March 3, 2012 – Dr. Titu Andreescu – “More Contest Problems”

With the AMC 10 and 12 contests behind us, some students will be preparing for the AIME while many will be working hard to improve their scores next year.  Both groups will not want to miss Dr. Titu Andreescu this weekend as he presents more of his favorite problems and solutions. Titu Andreescu received his Ph.D. [...]

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February 11, 2012 – Krassimir Penev – “Nonstandard Geometric Problems”

Bulgarian Olympiad winner, Krassimir Penev will consider a variety of problem-solving techniques and important facts used for solving nonstandard geometric problems. The examples include but are not limited to the Nine Point Circle, Euler’s line, Ceva’s Theorem and cyclic quadrilaterals.  These mathematical tools could be used for math competitions such as the AMC10,12, AIME, USAMO and Intel talent search.   [...]

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February 4, 2012 – Dr. Titu Andreescu – AMC Preparation

The American Mathematics Contest (AMC) is an extremely important contest for any students interested in pursuing a STEM education and career.  Many of the elite universities use AMC scores to sort out the many applicants who easily achieve 800 SAT math scores. Our Metroplex Math Circle students are particularly fortunate to have access to Dr. [...]

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March 12 – Dr. Andreescu – AIME is Practically Here!

OK, by popular demand following his March 5th AIME training session, Dr. Andreescu will return as next week’s speaker to continue training our students for AIME.  Whether you qualified this year or hope to in the future, do not miss this opportunity to train with the former Director of AMC and coach of the US [...]

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March 5 – Dr. Andreescu – AIME is Coming up Soon!

Whether you are one of the Math Circle attendees who just qualified for the AIME or hope to some day, you do not want to miss a lecture by our own Dr. Titu Andreescu which will increase your odds of success on this prestigious test and potentially the chance to sit for the USAMO. Elite [...]

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Dr. Grantcharov Recap

We were very pleased to have our neighbor, Dr. Dimitar Grantcharov deliver the lecture this past Saturday.  He focused his talk around some engaging and deep problems from his last contest at UT Arlington: UTA 2010 Competition Problems. The students enjoyed solving each problem and then exploring greater depth and generalizations beyond their solutions.  This was [...]

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January 22 – Dr. Dimitar Grantcharov – Interesting AMC and AIME Problems

Metroplex Math Circle will kick off its spring 2011 semester with a presentation by Dr. Dimitar Grantcharov.    Dr. Grantcharov is an assistant professor at UT Arlington and the director of our neighbor, the Mid Cities Math Circle.  Dr. Grantcharov will use problems from last year’s UT Arlington Math Competition to help prepare our students [...]

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USAMO Qualifiers

AMC recently announced the students invited to sit for the USA Mathematical Olympiad.  This is a tremendous accomplishment following exemplary performance on the AMC 10 or 12 and a high score on the AIME.  The qualifiers from Texas are: Every student representing Texas at the USAMO deserves to be very proud.  However, Metroplex Math Circle [...]

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AMC 10/12B Honor Roll

Dr. Andreescu once again offered UT Dallas as a higher education site for this year’s AMC 10/12B.  We were very proud of all of the Metroplex Math Circle participates who took the test.  Following are the students who scored above 100 points (out of 120) on the AMC 10 and above 90 points on the [...]

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March 14th – Titu Andreescu – AIME Preparation

Dr. Titu Andreescu, former director of AMC and coach of the US IMO team will be giving a special lecture for those preparing for the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME).   This will be a very challenging session befitting the caliber of the AIME examination.  However, students who did not qualify this year but are working [...]

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