Aops guy explains quite clearly

2009 is his earliest year, 2009 2010 2011 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019done

divided by year - he skipped the 2 hardest problems of 2019.

https://artofproblemsolving.com/videos/mathcounts

2013 v37 s2 target 3 wilma??

v38 team 5

v39 s9 team 10

v40 s4

https://www.mathcounts.org/sites/default/files/u1706/MinisAlgebraDec2013.pdf

v41 s11 s30

v42 s14 s22 team 2

v43 s17 s24

v45 s29 2013 inscribed rectangle inside a triangle has max area as half of triangle


2014

v46 s9 s8

v47 s12 t3

v48 s17 s22 t7

v49 s20 s24 s29

v50 s18 team 7

v51 s21 team 9

v52 team 4 repeat!!! s30

v53 s15 s27

v54 s23 team 10

2010

v10 s27 28

v11 team 10, target 8

v12 s17, 29

v13 target 2

v14 s20, team 4

v15 team 9

v16 team 8

v17 s13 team 5 s15

v18 s16 s18 target 6

2011

v19 team 1 s21 team6

v20 first 2 unknown; s30 square difference formula

v21 s10, counting parallograms

v22 s16 s17 team 8

v23 s15 target 6 s24

v24 octahedron? team 5

v25 s22, s26, team 10

v26 s29 team 9

v27 s28 target 8

2015

v55 s7 s8 s25

v56 s11 team 5

v57 s14 s20 target 3

v58 s16 s24

v59 s17 s22

v60 s26 s15

v61 s12 s23 target 4

v62 team 2 many circles, s30

v63 target 6, t8


2018

v82 s6 s24

v83 s10 s13

v84 target 4, s11 - clever idea - rotate the line to make trapezoid area equal to a rectangle area!

v85 s19 forward path counting/backward also works! just don't use complementary counting!

v86 s14

v87 s25

v88 s29 team 7

v89 target 8 s26

v90 s 21 target 6



2019

v91 s10 s13 s14

v92 s21 s24

v93 s5 s16

v94 s15 s22

v95 target 6


2009 2016 2017 done


2017 73 s8, 10

74 11 25

75 23 team 1

76 t2 team 9

77 s14 adjacent bricks, s21, team 3

78 s16 circle equation, s26,

79 s15 base, s17

80 s22 target 7

81 s28 s30


strategic guessing and checking


2009 2016 done


2016 state sprint 7 8 9 video 64

65= sprint 11 24 target 4 space diagonal of rectangular prism; Seeing Symmetry in Systems of Equations

66=sprint 6 18 20 geometry rectangles

67 sprint23 team 2 try out the numbers combinations

68 target 7 team 5

69 team 9 counting sprint 3

70 sprint17 target 1 sprint 28

71 sprint 26 team 7

2016 vid72 sprint 30 team 8; sprint 30 is 3D to 2D conversion problem!


be strategically lazy

get in there and do something


can't make website; videos are not good for learning math; get organized

acting out math;

divided by year - he skipped the 2 hardest problems of 2019.

https://artofproblemsolving.com/videos/mathcounts



30 https://youtu.be/UfxYpF7CYUs?list=PLF579ECF317F5DC48&t=837


cubing https://youtu.be/dG5jyGM2AV4?list=PLF579ECF317F5DC48&t=465

33 perfect square https://youtu.be/likQ5as2K7w?list=PLF579ECF317F5DC48

24 octhedron


34 silo

35 frustum https://youtu.be/FvNl3njneYE?list=PLF579ECF317F5DC48&t=660


43


44

https://youtu.be/9dFljwBK-aA?list=PLF579ECF317F5DC48


50 stacking cubes https://youtu.be/aNOLFe4g6AM?list=PLF579ECF317F5DC48

ants paths https://youtu.be/FSnpoU3jYZI?list=PLF579ECF317F5DC48

53 https://youtu.be/37ig50fQ_dI?list=PLF579ECF317F5DC48 polynomials 1/a+1/b+1/c+1/d

63 https://youtu.be/k7RuwNA2pIA?list=PLF579ECF317F5DC48

Mini #63 – Composed and Decomposed Area and Volume

66 https://youtu.be/T_dsqvKEw1c?list=PLF579ECF317F5DC48&t=306 2016 problem

67 chess board knight moves - logical shown

72 2016 last problem 12 sided die https://youtu.be/ezTIviytTi4?list=PLF579ECF317F5DC48

77 shown counting adjacent brick paths https://youtu.be/ZCPbpKUbQvQ?list=PLF579ECF317F5DC48

74 square with 4 hole in it, what's the 6th element to the right of 5? https://youtu.be/ckjwrN6sadA?list=PLF579ECF317F5DC48

76

81 https://youtu.be/LY9e571DrrI?list=PLF579ECF317F5DC48&t=533

79 bases


69 https://youtu.be/ieKWJgGwM78?list=PLF579ECF317F5DC48 in comments:

To find the number of rectangles in a grid, if n = the # of horizontal lines and m = the # of vertical lines, the number of rectangles is nC2 * mC2 (where C means combination) because to make a rectangle, you pick two horizontal lines and two vertical lines. In the first problem, there were 4 horizontal lines and 3 vertical lines. 4C2 * 3C2 = 6 * 3 = 18 rectangles.



geometry problems are easy`

95-89 89 now


95 https://youtu.be/YKFjtMqIuDc?list=PLF579ECF317F5DC48 quite good; later part has an elegant solution

83 https://youtu.be/btc-c34xYSw?list=PLF579ECF317F5DC48

magic square grids


mathcounts minis -

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF579ECF317F5DC48

square difference formula - evil twin formula

shown to sandra beloew-

14 https://youtu.be/dHBPfoSQGI8 quadratic equation and modular arithmetic = quite good;

showed to sandra

84 https://youtu.be/5U4ESpBpCZk?list=PLF579ECF317F5DC48

trapezoids - rotate line to get area ratios; and rectangular segment length


get organized

2009 state sprint

14, video 1

prob of 3 dice rolling to sum 9? subcasing on largest number 6 5 4 3

know cubes 6^3=216

15 video 2 ABC race, can tie, how many ways to finish?

subcase criteria - # of ties or can also be #people in first place

0 tie - 6

3 tie - 1

2 tie first - 3

2 tie last - 3

Counting Methods/Number of Arrangements


target 2 and sprint 22 video 3

arithmetic sequence - gap 3 and 7 -> meet at 21


team 5 video 4

x+1/y=1, y+1/z=1, xyz=?

try out numbers; plug in any number, x=2 eg, y=-1, z=1/2; that gives xyz=-1

doing sth stupid

yz times eq 1; z time eq 2

or xyz=(1-1/y)yz=yz-z=z(y-1)=z(-1/z)=-1!


target 8 video 5 part 2 pigeon hold principle= monkey barrel principle

1-16, max number can draw before getting 2 multiple to a perfect square?

perfect squares

https://youtu.be/oyYYe-LOccI?list=PLF579ECF317F5DC48


2 poster problem video 6, constructive counting


2009 team 6 video 7

https://youtu.be/hWJn-c-tQcU?list=PLF579ECF317F5DC48&t=105

7 counting paths - go backwards


2009 team 7 video 8 Geometry/Auxiliary Lines & Special Right Triangles

seeing things not there, auxillary lines


2009 national team 6 video 9

telescoping -

2/1*3 + 2/2*4+2/3*5+2/4*6+...+2/2008*2010+2/2009*2011 = ?