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k a April Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
jlacosta   0
Apr 2, 2025
Spring is in full swing and summer is right around the corner, what are your plans? At AoPS Online our schedule has new classes starting now through July, so be sure to keep your skills sharp and be prepared for the Fall school year! Check out the schedule of upcoming classes below.

WOOT early bird pricing is in effect, don’t miss out! If you took MathWOOT Level 2 last year, no worries, it is all new problems this year! Our Worldwide Online Olympiad Training program is for high school level competitors. AoPS designed these courses to help our top students get the deep focus they need to succeed in their specific competition goals. Check out the details at this link for all our WOOT programs in math, computer science, chemistry, and physics.

Looking for summer camps in math and language arts? Be sure to check out the video-based summer camps offered at the Virtual Campus that are 2- to 4-weeks in duration. There are middle and high school competition math camps as well as Math Beasts camps that review key topics coupled with fun explorations covering areas such as graph theory (Math Beasts Camp 6), cryptography (Math Beasts Camp 7-8), and topology (Math Beasts Camp 8-9)!

Be sure to mark your calendars for the following events:
[list][*]April 3rd (Webinar), 4pm PT/7:00pm ET, Learning with AoPS: Perspectives from a Parent, Math Camp Instructor, and University Professor
[*]April 8th (Math Jam), 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET, 2025 MATHCOUNTS State Discussion
April 9th (Webinar), 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET, Learn about Video-based Summer Camps at the Virtual Campus
[*]April 10th (Math Jam), 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET, 2025 MathILy and MathILy-Er Math Jam: Multibackwards Numbers
[*]April 22nd (Webinar), 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET, Competitive Programming at AoPS (USACO).[/list]
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Apr 2, 2025
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2025 Math and AI 4 Girls Competition: Win Up To $1,000!!!
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Join the 2025 Math and AI 4 Girls Competition for a chance to win up to $1,000!

Hey Everyone, I'm pleased to announce the dates for the 2025 MA4G Competition are set!
Applications will open on March 22nd, 2025, and they will close on April 26th, 2025 (@ 11:59pm PST).

Applicants will have one month to fill out an application with prizes for the top 50 contestants & cash prizes for the top 20 contestants (including $1,000 for the winner!). More details below!

Eligibility:
The competition is free to enter, and open to middle school female students living in the US (5th-8th grade).
Award recipients are selected based on their aptitude, activities and aspirations in STEM.

Event dates:
Applications will open on March 22nd, 2025, and they will close on April 26th, 2025 (by 11:59pm PST)
Winners will be announced on June 28, 2025 during an online award ceremony.

Application requirements:
Complete a 12 question problem set on math and computer science/AI related topics
Write 2 short essays

Prizes:
1st place: $1,000 Cash prize
2nd place: $500 Cash prize
3rd place: $300 Cash prize
4th-10th: $100 Cash prize each
11th-20th: $50 Cash prize each
Top 50 contestants: Over $50 worth of gadgets and stationary


Many thanks to our current and past sponsors and partners: Hudson River Trading, MATHCOUNTS, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Automation Anywhere, JP Morgan Chase, D.E. Shaw, and AI4ALL.

Math and AI 4 Girls is a nonprofit organization aiming to encourage young girls to develop an interest in math and AI by taking part in STEM competitions and activities at an early age. The organization will be hosting an inaugural Math and AI 4 Girls competition to identify talent and encourage long-term planning of academic and career goals in STEM.

Contact:
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More information on how to register will be posted on the website. If you have any questions, please ask here!


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audio-on
Jan 26, 2025
mkwhe
20 minutes ago
Looking for Physics or USAPhO Tutor
physicsplease   2
N 40 minutes ago by physicsplease
Hii I am looking for a USAPhO tutor for next year's season. I think I have tried literally everything possible to improve but I feel like I just hit a massive roadblock right now.

It would be ideal if I can find someone who have a lot of experience with physics olympiads. My goal is medal/gold in usapho next year, and I am very determined & willing to put in a lot of hours, especially more so in the summer. Please recommend anyone or dm in aops, thank you.

Have qualified usapho before (last year), took both physics c and sufficient higher math.
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physicsplease
40 minutes ago
Area of a Pizza Percentage Ratio
P_Groudon   4
N an hour ago by Apple_maths60
Source: 2019 AMC 12A #1
The area of a pizza with radius $4$ inches is $N$ percent larger than the area of a pizza with radius $3$ inches. What is the integer closest to $N$?

$\textbf{(A) } 25 \qquad\textbf{(B) } 33 \qquad\textbf{(C) } 44\qquad\textbf{(D) } 66 \qquad\textbf{(E) } 78$
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P_Groudon
Feb 8, 2019
Apple_maths60
an hour ago
Finding counter-examples
franzliszt   39
N an hour ago by Apple_maths60
Source: 2021 AMC 12A #2
Under what conditions is $\sqrt{a^2+b^2}=a+b$ true, where $a$ and $b$ are real numbers?

$\textbf{(A) }$ It is never true.
$\textbf{(B) }$ It is true if and only if $ab=0$.
$\textbf{(C) }$ It is true if and only if $a+b\ge 0$.
$\textbf{(D) }$ It is true if and only if $ab=0$ and $a+b\ge 0$.
$\textbf{(E) }$ It is always true.
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franzliszt
Feb 5, 2021
Apple_maths60
an hour ago
No more topics!
17th ELMO 2015: Ex-Lincoln Math Olympiad
v_Enhance   209
N Jun 29, 2015 by Darn
Source: ELMO 2015 on AoPS
17th Ex-Lincoln Math Olympiad
June 20, 2015
Pittsburgh, PA

This year's ELMO was a one-day event. The problems and solutions for the ELMO are attached in the subsequent post.

The hardest problem on the test was by far Problem 5, which was a complete clean sweep.
The top score this year was 28 points, achieved by the following MOP contestants:
[list]
[*] LIU4 Junyao Peng
[*] LIU7 Allen Yang
[*] FFT2 Vincent Huang
[*] GEO5 Michael Ren
[*] BAE4 Kevin Ren
[/list]
The winning team was BAshErs <3 BAE, led by Meghal Gupta and Demi Guo.

Many AoPS contestants also scored 28 points:
[list]
[*] thecmd999
[*] TheLittleEinstein
[*] anantmugdal09
[*] sicilianfan
[*] AnonymousBunny
[*] mathdebam
[*] Viswanath
[/list]
Several others earned medals as well. The complete results are at the ELMO website, http://web.mit.edu/~evanchen/www/elmo/. As of this year, the ELMO website also records the AoPS users who scored above a medal threshold :)

Thank you to everyone who participated!

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17th Ex-Lincoln Math Olympiad
June 20, 2015
Pittsburgh, PA


This year's ELMO was a one-day event. The problems and solutions for the ELMO are attached in the subsequent post.

The hardest problem on the test was by far Problem 5, which was a complete clean sweep.
The top score this year was 28 points, achieved by the following MOP contestants:
  • LIU4 Junyao Peng
  • LIU7 Allen Yang
  • FFT2 Vincent Huang
  • GEO5 Michael Ren
  • BAE4 Kevin Ren
The winning team was BAshErs <3 BAE, led by Meghal Gupta and Demi Guo.

Many AoPS contestants also scored 28 points:
  • thecmd999
  • TheLittleEinstein
  • anantmugdal09
  • sicilianfan
  • AnonymousBunny
  • mathdebam
  • Viswanath
Several others earned medals as well. The complete results are at the ELMO website, http://web.mit.edu/~evanchen/www/elmo/. As of this year, the ELMO website also records the AoPS users who scored above a medal threshold :)

Thank you to everyone who participated!

Previous Instructions

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The problems and official solutions are attached to this post. :)

http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple4/v4/71/03/86/7103860e-60ab-4127-1fef-4eb10792a3f1/icon_256.png
Attachments:
ELMO_2015_Final.pdf (362kb)
ELMO_2015_Solutions.pdf (170kb)
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