“I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.” – RFK
Once again, ARML has come and gone. This year marks the 10th consecutive ARML that I’ve attended. It was really fun seeing old timers and meeting so many great kids for the first time. I even met a few really cool kids from Dalton and Horrace Mann! Of course, then there’s the usual suspects from [...]
High school students who compete in math team competitions have probably heard of the American Regions Math League, or ARML for short. Many states struggle to come up with enough funding to send their kids to this prestigious competition, so I decided to look through their tax forms to see how efficient this organization is. [...]
Posted in math on Feb 17th, 2007
The American Mathematics Competitions, or AMC, has quietly amended its rules for calculator usage. (Incidentally, the AMC is undergoing a major overhaul of its website, check it out!) Starting in 2008, no calculators will be allowed on the AMC 8 / 10 / 12. I am not sure whether this would prompt similar rules changes [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Kids who are turned off by math often say they don’t enjoy it, they aren’t good at it and they see little point in it. Who knew that could be a formula for success? The nations with the best scores have the least happy, least confident math students, says a study by [...]
This past weekend marked the successful culmination of another NYSML (New York State Mathematics League). During the opening ceremony this year, multiple speakers made references to Thomas Friedman’s book The World is Flat. The premise of this book is that the information explosion that has happened in the last 10 years has transformed the business [...]
