's Work : Week 38 - for Inquisitive Young Mathletes
Detailed solutions of 04-05 Mathcounts handbook warm-up 13 to 15 will be sent out through e-mail. Please review the problems you couldn't get at first or that took you too long to solve. Questions:...
View ArticleMathcounts Competition Preparation Strategies
It's the Mathcounts season !!(Ask your local high school if you can participate in the AMC-10 test if you are already working on some Mathcounts state/national problems.)E-mail or write your inquiries...
View ArticleThis Week's Work : Week 39 - for Inquisitive Young Mathletes
If your school's Mathcounts team is highly competitive, focus your attention on the prep at your school, but do let me know what type (s) of questions you need more practices so we can target those and...
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