What you'll learn
- Long time limit problems
- Geometry
- Algebra
- Number theory
- Combinatorics
Requirements
- AMO
Description
The top performers in the AMO (in Australia) are invited to participate in the Asian Pacific Maths Olympiad. This is the first chance students get to represent their country in an internationally recognised competition whose results are published. There are 5 problems and 4 hours to solve them. It usually happens early March each year. Among the participating countries of interest are the USA (qualifiers from TSTST). Our goal here is to review the previous exams and try to prepare as much as possible. Our focus will be 2013APMO and later but may include earlier ones too.
APMO2020 news: One of our students represented Australia as the equal 7th-10th placed team member and scoring above the Silver Medal Cutoff, received an Honorable mention. This contributed to Australia's team ranking 5th: the highest rank it has ever achieved. Another of our students was (possibly) within two points of this which is on Silver cutoff or just below and would have been a high qualifier on many other countries as well as in Australia on a different year.
Who this course is for:
- Seniors in mathematics
- AMO medalists
- APMO contestants
Course content
- Preview04:07
- 00:16Assumed knowledge (Definition chase) APMO 2004Q1
Instructor
![Dr Michael Sun](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 3.8 Instructor Rating
- 41 Reviews
- 1,942 Students
- 49 Courses
Join me for meaningful learning that will have lasting value.
Much of the content takes a student through the experience of solving a problem from scratch, learning a concept rigorously or applying a concept to a problem. This process is filmed and presented here with basically no editing. To be truly great at maths you cannot just memorise disconnected facts you need to learn how to think and how to learn. For younger students we have the luxury of applying the things we learn in math olympiad problems. I look forward to seeing you in class!
Background
PhD, first in graduating class USA (UOregon)
This is also where I learned to play Basketball.
M.Sc by research, fastest possible with publication, USyd, AUS
B.Sc (Honours), University Medal, all High Distinctions, USyd AUS
ATAR 99.95 NSW Australia
Postdoctoral research fellow Germany (Unimuenster)
Visiting scholar China (ECNU Shanghai)
Research publications and conference attendance.