New MOP location
We know that MOPs program is the dream place for High School students who love math. MOPs Its main purpose is to train the USA IMO players and futures players. It has been at University of Nebraska Lincoln for many years.
I am very glad that it is hosted in CMU this year and hope that MOP can stay in CMU for next several years until my son can go there. 🙂 It is only several hours drive for us.
TJHSST sent several students to MOP 2015. (Blue and Pink MOPs). Hope there will be black MOPPER from TJHSST soon. 🙂
——— Here is the brief location history of MOP program
The first few MOPs were held at Rutgers University. After that, and until 1995, the program was alternately hosted by the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland in even-numbered years and by the United States Military Academy at West Point in odd-numbered years. The 1995 MOP was held at IMSA in Aurora, Illinois, where then-MOP director Titu Andreescu was a member of the math faculty. Most of the MOPs from 1996 on forward have been held in Lincoln, Nebraska where the AMC headquarters is located. An exception was made in the summer of 2001, as the United States would be hosting the IMO that year in Washington, D.C., and nearby Georgetown was selected as the location for MOP. In 2015, MOP was held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
IMO this year! America Won #1 Place!
Zuming Feng has been the USA IMO team coach for many years. We thank Dr. Feng for his great contribution to USA math education!
We are glad that we have a young successor of Honorable Dr. Feng. Dr. Po-Shen Loh lead USA IMO team won the 2015 IMO gold medal.
http://www.maa.org/news/us-team-takes-first-place-at-international-mathematical-olympiad
http://www.math.cmu.edu/~ploh/
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Po-Shen Loh, who is a member of the mathematics faculty at CMU, directs MOSP and leads the USA IMO team. Loh is excited about the success of the six students, and sees the success of the team as an outgrowth of the extended goals of the program. As quoted in an article posted this week on the Simons Foundation website, Loh notes that “the focus of our program should be to recognize that we have 54 of the most impactful high school students in terms of potential, and we should help them be successful long-term.”
— quote from maa.org
Thanks for many feedbacks
Dear Friends, Thank you for your visiting of my blogs. It has been quite a while since I updated the blog. Sorry for that. 🙂
At the same time, it was a quite rewarding last year. We are building a new house. Our kids grow very happily. So we are very enjoying every day of our lives.
My son has grown a little last year. He is taller than his mom now. 🙂 He went to Mathcounts National Competition in Boston in May 2015. He loved the experiences to meet all those top 200s math kids around the country in middle schools. Most of them have been his friends for long time in the AOPS classes. Also, last year was the time my son started to enjoy math proof. He can think about an olympiad level geometry proof for several days and found a solution at 2:00am. It was also the best time for my daughter. She has been enjoying her schools and all the activities: choir, dance, gymnastics, violin, table tennis, reading and writing. She won national 2nd place in a PBS writing contest. So I will share more with you. Love you all!
A very good website to share with you: theGreatCourses.com – Continued
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. But if for some reasons, some parents can’t find the time to drive and drop off kids there, or can’t find a car-pool, or even can’t afford the expensive camp fees ( it is around $2000 per 3 weeks day camp, more expensive for the residential camp. ), you can buy some of the courses from theGreatCourses.com for your kids to watch at home. Though it may lack of the interactive environment as at the camp, it is much cheaper. 🙂
Wow! Almost forget to mention that don’t be scared by the list price on the website.
For example: Algebra I list price is: $254.95, I got it at $54.95.
Secrets of Mental Math, list price: $199.95, I got it at $19.95.
There are 70% off sales all the time. There are some 80% off sales near month end, or before holidays, etc.
If you live in northern Virginia, you can get free shipping.
A very good website to share with you: theGreatCourses.com
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 DVD and CD of many college and some high school courses.
It also supports the online streaming for those courses.
There are lots of better living, health, fitness programs and courses as well.
You can find the high school courses section here.
http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/courses/Recommendations.aspx?ps=902
You can find Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, Trigonometry, PreCalculus, Calculus here.
You can find the courses by Topic:
Science & Mathematics
History
Fine Arts & Music
Religion & Theology
Philosophy & Intellectual History
Literature & English Language
Business & Economics
Better Living
Professional
High School
All courses are in 30 minutes lectures formats. For example, the
Algebra I
has 36 lectures, each lecture is around 30 minutes.
It comes with a workbook. You spends another $12-$25 to buy the books of all the teaching script.
Last Two Years:
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 25. The top score in Luther Jackson Middle school and Frost Middle School (all are 8th graders) is also 23.
He was 9 year 9 month old. AMC 8 score of 23 put him in the top 1% of AMC 8 nation-wide and in distinguish honor roll.
On Feb. 5th 2013, he took AMC 10A. He scored 111. The cutoff of top 2.5% is 108.0. This cutoff score of 108.0 is also the AIME qualification line.
So he qualified for AIME when he was 10 year 0.1 month old.
During the process of helping my son with his math, I have gone through all the middle school and high school math.
I finally finished the long expected:
Advanced SCAT Math Question Book .
It is my 1.5 year of hard work. I am very happy it is available now.
Virginia AIME qualifiers through 2013 AMC 10A
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
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 1% (or 120 points) which have been in effect since 2004. For students taking the 2013 AMC 12, students in the top 5% of all scorers or scorers with at least 100 points to the AIME. These AMC 12 qualification values remain at the same level they have been since 2000.
For AMC 10 takers, the cutoff core to qualify for AIME was 115.5 in 2012. It is 108.0 in 2013 due to a little harder problems.
Feb. 24th, 2013. Longfellow Middle School, Math Magician -Prof. Arthur Benjamin
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.
The audiences interacted with Prof. Benjamin very well last night. Audiences asked what is his Ph. D. thesis about (operational research).
How many of his fast speeds are from calculations or momerization? How many digits of Pi can he momerize?
Prof. Benjamin showed his magic sequare and disclose the secrete to audience. It is a free reward to those audience came out to this speech at Sunday night.
During the speech, Franklin, Cindy and several other students were invited to come to the front to help. Cindy also showed her momerizing of pi to 60 digits.
It is a great event. so many young students as well as their parents showed up.
Prof. Benjamin also brought lots of his DVD published by the greatcourses.com ( http://www.thegreatcourses.com/greatcourses.aspx )
Mental Math, Joy of Mathematics, and discrete Math. Prof. came to the greatcourses to record his new course – Games and Puzzles.
We will expect to see this new course DVD in early summer. 🙂
We bought mental math and joy of math recently. We got Prof. Benjamin’s signatures on our books accompanied the DVD.
My two kids also took pictures with Prof. Benjamin. If they still love math after they grow up, they can go to Harvey Mudd college to study math from Prof. Benjamin there. 🙂
If you haven’t heard of Prof. Arthur Benjamin, please view it at:
http://www.ted.com/talks/arthur_benjamin_does_mathemagic.html
How to use the AMC report generator to find your information.
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 10/12 A 02/08/2011
AMC 8 11/16/2010
2. After you choose a contest /sometime, you need to choose a sub contest for AMC 10 or AMC 12.
Then you can choose the location: (You can choose the countries or the states of US)
3. Then you can choose different reports:
( contest score report distribution graph,
achievement roll
contest score gender report with percentile graph
contest score grade report with percentile graph,
contest score team report,
distinguish honor roll,
gender and grade average,
honor roll,
item difficulty
perfect scores )
For example, you can find the report: AMC 10a, 2/05/2013, Virginia, distinguish honor roll: total 32 students
honor rolls: 52.
So totally, there are 32 + 52 = 84 students qualified for AIME through AMC 10a test in Virginia in 2013.