Week 14: June 12

• • Certainty problems

  • Clock problems

  • Review the Strategies

  • Spring Challenge

  • Homework assignment: none

Thank you all for your great effort all year long.

Week 13: June 5

• • 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

Week 12: May 22

• • 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

Week 11: May 15

• • 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.

Week 10: May 8

• • 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)

Week 9: May 1

• • 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

Week 8: April 24

• • Strategy 10: Experimenting

  • Duncan's Card Trick

  • Geometry: Perimeter

  • Homework assignment (Due May 1)

    • • Read Chapter 5.4

      • Complete questions 1 - 5

Week 7: April 17

• • 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

Week 6: March 27

• • 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

Week 5: March 20

• • 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

Week 4: March 13

• • 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

Week 3: March 6

• • Algebra, continued

    • • Download: Algebra Worksheet 2

  • Fractions: continued

  • Homework assignment (due March 13)

    • • Read Chapter 4.3

      • Complete questions 1-3

  • MOEMS-5

Week 2: February 13

• • 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

Week 1: February 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

Week 16: January 30

• • 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.

Week 15: January 23

• • MOEMS-2: Review Answers

  • MOEMS-3: Review Answers

  • End-of-Term Challenge

  • Homework assignment: none

Week 14: January 9

• • 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

Week 12: December 12

• • 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)

Week 11: December 5

• • 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

Week 10: November 21

• • 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

Week 9: November 14

• • 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

Week 8: November 7

• • 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

Week 7: October 31

• • 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

Week 6: October 24

• • 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

Week 5: October 17

• • 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

Week 4: October 10

• • 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

Week 3: October 3

• • 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

Week 2: September 26

• • 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

Week 1: September 19

• • 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