2009 USAMO Highest Ranking Individuals

AMC just announced the highest ranking individuals from the 2009 USAMO:

John Berman	John T. Hoggard High School	Wilmington	NC
Sergei Bernstein	Belmont High School	Belmont	MA
Wenyu Cao	Phillips Academy	Andover	MA
Robin Cheng	Pinetree Secondary School	Coquitlam	BC
Vlad Firoiu	Westford Academy	Westford	MA
Eric Larson	South Eugene High School	Eugene	OR
Delong Meng	Baton Rouge Magnet High School	Baton Rouge	LA
Qinxuan Pan	Thomas S. Wootton High School	Rockville	MD
Panupong Pasupat	Deerfield Academy	Deerfield	MA
Toan Phan	Taft School	Watertown	CT
David Rush	Phillips Exeter Academy	Exeter	NH
David Yang	Homeschool	Walnut	CA

All of these students deserve congratulations.   Its particularly nice to see the achievements of 7th grader,  David Yang.  David was a student of Dr. Andreescu’s AwesomeMath camp last year and was also in the final rounds of the 2009 MATHCOUNTS national competion.

2009 MATHCOUNTS Countdown Round

Watch the Countdown Round LIVE!

The 2009 Raytheon MATHCOUNTS National Competition Countdown Round will air live,  on mathcounts.org! Tune in at 2:00 PM EDT on Friday, May 8th to watch as top Mathletes® vie for the title of 2009 MATHCOUNTS National Champion.

2008 AMC 8 Perfect Scores

Perfect Scores (25 out of 25) for the 2008 AMC 8 were posted this week.  Texas had its share including the well represented schools in Sugar Land which also produce some of the strongest MATHCOUNTS teams.

Here is a list of the perfect scorers in Texas, congratulations to them all!

Steven Chen,  Spicewood Acad, Austin
Pradhith Konduri, Harmony Sch of Excl, Houston
Xinghua Dou, T H Rogers SS, Houston
Michael Marino, T H Rogers SS, Houston
Paul Miller, Atascocita MS, Humble
Richard Kim, St Paul Luth School, McAllen
Gene Hsu, First Colony MS, Sugar Land
Mitchell Hwang, First Colony MS, Sugar Land
Bobby Shen, First Colony MS, Sugar Land
Lilly Shen, First Colony MS, Sugar Land
Zachary Tu, Fort Settlement MS, Sugar Land
Benjamin Tu, Fort Settlement MS, Sugar Land
Haotian Wu, Fort Settlement MS, Sugar Land

MIT: Mathematics for Computer Science

One of the greatest enterprises on the Internet has been the posting of course materials by elite universities.  MIT’s Open Courseware (OCW) has been a leader in bringing the benefits of their unique curriculum to the world.

Getting a glimpse into introductory courses is critical because they often weed out those students who are unprepared to pursue studies and later careers in fields like Computer Science.  However, I am glad to say that many of our students who have been coming to Math Circle and participating in MATHCOUNTS or AMC tests will find many of the topics in this course very familiar.

Please click below to download some of the excellent lecture notes and tests.

Chengde Feng – Angles and Areas – Recap

Chengde Feng’s lecture was greeted with very high attendance and very active participation.  Throughout his lecture, Mr. Feng showed the students how to solve a wide variety of geometry problems involving area.  These are problems that frequently occur in contests like MATHCOUNTS or AMC.  Many shortcuts and techniques were shared to help shave off precious sections during these problem solving tests.

You knew you were at a Math Circle when in the second hour, Mr. Feng announced a “pop quiz” and instead of groans there was honest enthusiasm from the students eager to apply their new knowledge.

Mr. Feng has provided the problems from the lecture. Members of the Metroplex Math Circle e-mail group can download these files from the group site. To join the e-mail group simply click below.

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