Adv. Math Problem Solving Club, 2021-22

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Room: ESS131
Time: Sunday 1:00PM - 2:30PM
Grades: 9-12
Prerequisites:
Material fee: 0.00

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Description: Advanced Math Problem-solving club is open for any student from SchoolNova and from the local community. Participation in the club is free of charge, we only collect a small material fee. AMP club prepares for AMC 8 and AMC 10/12.

In the club, we will be solving olympiad-type problems and other challenging and fun problems that go beyond the usual syllabus of school mathematics.

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Homeworks

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• Assigned on 09/26: Assignment 1: Welcome and misc problems  |  
  
• Assigned on 10/3: Assignment 2: Continued fractions  |  
  
• Assigned on 10/17: Assignment 3: Pigeonhole principle  |  
  
• Assigned on 10/24: Assignment 4: Inequalities  |  
  
• Assigned on 10/31: Assignment 5: Inequalities continued  |  
  
• Assigned on 11/7: Assignment 6: Math games  |  
  
• Assigned on 11/14:
  No new assignment today
  
• Assigned on 11/21:
  Today we discussed some of the problems from AMC12B. You can find the problems here: https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2021_Fall_AMC_12B (coming soon) In particular, take a look at problems 18, 19, 21, 23, 25
  
• Assigned on 12/5: Assignment 7: Invariants  |  
  
• Assigned on 12/12: Assignment 8: Conway soldiers and other games  |  
  
• Assigned on 12/19: Assignment 9: Math battle  |  
  
• Assigned on 01/9: Assignment 10: Probability and expected value  |  
  
• Assigned on 01/16: Assignment 11: Geometric probability  |  
  
• Assigned on 01/23: Assignment 12: Two tricky probability problems  |  
  
• Assigned on 01/30: Assignment 13: Topology and winding number  |  
  
• Assigned on 02/6: Assignment 14: Weighing and guessing  |  
  
• Assigned on 02/13:
  No new assignment this week.
  
• Assigned on 02/27: Class 15: Math battle!  |  
  
• Assigned on 03/6: Class 16: Sequences and finite differences  |  
  
• Assigned on 03/13: Class 17: Recurrent sequences  |  
  
• Assigned on 03/20: Class 18: Recurrent sequences continued  |  
  
• Assigned on 03/27: Class 19: Polynomials and Vieta formulas  |  
  
• Assigned on 04/3: Class 20: Symmetric polynomials  |  
  
• Assigned on 04/10:
  Today we tried solving problems from a "Tournament of Towns" competition O-level, spring 2021
  
• Assigned on 04/24: Class 22: Combinatorics  |  
  
• Assigned on 05/1: Assignment 23: Combinatorics of Catalan numbers  |