All About Math Olympiad Training & Questions

[MdmKS]

mathsparks:

haha more free food for students and their parents at the invitation round n prize presentation ceremony on 29May.


At last year's event, HCI also gave a dsa presentation to this group of students followed by a tour of the school.

This was more like a buay-ko-yo session but one of the seniors told a story about that auditorium n the \"presence\" associated with it which scared the wits out of ds. :siam: So the session which was supposed to encourage the kids to choose hci sort of backfire. I hope they stop sharing this tale.

Then I heard there exist mainstreamer who got plantinium, applied, went for tests but still did not get selected leh.

[HyperKiasu]

CoffeeCat:

back in my generation, the self-motivation+smart+guidance might be sufficient but probably not so now. As with all academic competitions, the level of difficulty is almost proportional to time. Now the unofficial smops syllabus includes concepts and applications either beyond the primary maths syllabus (a bit of secondary and a tiny bit of jc) or not taught in conventional school curriculum. Which is why some of the nonroutine and harder questions can stump even some of our primary school teachers.


I know there are tuition centres that offer math Olympiad training by giving students past papers to practice ( this is so primitive, what I was subjected to) but the better ones adopt a topical approach to help students to grasp concepts better. This topical approach, coupled with the resources of the centres and experience of capable trainers is what the better mo training courses offer.

Also, even though armed with solution books, a motivated student might still has trouble with certain concepts or not able to understand the model solution or failed to appreciate the underlying principle. If the parent'guidance is good enough then naturally this issue is minimized. If not that's when private trainers or centres come in.

thanks for the explanation....

[HyperKiasu]

mathsparks:

Your eqn is absolutely correct! So, most kids who had MO training do so as their parents are unable to coach them.

Neither able to coach nor able to afford time to coach.....

[CoffeeCat]

HyperKiasu:

mathsparks:

Your eqn is absolutely correct! So, most kids who had MO training do so as their parents are unable to coach them.

Neither able to coach nor able to afford time to coach.....

From your profile isn't your kids quite young? They are better off playing thinking games and doing IQ questions. Some enrichment centres out there are quite good in this respect. Don't use the maths olympiad book for p1-2 though, that series is good for upper pri but not for lower pri.

[HyperKiasu]

CoffeeCat:

HyperKiasu:

[quote=\"mathsparks\"]Your eqn is absolutely correct! So, most kids who had MO training do so as their parents are unable to coach them.

Neither able to coach nor able to afford time to coach.....

From your profile isn't your kids quite young? They are better off playing thinking games and doing IQ questions. Some enrichment centres out there are quite good in this respect. Don't use the maths olympiad book for p1-2 though, that series is good for upper pri but not for lower pri.[/quote]I m geipoh here only for the information leh.....
:lol:

[Almighty]

Anyone can remember the questions asked in SASMO 2010?

[phankao]

Almighty:

Anyone can remember the questions asked in SASMO 2010?

Wei, that is today, leh.

[CoffeeCat]

By the way, the smops results are out already (by yesterday afternoon).

[verykiasu2010]

CoffeeCat:

By the way, the smops results are out already (by yesterday afternoon).

yup. just realised it when i googled it an hour ago

[HyperKiasu]

CoffeeCat:

By the way, the smops results are out already (by yesterday afternoon).

but this is round 1, right? so many platinums/golds/silvers/.....out of duno how many participants in total?