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k a My Retirement & New Leadership at AoPS
rrusczyk   1571
N Mar 26, 2025 by SmartGroot
I write today to announce my retirement as CEO from Art of Problem Solving. When I founded AoPS 22 years ago, I never imagined that we would reach so many students and families, or that we would find so many channels through which we discover, inspire, and train the great problem solvers of the next generation. I am very proud of all we have accomplished and I’m thankful for the many supporters who provided inspiration and encouragement along the way. I'm particularly grateful to all of the wonderful members of the AoPS Community!

I’m delighted to introduce our new leaders - Ben Kornell and Andrew Sutherland. Ben has extensive experience in education and edtech prior to joining AoPS as my successor as CEO, including starting like I did as a classroom teacher. He has a deep understanding of the value of our work because he’s an AoPS parent! Meanwhile, Andrew and I have common roots as founders of education companies; he launched Quizlet at age 15! His journey from founder to MIT to technology and product leader as our Chief Product Officer traces a pathway many of our students will follow in the years to come.

Thank you again for your support for Art of Problem Solving and we look forward to working with millions more wonderful problem solvers in the years to come.

And special thanks to all of the amazing AoPS team members who have helped build AoPS. We’ve come a long way from here:IMAGE
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k a March Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
jlacosta   0
Mar 2, 2025
March is the month for State MATHCOUNTS competitions! Kudos to everyone who participated in their local chapter competitions and best of luck to all going to State! Join us on March 11th for a Math Jam devoted to our favorite Chapter competition problems! Are you interested in training for MATHCOUNTS? Be sure to check out our AMC 8/MATHCOUNTS Basics and Advanced courses.

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Do you have plans this summer? There are so many options to fit your schedule and goals whether attending a summer camp or taking online classes, it can be a great break from the routine of the school year. Check out our summer courses at AoPS Online, or if you want a math or language arts class that doesn’t have homework, but is an enriching summer experience, our AoPS Virtual Campus summer camps may be just the ticket! We are expanding our locations for our AoPS Academies across the country with 15 locations so far and new campuses opening in Saratoga CA, Johns Creek GA, and the Upper West Side NY. Check out this page for summer camp information.

Be sure to mark your calendars for the following events:
[list][*]March 5th (Wednesday), 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET, HCSSiM Math Jam 2025. Amber Verser, Assistant Director of the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics, will host an information session about HCSSiM, a summer program for high school students.
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[*]March 11th (Tuesday), 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET, 2025 MATHCOUNTS Chapter Discussion MATH JAM. AoPS instructors will discuss some of their favorite problems from the MATHCOUNTS Chapter Competition. All are welcome!
[*]March 13th (Thursday), 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET, Free Webinar about Summer Camps at the Virtual Campus. Transform your summer into an unforgettable learning adventure! From elementary through high school, we offer dynamic summer camps featuring topics in mathematics, language arts, and competition preparation - all designed to fit your schedule and ignite your passion for learning.[/list]
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Challenge for the community
MTA_2024   23
N 38 minutes ago by MTA_2024
This is a challenge to the whole AoPS community I bet you can't prove this basic inequality: $$(X_1+X_2+\cdots+X_n)(\dfrac{1}{X_1}+\dfrac{1}{X_2}+\cdots+\dfrac{1}{X_n})\geq n^2$$by $15$ different methods. The same inequality can be used twice but in different ways, dm me if you have any question about the rules.
Feelin good for this one.
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usamOOK geometry
KevinYang2.71   92
N 2 hours ago by Bardia7003
Source: USAMO 2025/4, USAJMO 2025/5
Let $H$ be the orthocenter of acute triangle $ABC$, let $F$ be the foot of the altitude from $C$ to $AB$, and let $P$ be the reflection of $H$ across $BC$. Suppose that the circumcircle of triangle $AFP$ intersects line $BC$ at two distinct points $X$ and $Y$. Prove that $C$ is the midpoint of $XY$.
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Mar 21, 2025
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2 hours ago
did U silly this?
r00tsOfUnity   31
N 2 hours ago by Mathgloggers
Source: 2023 AIME I #10
There exists a unique positive integer $a$ for which the sum \[U=\sum_{n=1}^{2023}\left\lfloor\dfrac{n^{2}-na}{5}\right\rfloor\]is an integer strictly between $-1000$ and $1000$. For that unique $a$, find $a+U$.

(Note that $\lfloor x\rfloor$ denotes the greatest integer that is less than or equal to $x$.)
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Feb 8, 2023
Mathgloggers
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one nice!
MihaiT   0
5 hours ago
Given $m_1$ weights, each weighing $k_1$ and another $m_2$ weights with $k_2$ each. Write a algorithm that determines the ways in which a scale can be balanced with a weight $X$ on the left pan, and display the number of possible solutions. (The weights can be placed on both pans and the program starts with the numbers $m_1,k_1,m_2,k_2,X$. What will be displayed after three successive runs: 5,2,5,1,4 | 5,2,5,1,11 | 5,2,5,1,20?

One answer is possible:
a)10;5;0;
b)20;7;0;
c)20;7;1;
d)10;10;0;
e)10;7;0;
f)20;5;0,
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Change of contest venue from AMC10/12 to AIME
AMCDirector   4
N Mar 5, 2016 by Emathmaster
Source: amcinfo@maa.org
Dear AMC Students:

There seems to be some confusion about the meaning of one of our notes to contest managers, about changes of venue from AMC10/12 to AIME. Please know that we are committed to making it possible for all qualified AIME candidates to take the contest.

It has always been our policy that students should take the two contests in the same place, that this place should be a school or other public facility, and that the contest manager (proctor) not be a family member of any candidate.

These rules have not changed, and we ask you to honor them with rare exception. If your original contest site is unavailable to you (weather, vacation, local holiday), or if you are travelling during the AIME administration day, you must find an alternative venue which fits our requirements and which is willing to administer to you the AIME contest. Then you should have the contest manager (proctor) at the alternative venue write us an email at amcinfo@maa.org . Ours is a school-based program. We will arrange for contest administration with the personnel at the alternative venue.

We ask that you refrain from changing venue simply because of convenience. It takes hours, without exaggeration, to effect even a few changes of venue. We offer the AIME at no cost to the field, and the effort made by the mathematical community to sustain this effort is considerable. We ask you, as future members of this community, to take seriously this effort, by thinking two or three times before initiating a change of venue request.

While I have your ear, you can help in another way: you can remember the name you used in writing the AMC10/12 contest, and use exactly the same name for the AIME contest. Following this rule, and also the rules for change of venue, makes it easier for us to offer you the USA(J)MO, should you qualify.

We thank you in advance for your cooperation in this situation.






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Mar 5, 2016
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Dear AMC Students:

There seems to be some confusion about the meaning of one of our notes to contest managers, about changes of venue from AMC10/12 to AIME. Please know that we are committed to making it possible for all qualified AIME candidates to take the contest.

It has always been our policy that students should take the two contests in the same place, that this place should be a school or other public facility, and that the contest manager (proctor) not be a family member of any candidate.

These rules have not changed, and we ask you to honor them with rare exception. If your original contest site is unavailable to you (weather, vacation, local holiday), or if you are travelling during the AIME administration day, you must find an alternative venue which fits our requirements and which is willing to administer to you the AIME contest. Then you should have the contest manager (proctor) at the alternative venue write us an email at amcinfo@maa.org . Ours is a school-based program. We will arrange for contest administration with the personnel at the alternative venue.

We ask that you refrain from changing venue simply because of convenience. It takes hours, without exaggeration, to effect even a few changes of venue. We offer the AIME at no cost to the field, and the effort made by the mathematical community to sustain this effort is considerable. We ask you, as future members of this community, to take seriously this effort, by thinking two or three times before initiating a change of venue request.

While I have your ear, you can help in another way: you can remember the name you used in writing the AMC10/12 contest, and use exactly the same name for the AIME contest. Following this rule, and also the rules for change of venue, makes it easier for us to offer you the USA(J)MO, should you qualify.

We thank you in advance for your cooperation in this situation.
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Thank you for the clarification from the AMC Director. This message does provide MAA's clarification regarding those students who want to change their AIME venue just for their "convenience", or other situations like holiday, vacation, weather, student's travel, etc.

However, it does not address the situation of those students who are NOT requesting for a venue change to accommodate their personal "conveniences", rather because the venue where they took the AMC is NOT administering the AIME at all. There are many such locations that administer the AMCs, but do not offer to administer the AIME for those that have qualified. Examples in a situation I know about personally - in 2015 a local school administered the 10-A, and a local college administered the 10/12-B. But both of them refused to administer the AIME, and a student had to find a totally different 3rd location that would allow him to take the AIME. If this were to happen in 2016, then under the new rule, the student would not be able to take the AIME at all even if they qualified.

Perhaps the MAA should introduce a new rule for participating locations to mandate offering the AIME and USA(J)MO tests for ALL those students who qualify from their location. But the downside might be that this would perhaps result in several locations dropping out from participating at all, and reduce the total number of available locations to take the AMC tests.
In large cities this may not be a problem where many schools offer both A & B versions of AMCs, and offer all tests all the way up to USA(J)MO so students can find some place to take the AMCs. But in smaller / less urban areas this may be a serious issue - and this should not cause talented students living in such areas to be at a disadvantage.

I hope this message finds its way to the AMC Director for consideration.
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Also, I'd like to note of other controversy: the rounding up of scores in Taiwan. May I politely ask why scores are rounded up in Taiwan?

Due to this, students who get a "real" score of 109.5 (10A) in Taiwan makes AIME, but one in the US does not. Similarly, students with a 91.5 (12A) in Taiwan (so actually 92) will take the AIME, while a taker in the US does not.

I find this ethically unfair, since both students, the Taiwanese and American, had the same score; but one qualified for AIME simply due to test-taking location, and the other did not.

There are two ways, in my opinion, to make up for this problem:
  1. Cancel rounded-up scores in Taiwan
  2. Change AIME cutoffs to be integer multiples of 1.5, namely 109.5 and 91.5 (most recommended)
If not possible for this year, please consider this for next year and/or the years after.

This will hopefully make what is already a very fun contest more fair to all of the mathletes taking it. Good luck!
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I qualified for the AIME through both the A and the B tests at different venues. If I want to use the higher score for my USAMO index, do I have to take the AIME at the location where I received the higher score?
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Will you be disqualified if you do not make an E-Mail?
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