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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September 24, 2011 – Joshua Nichols-Barrer – “Modular Arithmetic in Contest Mathematics”

We look forward to seeing old and new friends today at the September 17  session of Metroplex Math Circle.  Next week we look forward to a lecture from Joshua Nichols-Barrer.   Dr. Nichols-Barrer earned his PhD at MIT and is the AwesomeMath Academic Director, a two time IMO silver medalist and a multiple winner of [...]

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2011 IMO Team Results

Here are the top 10 teams from the 52nd IMO: People’s Republic of China United States of America Singapore Russian Federation Thailand Turkey Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Taiwan Romania Islamic Republic of Iran

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2011 IMO Results

The results are in from the 2011 IMO in Amsterdam. Lisa Sauermann, of Germany, returned for a 5th time to win her 5th medal and 4th gold with a perfect score! Singapore was extremely well represented with 3 of their participants in the top 10 Team USA had some outstanding performances with every member winning [...]

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Minipolymath3 project: 2011 IMO (via The polymath blog)

Terence Tao used question number 2 from the 2011 IMO to test the group problem solving on the Polymath blog. This post marks the official opening of the mini-polymath3 project to solve a problem from the 2011 IMO.  I have decided to use Q2, in part to see how the polymath format would cope with a [...]

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2011 IMO – Day 2 Video

Here is a quick video synopsis of the second day of the IMO in Amsterdam:

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2011 IMO – Day 1 Video

Here is a video report on the first day of the IMO in Amsterdam:

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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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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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October 23 – Dr. Andreescu, AMC 8 Preparation

Dr. Titu Andreescu will give the lecture himself next week and focus on helping the students prepare for the upcoming AMC 8 test.  I’ll describe the importance of the AMC 8 below, but even students too old to take this particular test (over 8th grade) will find a great deal of value in this lecture [...]

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