Advice appreciated, criticism

collegealum314
Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:08:39 +0000

Hampshire College has a cool summer program in math. You might want to check it out. They teach it differently than is normally taught in school, and it helps your problem-solving ability. It’s probably the most well-known program of its kind for this type of math problem solving.

[url=http://www.hcssim.org/]HCSSiM[/url]

It probably would help you in these math contests as well, or at least expose you to the type of thinking that is required to be good at them.

CTY is also something to check out, though I think they require you to take the SAT. They have a 3 week program in the summer where you take an entire high school honors class. You learn what’s in an entire textbook in 3 weeks. Very intense.

Also, there are classes on-line (Art of Problem Solving–google it) where you can learn more contest-y math, but I don’t know if you finances are an issue.