- Study all of your Must-Know Facts – we will have a longer-than-usual Must-Know quiz of problems using those facts.
- Bring your Must-Know and Problem Solving Notebooks – they will be graded and given back to you.
- Bring your Training Log up to date – log any hours you put in this semester. You can record hours we spend in class. It will be graded as part of your final grade.
Math 101: Mathematics Discovery
Final Exam – Thursday, May 16, 2019 – 5:30-7:30PM
Course Handouts and References
- Course Syllabus
- Answer Form – for handing in the answers to your homework assignments that have short answers or multiple choice.
- Non-lecture Notes – Not a lot here, since it isn’t a lecture style course. But some of what we do cover is listed here and updated throughout the semester.
- MATHCOUNTS Playbook – Coach Monks’s Playbook used for coaching his Mathletes (also available in black and white for printing)
- High School Playbook – the extension of the MATHCOUNTS Playbook to include more facts relevant to high school level competitions by Ken G. Monks and Maria Monks (also available in black and white for printing)
- Left to Right Subtraction How to subtract the (left to) right way. (An excerpt from an book I’m writing for MATHCOUNTS students.)
- Proofs – notes and handouts from my Math 299 course on mathematical proofs
References by other authors
- Art of Problem Solving – the center of the universe for all things related to problem solving mathematics!
- MATHCOUNTS Vocabulary – from the MATHCOUNTS handbook
- Allowable forms of Answers – from the MATHCOUNTS handbook
- All of Math in Three Pages – from mandelbrot.org, the Mandelbrot competition website
- Notes on Euclidean Geometry – by Kiran Kedlaya
- Notes on Inequalities – by Kiran Kedlaya
- Notes on Polynomials – by John Kennedy
- Online Graph Theory Tutorial – by Chris Caldwell
- Olympiad Problems – a collection of problems and solutions from international Olympiads by Walter Mientka
- Olympiad Problems – another collection of problems and solutions from international Olympiads by Walter Mientka
- Overleaf – free online LaTeX editor