Beautiful Young Minds 1/6

A new documentary, Beautiful Young Minds, looks like a British version of the excellent Hard Problems.  

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April 4th – LaTeX and Proof Writing Workshop

The math skills learned in our math circles have been helpful to students hoping to improve their scores on the AMC tests or the AIME.  But to be successful in olympiads or to answer the questions from USAMTS or AOPS requires that students can also articulate their problem solving in the form of proofs. A [...]

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Shopping for Problem Solvers

With the holidays approaching many of you may be looking for gift ideas for young problem solvers.  A good place to start is the excellent Bookstore run by The Art of Problem Solving. Among the many excellent resources are two that have been featured on this site that might make particularly good gifts.  The DVD [...]

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MEANT Math Contest November 15th

The Malayalee Engineers Association of North Texas is sponsoring a math contest.  To support this initiative, Metroplex Math Circle will suspend its normal November 15th meeting allowing more students to participate. When MEANT last held a contest one of their winners was a young Zach Abel.  Zach went on to great success at the USAMO [...]

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2006 IMO Problems Day 2

This is the continuation of the interviews with the 2006 US IMO team. The first speaker, is ZEB Brady. ZEB spent part of his summer at UT Dallas working at Dr. Andreescu’s prestigious summer camp, AwesomeMath. ZEB was a gold medalist at the 2006 IMO. These particular problems are much harder than the level normally [...]

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2006 IMO Problems Day 1

This video gives some insight into the thought process of Olympiad problem solvers. The first speaker, Dr. Zuming Feng, is a good friend of the Metroplex Math Circle and is a regular speaker. Zach Abel, the first student speaker, is a Dallas native and an alumnus of Greenhill School. These particular problems are much harder [...]

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