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Contests
The following is a list of a few of the contests that are available to middle school and high school students. Your school may offer some of these contests, and a few of the contests will be offered at the Marin Math Circle.
| Contest |
Date |
Age Group |
USAMTS
Four sets of take home problems |
October - March |
Middle School and High School |
| American Mathematics Competitions (AMC) |
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
February 8 and February 23, 2011 |
Middle School (AMC 8)
High School (AMC 10 and 12) |
| Bay Area Math Olympiad |
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
offered at the Marin Math Circle |
Middle School (BAMO 8 or 12)
High School (BAMO 12) |
| Mathletes |
November - March |
7th and 8th grade |
| Mathcounts |
February |
Middle School |
Summer Programs in Math for Middle and High School Students
- Stanford Unviersity Educational Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) holds two-week residential sessions for middle school students in math and other subjects and three and four-week sessions for high school students. Year round distance learning programs are also available.
- SUMAC (Stanford) is a four-week residential summer camp "designed for high school students who will be juniors and seniors in the fall, who have exceptional interest and ability in mathematics."
- Mathpath is "... a four-week residential summer camp for students [ages 11-14] showing high promise and interest in mathematics to extend their knowledge and skills in mathematics and to immerse them in the mathematical culture." Location varies.
- Canada/USA Mathcamp is "... an intensive 5-week-long summer program for mathematically talented high school students, designed to expose these students to the beauty of advanced mathematical ideas and to new ways of thinking." Location varies.
- Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics is a six-week residential camp for mathematically talented high school students. The program includes "in-depth studies of particular problems and fields" with "an emphasis on unifying themes, recurrent patterns, and fruitful modes of inquiry."
- Awesome Math is a three-week residential summer camp for mathematically gifted sutdents who wish to hone their problem solving skills, further their mathematics eduation, and improve their performance on contests. It is held at the University of Texas at Dallas and at the University of California at Santa Cruz and is open to middle and high school students.
- Math Zoom has two- and three-week residential summer camps at Harvey Mudd College and at the University of North Carolina - Charlotte, geared towards preparing students for math contests. It is open to middle and high school students.
- Camp Euclid is "a local/online, innovative, mathematics research camp for high school students ... in which participants will encounter and grapple with unsolved math problems. Camp students will collaborate within a circle of fellow researchers a few hours per week over the course of three (over the summer) or four months (during the school year)."
- More summer camps are listed here
Other Bay Area Math Circles
Books
- Mathematical Circles: Russian Experience, by Dmitri Fomin, Sergey Genkin, and Ilia V. Itenberg
- A Decade of the Berkeley Math Circle: The American Experience, edited by Zvezdelina Stankova and Tom Rike
- The Art and Craft of Problem Solving, by Paul Zeitz - a past speaker at the Marin Math Circle
- The Art of Problem Solving, by Sandor Lehoczky and Richard Rusczyk
- Kiselev's Geometry by A.P. Kiselev, adapted by Alexander Givental
- Intriguing Mathematical Problems, by Oswald Jacoby and William Benson
- Mathematical Puzzles: A Connoisseur's Collection, by Peter Winkler
- Mathematical Mind-Benders, by Peter Winkler
- My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles, by Martin Gardner
- The Magic of Numbers, by Benedict Gross
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