Free AMC8 Advanced/MATHCOUNTS Course
These classes will help you master the concepts required for AMC 8, and other math competitions like MATHCOUNTS and AMC 10!
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Please make sure to watch all the AMC 8 Fundamentals Class Videos as those fundamentals will be required for the classes below.
What does the program include?
Free Classes
These classes will expand your problem-solving ability and teach you many new concepts and how to apply them to challenging AMC and MathCounts problems! The class recordings will be available to review after the class.
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Each class will also have several raffle prizes, and the winners will be chosen randomly from the attendee list.
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Competition with prizes!
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​The competition will consist of many interesting and original problems for everyone to solve! We will go over the solutions to all of the problems so everyone will learn how to solve them. Winners of the competition will get prizes thanks to our sponsors! Anyone can participate in the competition however only students in 8th grade or lower are eligible to win prizes.
Prizes and Raffles
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Amazon Gift Cards
Amazon provides the earth's biggest selection of books, music, DVDs, electronics, computers, and more. The top 5 winners will be given Amazon Gift cards valued $30, $25, $20, $15, $10.
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Daily Challenge Courses from Po-Shen Loh
Daily Challenge Courses include interactive videos taught by a world-renowned mathematician, with engaging embedded questions, novel practice problems, periodic exams, and score reports
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Brilliant Premium Subscriptions
Brilliant helps to build quantitative skills in math, science, and computer science with fun and challenging interactive explorations. All of their courses are crafted by award-winning teachers, researchers, and professionals from MIT, Caltech, Duke, Microsoft, Google, and more, with these principles of learning in mind.
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Art of Problem Solving Gift Certificates
Art of Problem Solving creates educational materials for motivated students in grades 2–12. Their books, classes, and online resources help students become creative, successful problem solvers.
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WolframAlpha Notebook Edition
Wolfram|Alpha Notebook Edition combines the best of both Wolfram|Alpha and Mathematica into a single, unified tool perfect for teaching and learning.
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Maple Student Licenses
Maple is math software that combines the world's most powerful math engine with an interface that makes it extremely easy to analyze, explore, visualize, and solve mathematical problems.
With AMC 8 competition in November, and many math competitions only a few months away, we are offering this free program for students to master the AMC 8 and also prepare for contests like MathCounts and AMC 10!
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This free program took place over the course of 5 weeks every Saturday from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm Pacific time (7:00-8:30pm EST) starting October 10th, 2020.
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Classes
Here is a schedule and curriculum of the classes:
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Week 1 (Saturday, October 10, 2020)
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Combinatorics (Casework/Complementary Counting/Probability, Recursion, Stars and Bars)
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Prerequisites: To understand the fundamentals of combinatorics, please make sure to watch these 3 videos first:
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OmegaLearn AMC/MATHCOUNTS Class 1 Video
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Raffle Prize Winners:
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​Theenash S
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Rishabh S
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Felix D
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Asher W
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Week 2 (Saturday, October 17, 2020)
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Algebra (Sequences & Series, System of Equations)​​
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Prerequisites: Please make sure to watch these 2 videos first:
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OmegaLearn AMC/MATHCOUNTS Class 2 Video​
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Raffle Prize Winners:
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Kyle H
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Nicolas C
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Sarah H
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Alex M
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Week 3 (Saturday, October 24, 2020)
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Number Theory (Algebraic Number Theory, Misc. Number Theory Problems)
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Saturday, October 24, 4:00-5:30 pm PST (7:00-8:30 pm EST)
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Prerequisites: Please make sure to watch these 3 videos first:
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Raffle Prize Winners:
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Rishi G
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Chaaruhaas K
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Christina Z
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Akshaj A
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Week 4 (Saturday, October 31, 2020)
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Geometry (Angle Chasing, 3D Geometry,)​​
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Saturday, October 31 4:00-5:30 pm PST (7:00-8:30 pm EST)
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Prerequisites: Please make sure to watch these 3 videos first:
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Raffle Prize Winners
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​Ankita R
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Ritvik R
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Jianyu W
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Alvin C
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Special AMC 8 Review and Strategies Session (Friday, November 6, 2020)
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Friday, November 6, 4:00-5:30 pm PST (7:00-8:30 pm EST)
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Review of all the concepts and formulas that are essential for the AMC 8 contest. We also discussed many useful strategies and tips to excel in the test.
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OmegaLearn AMC 8 Review Session Video​
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We have created a comprehensive handout which includes all the important formulas needed for the AMC 8 and other math contests.
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AMC 8 Formulas and Strategies Handout
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Week 5 (Saturday, November 7, 2020)
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Competition (Live Kahoot to test skills on concepts learned in all the classes!)
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Saturday, November 7, 4:00-5:30 pm PST (7:00-8:30 pm EST)
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Competition Video
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​Competition Problem​s
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Kahoot Link
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Problem Solutions Video
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Problem Review Session
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Sunday, November 8, from 1-2pm PST (4-5pm EST)
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Prof Po-Shen Loh, professor at Carnegie Mellon University, founder of Expii, and the coach for the USA IMO team will do a problem review session for the contest.
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Prof Loh will review some selected problems from the competition. You will need to register for this session at Daily Challenge with Po-Shen Loh.
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Problem Review Session and Award Ceremony
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Sunday, November 8, 4:00-5:30 pm PST (7:00-8:30 pm EST)
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Problem Review Session and Award Cermony
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This session covered solutions to all the competition problems
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We also raffled some prizes, and announced the honorable mentions and winners
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​Raffle Winners
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Aryan G.
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Lerchen Z.​
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Abhinav S.
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Competition Winners
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1st Place: Feodor Y.​
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2nd Place: Vincent L.
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3rd Place: Jiahe L.
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4th Place: Benjamin J.
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5th Place: Ray Z.
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Class Feedback Form
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If you attended any class or watched the videos, please provide some feedback. This will help us improve the class, and motivate us to offer more classes.
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