- Final Exam Part I: Hand in your final solutions to USAMTS Round 2. They are due in Dropbox by 5:15 pm on Tuesday, November 24, 2020 (the start of our final exam period).
- Final Exam Part II: Will be held during our final exam period starting at 5:15 pm on Tuesday, November 24, 2020 (in our usual Zoom meeting room). It will cover the Must-Know Facts posted on Piazza. You Must-Know them well enough to quickly answer MATHCOUNTS Countdown-Round-style questions either in your head or using pencil and paper only. No calculators or references allowed. You Must-Know these facts, after all.
Math 479: The Art of Problem Solving
Final Exams – Tuesday, Nov 24, 2020
Math 479 Online
- Math 479 Online Classroom Our home away from home (or at home, whatever the case may be). Click the link above to enter our Zoom classroom.
- Zoom help – Zoom for Scranton students, how to install, how to use, documentation.
- Piazza – a discussion forum specifically for our class where you can post questions, provide answers, and earn points!
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 what we do cover will be listed here.
- 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 upcoming 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
- Power Putnam Preparation by David C. Wright
- Putnam Preparation Practice and Tips by Ravi Vakil
- Putnam Preparation Tips by Michael Helms
- Overleaf – free online LaTeX editor