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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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Mar 24, 2025
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Mar 26, 2025
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.

Are you ready to level up with Olympiad training? Registration is open with early bird pricing available for our WOOT programs: MathWOOT (Levels 1 and 2), CodeWOOT, PhysicsWOOT, and ChemWOOT. What is WOOT? WOOT stands for Worldwide Online Olympiad Training and is a 7-month high school math Olympiad preparation and testing program that brings together many of the best students from around the world to learn Olympiad problem solving skills. Classes begin in September!

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.
[*]March 6th (Thursday), 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET, Free Webinar on Math Competitions from elementary through high school. Join us for an enlightening session that demystifies the world of math competitions and helps you make informed decisions about your contest journey.
[*]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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k i Adding contests to the Contest Collections
dcouchman   1
N Apr 5, 2023 by v_Enhance
Want to help AoPS remain a valuable Olympiad resource? Help us add contests to AoPS's Contest Collections.

Find instructions and a list of contests to add here: https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c40244h1064480_contests_to_add
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dcouchman
Sep 9, 2019
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Apr 5, 2023
k i Zero tolerance
ZetaX   49
N May 4, 2019 by NoDealsHere
Source: Use your common sense! (enough is enough)
Some users don't want to learn, some other simply ignore advises.
But please follow the following guideline:


To make it short: ALWAYS USE YOUR COMMON SENSE IF POSTING!
If you don't have common sense, don't post.


More specifically:

For new threads:


a) Good, meaningful title:
The title has to say what the problem is about in best way possible.
If that title occured already, it's definitely bad. And contest names aren't good either.
That's in fact a requirement for being able to search old problems.

Examples:
Bad titles:
- "Hard"/"Medium"/"Easy" (if you find it so cool how hard/easy it is, tell it in the post and use a title that tells us the problem)
- "Number Theory" (hey guy, guess why this forum's named that way¿ and is it the only such problem on earth¿)
- "Fibonacci" (there are millions of Fibonacci problems out there, all posted and named the same...)
- "Chinese TST 2003" (does this say anything about the problem¿)
Good titles:
- "On divisors of a³+2b³+4c³-6abc"
- "Number of solutions to x²+y²=6z²"
- "Fibonacci numbers are never squares"


b) Use search function:
Before posting a "new" problem spend at least two, better five, minutes to look if this problem was posted before. If it was, don't repost it. If you have anything important to say on topic, post it in one of the older threads.
If the thread is locked cause of this, use search function.

Update (by Amir Hossein). The best way to search for two keywords in AoPS is to input
[code]+"first keyword" +"second keyword"[/code]
so that any post containing both strings "first word" and "second form".


c) Good problem statement:
Some recent really bad post was:
[quote]$lim_{n\to 1}^{+\infty}\frac{1}{n}-lnn$[/quote]
It contains no question and no answer.
If you do this, too, you are on the best way to get your thread deleted. Write everything clearly, define where your variables come from (and define the "natural" numbers if used). Additionally read your post at least twice before submitting. After you sent it, read it again and use the Edit-Button if necessary to correct errors.


For answers to already existing threads:


d) Of any interest and with content:
Don't post things that are more trivial than completely obvious. For example, if the question is to solve $x^{3}+y^{3}=z^{3}$, do not answer with "$x=y=z=0$ is a solution" only. Either you post any kind of proof or at least something unexpected (like "$x=1337, y=481, z=42$ is the smallest solution). Someone that does not see that $x=y=z=0$ is a solution of the above without your post is completely wrong here, this is an IMO-level forum.
Similar, posting "I have solved this problem" but not posting anything else is not welcome; it even looks that you just want to show off what a genius you are.

e) Well written and checked answers:
Like c) for new threads, check your solutions at least twice for mistakes. And after sending, read it again and use the Edit-Button if necessary to correct errors.



To repeat it: ALWAYS USE YOUR COMMON SENSE IF POSTING!


Everything definitely out of range of common sense will be locked or deleted (exept for new users having less than about 42 posts, they are newbies and need/get some time to learn).

The above rules will be applied from next monday (5. march of 2007).
Feel free to discuss on this here.
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ZetaX
Feb 27, 2007
NoDealsHere
May 4, 2019
Fixed point config on external similar isosceles triangles
Assassino9931   0
25 minutes ago
Source: Bulgaria Spring Mathematical Competition 10.2
Let $AB$ be an acute scalene triangle. A point \( D \) varies on its side \( BC \). The points \( P \) and \( Q \) are the midpoints of the arcs \( \widehat{AB} \) and \( \widehat{AC} \) (not containing \( D \)) of the circumcircles of triangles \( ABD \) and \( ACD \), respectively. Prove that the circumcircle of triangle \( PQD \) passes through a fixed point, independent of the choice of \( D \) on \( BC \).
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Assassino9931
25 minutes ago
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Train yourself on folklore NT FE ideas
Assassino9931   0
28 minutes ago
Source: Bulgaria Spring Mathematical Competition 9.4
Determine all functions $f: \mathbb{Z}_{>0} \to \mathbb{Z}_{>0}$ such that $f(a) + 2ab + 2f(b)$ divides $f(a)^2 + 4f(b)^2$ for any positive integers $a$ and $b$.
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+1 w
Assassino9931
28 minutes ago
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Spanning tree preserving a dominating set
Assassino9931   0
30 minutes ago
Source: Bulgaria Spring Mathematical Competition 9.3
In a country, there are towns, some of which are connected by roads. There is a route (not necessarily direct) between every two towns. The Minister of Education has ensured that every town without a school is connected via a direct road to a town that has a school. The Minister of State Optimization wants to ensure that there is a unique path between any two towns (without repeating traveled segments), which may require removing some roads.

Is it always possible to achieve this without constructing additional schools while preserving what the Minister of Education has accomplished?
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Assassino9931
30 minutes ago
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Geo challenge on finding simple ways to solve it
Assassino9931   0
32 minutes ago
Source: Bulgaria Spring Mathematical Competition 9.2
Let $ABC$ be an acute scalene triangle inscribed in a circle \( \Gamma \). The angle bisector of \( \angle BAC \) intersects \( BC \) at \( L \) and \( \Gamma \) at \( S \). The point \( M \) is the midpoint of \( AL \). Let \( AD \) be the altitude in \( \triangle ABC \), and the circumcircle of \( \triangle DSL \) intersects \( \Gamma \) again at \( P \). Let \( N \) be the midpoint of \( BC \), and let \( K \) be the reflection of \( D \) with respect to \( N \). Prove that the triangles \( \triangle MPS \) and \( \triangle ADK \) are similar.
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Assassino9931
32 minutes ago
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Inspired by KHOMNYO2
sqing   1
N 33 minutes ago by sqing
Source: Own
Let $ a,b>0 $ and $ a^2+b^2=\frac{5}{2}. $ Prove that $$ 2a + 2b + \frac{1}{a} + \frac{1}{b}  +\frac{ab}{\sqrt 2}\geq 5\sqrt 2$$$$ a +  b +\frac{2}{a} + \frac{2}{b}  + ab\geq \frac{5}{4} + \frac{13}{\sqrt 5} $$$$ a +  b +\frac{2}{a} + \frac{2}{b}  +  \frac{ab}{\sqrt 2}\geq \frac{5}{4\sqrt 2} + \frac{13}{\sqrt 5} $$
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sqing
Friday at 2:30 PM
sqing
33 minutes ago
Challenge for the community
MTA_2024   23
N 34 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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MTA_2024
Yesterday at 11:06 PM
MTA_2024
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VERY HARD MATH PROBLEM!
slimshadyyy.3.60   8
N 34 minutes ago by slimshadyyy.3.60
Let a ≥b ≥c ≥0 be real numbers such that a^2 +b^2 +c^2 +abc = 4. Prove that
a+b+c+(√a−√c)^2 ≥3.
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slimshadyyy.3.60
Yesterday at 10:49 PM
slimshadyyy.3.60
34 minutes ago
Thanks u!
Ruji2018252   1
N 43 minutes ago by Primeniyazidayi
Let $x,y,z,t\in\mathbb{R}$ and $\begin{cases}x^2+y^2=4\\z^2+t^2=9\\xt+yz\geqslant 6\end{cases}$.
$1,$ Prove $xz=yt$
$2,$ Find maximum $P=x+z$
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Incircle
PDHT   2
N an hour ago by Resolut1on07
Source: Nguyen Minh Ha
Given a triangle \(ABC\) that is not isosceles at \(A\), let \((I)\) be its incircle, which is tangent to \(BC, CA, AB\) at \(D, E, F\), respectively. The lines \(DE\) and \(DF\) intersect the line passing through \(A\) and parallel to \(BC\) at \(M\) and \(N\), respectively. The lines passing through \(M, N\) and perpendicular to \(MN\) intersect \(IF\) and \(IE\) at \(Q\) and \(P\), respectively.

Prove that \(D, P, Q\) are collinear and that \(PF, QE, DI\) are concurrent.
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PDHT
Mar 20, 2025
Resolut1on07
an hour ago
Probably appeared before
steven_zhang123   3
N an hour ago by steven_zhang123
In the plane, there are two line segments $AB$ and $CD$, with $AB \neq CD$. Prove that there exists and only exists one point $P$ such that $\triangle PAB \sim \triangle PCD$.($P$ corresponds to $P$, $A$ corresponds to $C$)
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steven_zhang123
Today at 2:29 AM
steven_zhang123
an hour ago
Something nice
KhuongTrang   27
N an hour ago by Zuyong
Source: own
Problem. Given $a,b,c$ be non-negative real numbers such that $ab+bc+ca=1.$ Prove that

$$\sqrt{a+1}+\sqrt{b+1}+\sqrt{c+1}\le 1+2\sqrt{a+b+c+abc}.$$
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KhuongTrang
Nov 1, 2023
Zuyong
an hour ago
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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KevinYang2.71
Mar 21, 2025
Bardia7003
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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r00tsOfUnity
Feb 8, 2023
Mathgloggers
2 hours ago
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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MihaiT
5 hours ago
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What should I do
Jaxman8   2
N Mar 26, 2025 by Aaronjudgeisgoat
I recently mocked 2 AMC 10’s, and 2 AIME’s. My scores for the AMC 10 were both 123 and my AIME scores were 8 and 9 for 2010 I and II. What should I study for 2025-2026 AMCs? Goal is JMO.
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Mar 26, 2025
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Great job, this Is what my friends who have jumped have done:
1. Practice college comps, provide many selected problems
2. Grind aops mocks, you'll see a lot within 2 to 3 months of AMC season
3. Grind aime, which also helps on speed for AMC even though you think it may not
Again this is what my friends who have jmoed have done, you are free to not trust me though
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Hi, I think I might be one of said friends :D

Note that 2010 will be probably moderately easier than the 2026 AIME's.

One thing I suggest you do before grinding problems is to at least know all the concepts needed to be able to solve anything up to p11. You don't need to be able to apply these theorems/ concepts, just know what they are first and remember them.
From there, grind grind grind. You can do this by grinding a bunch of aime problems, (maybe use mathdash.com/stats/aime), as well as college comps of similar difficulty. This helps with AIME, and doing mid level AIME problems definitely helps with late AMC problems, and makes you faster in my opinion. Also, take a lot of mocks. For every week or month you put in, trying to get one extra AMC or AIME question correct, just one silly at the wrong time can take that away. The best way to avoid this is to frequently put yourself in test conditions and aim not to make a single silly. From there, analyze each mock to see what went well, and what didn't, for both AMC's and AIME's.
This is just what I did to go from a 112.5/5 to a 127.5/11. It may work for you, it may not. But if you think it's a good idea, try it out fr
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