First PUMaC experience

PUMaC is a high school math competition operated by Princeton students. It is kind of similar to HMMT – Harvard MIT Math Tournament. My son is still in middle school. But he would like to try some high school math competition. He tried HMMT November version the year before. It was kind of hard. This year, he has fallen in love with math proof. He enjoys the math proof more than the calculation math. He felt that Mathcounts type of problems are not fun any more. He spends many hours on some very hard geometry proof. So this year, he hasn’t done any preparation for Mathcounts by himself. Just went to school practice and warm up practice the day before. At PUMaC, he took Algebra and Geometry. He met most of the mathlets from the country. Last year IMO golden winner Michael Heath was his TA in his summer camp last. He beat Michael on the PUMaC Geometry test. It tells the difference between proof and calculation math are so different.
Michael is the world top geometry proof high schooler. He doesn’t put too much effort on the calculation math.

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