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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
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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.

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[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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Fill in the blanks to make the equation true.
( __−__ ) ⋅ __ ÷ __ + __ = 59/7

With the digit(s) below make the equation true-

$1$, $3$, $5$, $7$, $9$.
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Hi everyone!

So I am currently in grade 6, and if anyone could give any tips for getting high scores in math competition, that would be great!

I haven't been doing so well in AMC 8, and other competitions like Math Kangaroo, etc....

I feel like i'm stuck, so if anyone could give any resources that helped you learn and score better, could you share that with me?

Thank you so much!

( also how much time should i spend on math every day? )
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What is (9 x 10^10) - (4 x 10^10)
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Xueshuxue   19
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Hello, I was wondering if it's possible to make 8 with the numbers 5, 3, 5, and 7 under the following rules:
-You can only use 5 twice, 3 once, and 7 once.
-You must use all the numbers.
You can stack numbers to form larger numbers (example: I could take 3 and 5 and turn it into 35 or 53, or use 7, 3, and 5 to make 375.)
-You are allowed to use parentheses.
(Also, I already found out that no 3 digital numbers will work for the solution.)
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I feel stupid honestly, and fyi, I did go over every question. Focus is counting with symmetry
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I feel stupid honestly, and fyi, I did go over every question. Focus is counting with symmetry
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original post because the guy got banned
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Actually, make that MSM :/
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#6 h  Mar 26, 2025, 2:13 AM
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make that AOPS go to Site Support and HSM
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#7 h  Mar 26, 2025, 2:14 AM • 1 Y
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before the guy got banned
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All of the posts by this user-every single one-have language or something about curry.
Imho, they should be banned
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#11 h  Mar 26, 2025, 5:03 AM
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@OP that's unusual. Maybe ask site support as @twang2015 suggested?
It might take into account what difficulty level alcumus is set to? Easier problems increase the bar thing less than harder ones. The bar might have gone down if you answered multiple questions wrong.

Its ok to not understand a topic when you're learning it. I would recommend reading the corresponding sections of the C&P book, watching the aops videos, and doing more practice problems. Maybe come back in 2 weeks and redo some of the problems that you read the solution to.
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Who has all curry posts? THATS strange
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Also I have my difficulty on hard so I’m not even on the highest difficult): ‘
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#14 h  Mar 27, 2025, 2:44 PM
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This should really be in the Alcumus forum...

Doing 48 questions on a topic in order to pass it is a little bit high, but it's still perfectly fine especially if it's a difficult topic. You may want to take a break from Alcumus if you go over fifty or sixty problems and come back.
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