AMC – Mathematical Association of America

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Thinking of Bob Moses

By Keith Devlin @KeithDevlin@fediscience.org, @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social My July 2024 Angle post focused on the newly released documentary movie Counted Out, for which I was pleased to have been an advisor. One of the math educators featured in the film was the legendary Bob Moses, who died in 2021. Moses was someone I always wanted to meet, but somehow...

Civil Society and the Role of Law for our Future

By Michael Pearson As I recently announced on MAA Connect, the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) has joined university presidents and scholarly societies in signing A Call for Constructive Engagement on America's Campuses. The full text of the statement reads: As leaders of America’s colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against...

AIME Thresholds Are Available

Updated January 6, 2025 Congratulations to all AMC 10 / AMC 12 participants! Thank you for joining us this cycle. Scores have been finalized, and the qualifying thresholds for the American Invitational Mathematics Exam (AIME) and other distinctions have been determined: This year the AIME I will take place on February 6, 2025, while the...

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Sample Competition: 2023 AMC 8

Test out your creative problem-solving skills! Try your hand at these problems from the 2023 American Mathematics Competition (AMC) 8 competition. This mathematical competition is for students in grades 8 and below. Interested in more? Purchase collections of past competitions from our store or participate in our next MAA AMC competition.

Sample Competition: 2022 AMC 10 A

Test out your creative problem-solving skills! Try your hand at these problems from the 2022 American Mathematics Competition (AMC) 10 A competition. This mathematical competition is for students in grades 10 and below. Interested in more? You can purchase collections of past competitions from our store or participate in our next MAA AMC competition.

USA Earns First Place at 65th International Mathematical Olympiad

The United States team has secured First Place in the 65th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO)

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Freaky Fraction Splitting

Take a pile of nine pebbles, nine coins, or nine cucumbers (but you can't use zucchini!) and split it into two piles. Then, split each of those piles into two piles. Keep doing this until you have nine piles, each with one object. What could be mathematically astounding about such a process? There is a...