Archive for the ‘Math contest’ Category
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
I received an email today from a young person asking for me to link to a Math Contest resource web-site. Being a lover of Math contests myself and recognizing the value of the site, I am delighted to not just provide a link but to write this blog post about ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
We have a winner for MMM #5 and a new contest to be announced Monday at Blinkdagger.
We received 24 entries, one came after the deadline, so only the 23 that met the deadline were considered. All solutions were correct and well explained. Random.org picked the winner.
Congratulations, Janet! You win the ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Wow! We're on our fifth contest already! Time flies.
For this contest we have a new prize: The Art of Problem Solving folks have donated several $25 gift certificates that can be used in their bookstore. These folks do an outstanding job of challenging and inspiring kids to learn Math. Check ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
Blinkdagger has announced two winners! They got 103 submissions and gave away two prizes!
Stay tuned to Wild About Math! for a new contest Monday. If I get more than 50 submissions I'll give away two prizes as well! This new prize is one Math lovers will appreciate. Check back here ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
On Monday I'll be hosting the next Monday Math Madness contest. The current contest, hosted at Blinkdagger, got a whopping 103 submissions but only 37 of these were correct. So, this problem ended up being trickier than expected. Blinkdagger should be announcing their winner soon and on Monday I've got ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Check out Blinkdagger.
These guys had way too much fun writing up this problem. One of the things we do when we come up with these contest problems is that, when we don't make them up ourselves, we rewrite them so a Google search won't yield the answer. Quan and Daniel ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
We have a winner for the third Monday Math Madness contest. It's Johan Potums. Congratulations, Johan! I'll be contacting you about your prize.
Blinkdagger has a very interesting new contest problem that they'll be posting Monday.
Seventeen people submitted entries. Everyone got the right answer and explained their answer well. Everyone realized ...
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
I ran into the following problem in a contest problem book. I won't reveal the source until later. I was not able to solve this problem and even though the solution is in the back of the book so I know how to solve it now, I'd like to see ...
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
If you've not gotten your entry in for contest #3 you've only got through Monday night to do so. We've only gotten 10 correct submissions for this contest so far, so your chances of winning the prize are better than they were for the last contest.
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
We've completed two Monday Math Madness contests. Last Friday Blinkdagger announced that Joshua Zucker, director at Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival, was randomly selected as the winner of the 2nd contest. Now it's my turn to post a contest problem. Those of you who are astute readers may have noticed that ...
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