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Tennessee Math Tournament (TMT) Online 2025
TennesseeMathTournament   27
N 6 hours ago by sadas123
Hello everyone! We are excited to announce a new competition, the Tennessee Math Tournament, created by the Tennessee Math Coalition! Anyone can participate in the virtual competition for free.

The testing window is from March 22nd to April 5th, 2025. Virtual competitors may participate in the competition at any time during that window.

The virtual competition consists of three rounds: Individual, Bullet, and Team. The Individual Round is 60 minutes long and consists of 30 questions (AMC 10 level). The Bullet Round is 20 minutes long and consists of 80 questions (Mathcounts Chapter level). The Team Round is 30 minutes long and consists of 16 questions (AIME level). Virtual competitors may compete in teams of four, or choose to not participate in the team round.

To register and see more information, click here!

If you have any questions, please email connect@tnmathcoalition.org or reply to this thread!
27 replies
TennesseeMathTournament
Mar 9, 2025
sadas123
6 hours ago
OTIS Mock AIME 2025 airs Dec 19th
v_Enhance   38
N Today at 1:32 AM by smileapple
Source: https://web.evanchen.cc/mockaime.html
Satisfactory. Keep cooking.
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Problems are posted at https://web.evanchen.cc/mockaime.html#current now!

Like last year, we're running the OTIS Mock AIME 2025 again, except this time there will actually be both a I and a II because we had enough problems to pull it off. However, the two versions will feel quite different from each other:

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[*] The OTIS Mock AIME I is going to be tough. It will definitely be harder than the actual AIME, by perhaps 2 to 4 problems. But more tangibly, it will also have significant artistic license. Problems will freely assume IMO-style background throughout the test, and intentionally stretch the boundary of what constitutes an “AIME problem”.
[*] The OTIS Mock AIME II is meant to be more practically useful. It will adhere more closely to the difficulty and style of the real AIME. There will inevitably still be some more IMO-flavored problems, but they’ll appear later in the ordering.
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Like last time, all 30 problems are set by current and past OTIS students.

Details are written out at https://web.evanchen.cc/mockaime.html, but to highlight important info:
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[*] Free, obviously. Anyone can participate.
[*]Both tests will release sometime Dec 19th. You can do either/both.
[*]If you'd like to submit for scoring, you should do so by January 20th at 23:59 Pacific time (same deadline for both). Please hold off on public spoilers before then.
[*]Solutions, statistics, and maybe some high scores will be published shortly after that.
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Feel free to post questions, hype comments, etc. in this thread.
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v_Enhance
Dec 6, 2024
smileapple
Today at 1:32 AM
How to get better at AMC 10
Dream9   6
N Today at 1:31 AM by sadas123
I'm nearly in high school now but only average like 75 on AMC 10 sadly. I want to get better so I'm doing like the first 11 questions of previous AMC 10's almost every day because I also did previous years for AMC 8. Is there any specific way to get better scores and understand more difficult problems past AMC 8? I have almost no trouble with AMC 8 problem given enough time (like 23-24 right with enough time).
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Dream9
Yesterday at 1:17 AM
sadas123
Today at 1:31 AM
An FE. Who woulda thunk it?
nikenissan   112
N Today at 1:04 AM by Marcus_Zhang
Source: 2021 USAJMO Problem 1
Let $\mathbb{N}$ denote the set of positive integers. Find all functions $f : \mathbb{N} \rightarrow \mathbb{N}$ such that for positive integers $a$ and $b,$ \[f(a^2 + b^2) = f(a)f(b) \text{ and } f(a^2) = f(a)^2.\]
112 replies
nikenissan
Apr 15, 2021
Marcus_Zhang
Today at 1:04 AM
AIME score for college apps
Happyllamaalways   56
N Yesterday at 4:45 PM by Countmath1
What good colleges do I have a chance of getting into with an 11 on AIME? (Any chances for Princeton)

Also idk if this has weight but I had the highest AIME score in my school.
56 replies
Happyllamaalways
Mar 13, 2025
Countmath1
Yesterday at 4:45 PM
MIT Beaverworks Summer Institute
PowerOfPi_09   0
Yesterday at 4:30 PM
Hi! I was wondering if anyone here has completed this program, and if so, which track did you choose? Do rising juniors have a chance, or is it mainly rising seniors that they accept? Also, how long did it take you to complete the prerequisites?
Thanks!
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PowerOfPi_09
Yesterday at 4:30 PM
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k HOT TAKE: MIT SHOULD NOT RELEASE THEIR DECISIONS ON PI DAY
alcumusftwgrind   8
N Yesterday at 10:13 AM by maxamc
rant lol

Imagine a poor senior waiting for their MIT decisions just to have their hopes CRUSHED on 3/14 and they can't even celebrate pi day...

and even worse, this year's pi day is special because this year is a very special number...

8 replies
alcumusftwgrind
Yesterday at 2:11 AM
maxamc
Yesterday at 10:13 AM
rows are DERANGED and a SOCOURGE to usajmo .
GrantStar   26
N Yesterday at 6:00 AM by joshualiu315
Source: USAJMO 2024/4
Let $n \geq 3$ be an integer. Rowan and Colin play a game on an $n \times n$ grid of squares, where each square is colored either red or blue. Rowan is allowed to permute the rows of the grid and Colin is allowed to permute the columns. A grid coloring is orderly if: [list] [*]no matter how Rowan permutes the rows of the coloring, Colin can then permute the columns to restore the original grid coloring; and [*]no matter how Colin permutes the columns of the coloring, Rowan can then permute the rows to restore the original grid coloring. [/list] In terms of $n$, how many orderly colorings are there?

Proposed by Alec Sun
26 replies
GrantStar
Mar 21, 2024
joshualiu315
Yesterday at 6:00 AM
Geo equals ABsurdly proBEMatic
ihatemath123   73
N Yesterday at 5:38 AM by joshualiu315
Source: 2024 USAMO Problem 5, JMO Problem 6
Point $D$ is selected inside acute $\triangle ABC$ so that $\angle DAC = \angle ACB$ and $\angle BDC = 90^{\circ} + \angle BAC$. Point $E$ is chosen on ray $BD$ so that $AE = EC$. Let $M$ be the midpoint of $BC$.

Show that line $AB$ is tangent to the circumcircle of triangle $BEM$.

Proposed by Anton Trygub
73 replies
ihatemath123
Mar 21, 2024
joshualiu315
Yesterday at 5:38 AM
average FE
KevinYang2.71   74
N Yesterday at 4:55 AM by joshualiu315
Source: USAJMO 2024/5
Find all functions $f:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ that satisfy
\[
f(x^2-y)+2yf(x)=f(f(x))+f(y)
\]for all $x,y\in\mathbb{R}$.

Proposed by Carl Schildkraut
74 replies
KevinYang2.71
Mar 21, 2024
joshualiu315
Yesterday at 4:55 AM
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