Some Articles to Read and Ponder after Mathcounts Chapter Competition
For those students who really love problem solving, who care and are inquisitive but are disappointed at their chapter's performance, I want to let you know that it's an honor meeting you online and...
View Article2014 Mathcounts State Prep: Problems that Use Pascal's Triangle
#32004 Mathcounts State Team:Coin A is tossed three times and coin B is tossed two times. What is the probability that more heads are tossed using coin A than using coin B? Express your answer as a...
View Article2014 AMC-10/12 Problems, Answer Key, Detailed Solutions and Results Statistics
For the next round of math competition for high school students, use this link.Since this blog is mainly for Mathcounts prep, the following suggestions are for students who are going to the Mathcounts...
View Article2014 Mathcounts State/National Prep
Mathcounts Mini #40 - Sum and Average of An Evenly Spaced of IntegersFor younger mathletes, watch till 3:32.For Mathcounts state/national prep, start with 3:32 the second part explains how to solve...
View ArticleThis Week's Work : Week 42 - for Inquisitive Young Mathletes
For those who are not advancing to Mathcounts state, here is this week's work :From Mathcounts Mini #11 : Tangent Segments and Similar TrianglesDownload the activity sheet from the same site or here is...
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2012 Harder Mathcounts State Target Questions
Check outMathcounts here -- the best competition math program for middle schoolers up to the state and national level. # 6: A semicircle and a circle are placed inside a square with sides of length 4...
View ArticleThis Week's Work : Week 43 - for Inquisitive Young Mathletes
From Mathcounts Mini : Using Similarity to Solve Geometry ProblemsAlso try the warm-up, retry the problems in the video on your own and spend some timepondering on those follow-up, harder problems. #4,...
View ArticleThis Week's Work : Week 44 - for Inquisitive Young Mathletes
From Mathcounts Mini : More Constructive CountingAlso try the warm-up, retry the problems in the video on your own and spend some timepondering on those follow-up, harder problems. #7 and 9 are more...
View Article2014 AIME II Math Jam Meet at AoPS
Math Jam from AoPS for 2014 AIME II -- Date and Time : Mar. 28th, 7 pm EST
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Mathcounts Prep -- Number Sense
Check out Mathcounts: the best competition math program up to the national level.Problems: (Solutions below)#1: 2005 Chapter Team-- A standard deck of playing cards with 26 red cards and 26 black cards...
View ArticleThis Week's Work : Week 45 - for Inquisitive Young Mathletes
From Mathcounts Mini : More Constructive CountingSee if you can use "sticks and stones" to solve the following questions (it requires a little twist).Tossing 3 dice, what is the probability that the...
View ArticleThis Week's Work : Week 46 - for Inquisitive Young Mathletes
Finally, this year's Mathcounts state problems are clear for discussions. Check that out here !! We'll talk about those harder problems this week at our group lessons. Please let me know how you...
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Solutions to 2014 Harder Mathcounts State Target question
Finally, this year's Mathcounts state are clear for discussions. You can download this year's Mathcounts state problems here at the official Mathcounts.org site. Links, notes, Hints or/and solutions...
View ArticleThis Week's Work : Week 47 - for Inquisitive Young Mathletes
This week, we'll continue discussing this year's Mathcounts state harder problems. Please try these problems before our lesson. Review sprint round questions we went over at last Sunday's lesson,...
View ArticleThis Week's Work : Week 48 - for Inquisitive Young Mathletes
Tackling Problems with Vieta Section 10.4: Vieta for Quadratics Part 1Section 10.4: Vieta for Quadratics Part 2Section 10.4: Tackling Problems with VietaPracticing Problems using Vieta's formulaReview...
View ArticleThis Week's Work : Week 49 - for Inquisitive Young Mathletes
Simon's Favorite Factoring Trick from AoPSNotes from my blogNow try this year's team round #9 using SFFT.Review all the team round questions. From Mathcounts Mini : Maximum Areas of Inscribed...
View ArticleMathcounts Prep : Algebra Manipulation
Note that: \(\left( x+y\right) ^{2}-2xy= x^{2}+y^{2}\)\(\left( x-y\right) ^{2}+2xy= x^{2}+y^{2}\)\(\left(x-y\right) ^{3}+3xy\left( x-y\right) =x^{3}-y^{3}\)\(\left( x+y\right) ^{3}-3xy\left( x+y\right)...
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Mathcounts : Geometry -- Medians ; Squares in Isosceles Triangle, Similar...
Check out Mathcounts here, the best competition math program for middle school students. Download this year's Mathcounts handbook here.This one appears at 91 Mathcounts National Target #4. It's...
View ArticleThis Week's Work : Week 50 - for Inquisitive Young Mathletes
Counting Restrictions from GlyiaVery nice introductory level counting questions with restrictions. from Mathcounts Mini : Counting the Number of Subsets of a Set from AoPS : Counting with Restrictions...
View ArticleThis Week's Work : Week 51 for Inquisitive Young Mathletes
For this week's work :Try 2013 Mathworks Math Contest problems from Texas State UniversityAnswer key and statistics can be viewed here. I'll send you detailed solutions once we finish all the...
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