Also those courses are very helpful for home school parents. For other kids, it can be supplemental resources to help kids to get their feet wet before they learn these courses next school year. Or it is alternative to the other summer camps for your kids. Johns Hopkins University’s CTY summer programs are very good. […]
I have been concentrating on my son’s math education for last two years. During this period, I have found many useful resources that I think every parent should know. One of them is theGreatCoures.com. It is a LLC company in Chantily, Virginia. It has been running for past 20 years. Right now, it sells the […]
I have been concentrating on my son’s middle school math last two years. It is pretty fruitful: My son took January 28, 2012 SAT I . He was 8 year 11 month old. He scored 700 on math section. ( http://cty.jhu.edu/set/index.html ) He took AMC 8 on November 23, 2012 and scored 23 out of […]
There are 32 distinguish honor roll (top 1%) students and 52 honor rolls (top 2.5%) students in Virginia who took AMC 10a. These 84 students are the AIME qualifiers. ( There may be more qualifiers through AMC 10b on Feb. 20th, 2013. These neither include those qualifiers through AMC 12a or 12b.)
AIME Qualification Changes Starting in 2011, the qualification parameters slightly relaxed for the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME). For students taking the 2013 AMC 10 contests, students in the top 2.5% of all scorers or scorers or with at least 120 points (whichever is more inclusive) to the AIME. This differs from the values of […]
FCAG sponsored a featured speaker on Feb. 24th, 2013 at Longfellow Middle School. Prof. Arthur Benjamin ( http://www.math.hmc.edu/~benjamin/ ) gave speech to about around 400 audiences ( planned for 200 audiences). Prof. Arthur first showed a new ‘invisible’ card magic he never disclosed before. Then he conduced his routine mental math for about 1 hour. […]
go to following link: http://amc-reg.maa.org/Reports/GeneralReports.aspx you find lots of helpful information from there. 1. You choose a contest from there. You can find: AMC 10/12 02/05/2013 AMC 8 11/13/2012 AIME II 03/28/2012 AIME 03/15/2012 AMC 10/12 B 02/22/2012 AMC 10/12 A 02/07/2012 AMC 8 11/15/2011 AIME II 03/30/2011 AIME 03/17/2011 AMC 10/12 B 02/23/2011 AMC […]
AMC 10a, 2013 was taken on Feb. 5th 2013 evening at Luther Jackson Middle School with the help of FCAG.org. FCAG invited those who scored high on AMC 8 to take AMC 10 free. Most of them are young students in Elementary Schools and Middle Schools. Some High Schools like Thomas Jefferson High School for […]
2012 AMC 8 (http://amc.maa.org/e-exams/e4-amc08/amc8.shtml) was held on Nov. 13, 2012. It was Tuesday. My son took AMC 8 through FCAG sponsored free AMC 8 test. (FCAG is a non-profit organization helping gifted and talented kids and their parents in Fairfax county. Actually, they don’t limited themselves for helping people in other places. Some students from […]