For those students who really love problem solving, who care and are inquisitive but are disappointed at their chapter's/state's performance, I want to let you know that it's an honor meeting you online and learning from/along with you.
I know no matter how sincere I write here, it won't help much, so I'll just shut up.
However, I'm also disappointed at some students who said they need to take a break for the foreseeable future.
Well, if you love ___ (fill in the blank), you won't stop if you don't get to the chapter/state/nationals.
So there...
Here are some articles that after your taking a break from problem solving (I hope it's not too long), hope to see you come back and read them. Best of luck !! Keep me posted !!
Pros and Cons of Math Competitions
Dealing with Hard Problems
Life After Mathcounts
Great Mathematicians on Math Competitions and "Genius"
Math Contests Kind of Suck from Mathbabe
TEDxCaltech -Jordan Theriot- The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Why Physics? Skateboarding Physicist and Educator Dr. Yung Tae Kim
Richard Feyman --The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Hope it helps !!
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Monday, January 26, 2015
2015 Mathcounts State/National Prep
Harder concepts from Mathcounts Mini :
Also try the follow-up problems with detailed solutions. Don't do every question. Just the ones you think is hard.
Geometry :
#27 : Area and Volume
#30: Similar Triangles and Proportional Reasoning
#34: Circles and Right Triangles
#35: Using Similarity to Solve Geometry Problems
#41: Analytic Geometry : Center of Rotation
More questions to practice from my blog post.
From Mathcounts Mini : Video tutorials on counting and probability for Mathcounts state/national prep concepts are in the of difficulty.
Counting the Number of Subsets of a Set
Constructive Counting
More Constructive Counting
Probability and Counting
Probability with Geometry Representations : Oh dear, the second half part is hilarious.
Probability with Geometry Representations : solution to the second half problem from previous video
Try this one from 1998 AIME #9. It's not too bad.
From Mathcounts Mink : Center of rotation, equal distance from a point to other two points or two lines, angle bisector (last problem on the follow-up worksheet)
Mathcounts Mini : #41 - Analytic Geometry
Also try the follow-up problems with detailed solutions. Don't do every question. Just the ones you think is hard.
Geometry :
#27 : Area and Volume
#30: Similar Triangles and Proportional Reasoning
#34: Circles and Right Triangles
#35: Using Similarity to Solve Geometry Problems
#41: Analytic Geometry : Center of Rotation
More questions to practice from my blog post.
From Mathcounts Mini : Video tutorials on counting and probability for Mathcounts state/national prep concepts are in the of difficulty.
Counting the Number of Subsets of a Set
Constructive Counting
More Constructive Counting
Probability and Counting
Probability with Geometry Representations : Oh dear, the second half part is hilarious.
Probability with Geometry Representations : solution to the second half problem from previous video
Try this one from 1998 AIME #9. It's not too bad.
From Mathcounts Mink : Center of rotation, equal distance from a point to other two points or two lines, angle bisector (last problem on the follow-up worksheet)
Mathcounts Mini : #41 - Analytic Geometry
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