Questions? Contact Barton Polot at polot@comcast.net or Duncan Polot at dpolot@comcast.net
Certainty problems
Clock problems
Review the Strategies
Spring Challenge
Homework assignment: none
Thank you all for your great effort all year long.
Cube puzzles
Handshake problems
Work Problems
Homework assignment (Due June 12)
Read Section 6.3
Complete questions 1 - 3
Read Section 3.5
Complete questions 1 - 3
Add-Across puzzles
Page 1
Page 2
Review Spring Proficiency Exam
Typsetter
Homework assignment (Due June 5)
Read Section 6.2
Complete questions 1 - 3
Puzzle: Mixed Operations
Motion
Spring Proficiency Exam
Homework assignment (Due May 22)
Read Section 6.1
Complete questions 1-3
Important message:
We are using this week's exam as a determinant for participation and achievement in this semester's class.
You must complete this exam to be considered for recognition in the June 12 AAMOC awards ceremony.
So, if you were absent on May 15, please download the Proficiency exam and email your answers by Tuesday 18 May.
Strategy 11: Change your point of view
Geometry: Area
Area of circles
Area of rectangles
Homework assignment (Due May 15)
Read Section 5.6
Complete questions 1 and 3
Read Section 5.7
Complete questions 1 and 2
Next week: Exam on Geometry (Chapter 5)
Duncan's Card Trick: explained
Duncan's Favorite Number: 142857
Pi
Pi = 3.142857
Area and Circumference of circle
Homework assignment (Due May 8)
Read Section 5.5
Complete questions 1 - 5
Strategy 10: Experimenting
Duncan's Card Trick
Geometry: Perimeter
Homework assignment (Due May 1)
Read Chapter 5.4
Complete questions 1 - 5
Puzzle: Finding Where to Start
Puzzle 1
Puzzle 2
Puzzle 3
Spring Midterm 1: answers reviewed
Geometry: Circles
Homework assignment (Due April 24)
Read Chapter 5.3
Complete questions 1 - 6
Puzzle: Cover All Possibilites
Puzzle 1
Puzzle 2
Geometry Review: Squares and Rectangles
Geometry: Triangles
Homework assignment (Due April 17)
Read Chapter 5.1
Complete questions 1 and 2
Read Chapter 5.2
Complete questions 1 and 2
Spring Midterm 1
Students who were absent should download the Midterm Exam and email the answers by April 10
Enjoy your spring break. See you April 17
Math Olympiad Tic-Tac-Toe
Algebra, continued
Answers to Algebra 3 and Algebra 4 here
Strategy 9: Deduction
Geometry: Squares and Rectangles
Homework: review fractions and algebra for next week's Midterm Exam
Review MOEMS-5 answers
Algebra, continued
Download: Algebra Worksheet 3
Fractions: continued
Homework assignment (due March 20)
Read Chapter 4.4
Complete questions 1-6
Algebra, continued
Download: Algebra Worksheet 2
Fractions: continued
Homework assignment (due March 13)
Read Chapter 4.3
Complete questions 1-3
MOEMS-5
Anagram Names
Here is a website that will create anagrams for you!
"What Comes Before...?"
Strategy 8: Solve an Equation
Introduction to Algebra
Download: Algebra Worksheet 1
Fractions: Heart Arithmetic
Homework assignment (due March 6)
Read Chapter 4.2
Complete questions 1-6
Enjoy the break. See you on March 6
Begin Spring Semester
Review Fall Final Exam
Homework assignment (due February 13): Review Divisibility
Page 69, question 1
Page 71, question 1
Page 74, questions 1 and 2
Page 76, question 1
Create an anagram of your name
example: BARTON LEE POLOT = BALLOON TREETOP
example: DUNCAN POLOT = COULD NOT NAP
MOEMS-4
Divisibility by 7, 11, 13
Divisibility by 12
Homework assignment: none
End of Semester Exam
Students absent on January 30:
please download the End-of-Semester exam
Complete the exam and email the answers by February 4
This concludes the Fall Semester of AAMOC Level 1. We hope you register for the Spring 2010 Semester.
MOEMS-2: Review Answers
MOEMS-3: Review Answers
End-of-Term Challenge
Homework assignment: none
Welcome back
Strategy 7: Work Backwards
Divisibility by 11
Homework assignment (Due January 23)
Read Chapter 3.5
Complete questions 1-3
MOEMS Test 3
No class on January 16 (weekend of Martin Luthor King day). See you January 23
Holiday Questions
Divisibility by 3, by 9, by 6
MOEMS-2
Homework assignment: none
Have a wonderful holiday break. See you January 9, 2010 (MOEMS-3)
Strategy 6: Trial and Error
Midterm Exam 2: returned and reviewed
Four 4's
Divisibility by 2, 5, 10 and 100
Homework assignment: none
MOEM Exam 2 next week
MOEMS-1: Review answers
Divisibility by 7
Divisibility principle for sums and differences
Midtern Test 2
Students who were absent on November 21 should download the exam and email the answers by December 1
Homework assignment (due December 5):
Read Section C 3.2
Complete questions 1 - 4
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving break. See you December 5
Introduction to KenKen
Divisibility by 2, 5, 10 and 100
Homework assignment (due November 21):
Read Section C 3.1
Complete questions 1 - 4
MOEMS Exam 1
Strategy 5: Solve a simpler problem
Topic: Least Common Multiple
Homework assignment (due November 14)
Read Section C 2.4
Complete questions 1 - 4
Next week: MOEMS exam 1
Strategy 4: Make a Table
Choosing a strategy
Topic: Greatest Common Factor
Homework assignment (due November 7)
Read Section C 2.3
Complete questions 1 - 4
Reviewing the answers to Midterm Test 1
Topics: Prime Numbers, Prime Factors
Homework assignment (due October 31)
Read Section C 2.2
Complete questions 1 - 6
Bonus question: calculate the prime factors of your telephone number
for example, my telephone number = 21 x 53 x 471 x 6311 = 7,414,250
Midterm Test 1
Topic: Factors
Homework assignment (due October 24)
Read Section C 2.1
Complete questions 1 - 4
Students who were absent on October 17 should take the Midterm Test 1 online and submit answers via email by Thursday 22 October
Strategy 3: Make an organized list
Topic: Patterns and Sums
Homework assignment (due October 17)
Read Section C 1.5
Complete questions 1 - 6
Students who have not yet purchased the textbook may download this file
Strategy 1: Draw a Picture (review)
Strategy 2: Find a Pattern
Topic: Unusual Patterns
Homework assignment (due October 10)
Read Section C 1.4
Complete questions 3, 4, 5 and 6
Students who have not yet purchased the textbook may download this file
We have skipped section C 1.3 -- but we will pick it up later this month
Strategy 1: Draw a Picture
Topic: Multiplication Patterns
Homework assignment (due October 3)
Read Section C 1.2
Complete questions 2 - 4 (page 43)
Students who have not yet purchased the textbook may download this file
Welcome to Ann Arbor Math Olympiad Cooperative
Topic: Addition Patterns
Homework assignment (due September 26)
Read Section C 1.1 (pages 38-40)
Complete questions 3 - 6
Students without the textbook may download the assignment
SCHEDULE: Spring 2010
Feb 6: MOEMS-4
Feb 13
Feb 20
Feb 27
March 6: MOEMS-5
March 13
March 20
March 27: Midterm Exam
April 3
April 10
April 17
April 24
May 1
May 8
May 15: Exam
May 22
May 29
June 5
June 12: Last Class
June 12: Awards Ceremony
SCHEDULE: Fall 2009
Sept 19
Sept 26
Oct 3
Oct 10
Oct 17: Midterm 1
Oct 24
Oct 31
Nov 7
Nov 14: MOEM-1
Nov 21: Midterm 2
Nov 28
Dec 5
Dec 12: MOEM-2
Dec 19
Dec 26
Jan 2
Jan 9: MOEM-3
Jan 16
Jan 23
Jan 30: Final Exam
THE STRATEGIES
Draw a Picture
Find a Pattern
Make an Organized List
Make a Table
Solve a Simpler Problem
Trial and Error
Work Backwards
Solve an Equation
Deduction
Experimentation
Change Your Point of View