Summer Camp

Hi,

Here is a short description and curriculum for the Junior Math Summer Camp:

This course is intended for students that want to participate in the AMC8 contest. Previous experience with the Gauss contest or AMC8 would be useful, but not mandatory.

Curriculum:

Combinatorics:

  • Permutations
  • Combinations
  • Word rearrangements
  • Casework
  • Complementary counting

Algebra:

  • Ratios and Percentages
  • Algebraic manipulations and Equations
  • Speed, Distance, Time
  • Sequences
  • Telescoping
  • Mean, Median, Mode

Number Theory:

  • Primes and Divisibility
  • Factors
  • GCD and LCM
  • Diophantic Equations
  • Modular Arithmetic

Geometry:

  • Angle Chasing
  • Triangles
  • Quadrilaterals
  • Circles
  • Similar Triangles
  • Areas and Lengths

Hi,

Here is the Math Summer Camp Intermediate Curriculum and course description:

This course is intended to students that want to participate in AMC10/12 contests. Previous experience with contest like AMC8 and/or contests organised by U of Waterloo for grades 8/9/10 is strongly recommended.

Combinatorics:

  • Permutations and Combinations
  • Probability
  • Casework
  • Principle of Inclusion Exclusion
  • Stars and Bars
  • Geometric Probabilities

Algebra:

  • Algebraic manipulations
  • Arithmetic and Geometric Sequences
  • Special Sequences
  • Median, Mean, Mode
  • Systems of Equations
  • Speed, Distance, Time

Number Theory:

  • Primes and Factors
  • Divisibility and Legendre’s Formula
  • LCM, GCD
  • Modular Arithmetic
  • Bases of numeration

Geometry:

  • Angle Chasing
  • Special Triangles
  • Similar Triangles
  • Quadrilaterals
  • Circles
  • Polygons
  • 3D geometry

Hi,

Here is the Summer Math Camp Senior Curriculum 

This course is intended for advanced students who want to participate in AMC10/12 and/or COMC, AIME level contests. Previous experience with AMC10 and/or contest organised by U of Waterloo for grades 10 and higher or strongly recommended.

Combinatorics:

  • Combinatorial Identities
  • Stars and Bars
  • Geometric Counting
  • Geometric Probability
  • Expected Value
  • Recursion

Algebra:

  • Polynomial Roots
  • Vieta’s Formulas
  • The Rational Root Theorem
  • Complex numbers
  • Systems of Equations
  • Speed, Distance, Time

Number Theory:

  • Algebraic Number Theory
  • Diophantine Equations
  • Fermat’s Little Theorem, Wilson’s Theorem
  • Chinese Lemma of Remainders
  • Bases of Numerations

Geometry:

  • Concurrence theorems
  • Important lines in triangles
  • Circles, Power of a point, Radical axes, Cyclic quadrilaterals
  • Trigonometry and its use in geometry