All About Math Olympiad Training & Questions

[jongmail]

Hi,


My son is clever in math but he really wants to go to a good secondary school when he grows up.Any math olympiad books you can reconmmend it to me.Thks! :celebrate:

[optimistforum]

Hi


I have purchased the Terry Chew Books. They are very useful. The following link shows the books and sample pages:

http://sapgrp.com/shop/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1&zenid=b28ce184a987f44bda4f524b51ee13e3&keyword=olym

[mjl]

My daughter is very exasperated! The book 'Olympiad Maths Trainer 6' by Terry Chew has tonnes of mistakes. At last count, she has spotted 30 inaccuracies in questions and answers, as well as ambiguities! :stupid: She expected more as she is still doing the questions . . .


Has anyone faced the same frustration with the other series like Olympiad Maths Trainer 1 to 5?

[Maple leaf]

mjl:

My daughter is very exasperated! The book 'Olympiad Maths Trainer 6' by Terry Chew has tonnes of mistakes. At last count, she has spotted 30 inaccuracies in questions and answers, as well as ambiguities! :stupid: She expected more as she is still doing the questions . . .


Has anyone faced the same frustration with the other series like OGlympiad Maths Trainer 1 to 5?

Really? I almost got the Terry Chew's book but DH got the Longman's one. Wonder which one is better? :?

[verykiasu2010]

Understand a K2 kid (next year P1) is currently training for SMO junior !!


Incredible ! Whose kid huh ?

[Pen88n]

verykiasu2010:

Understand a K2 kid (next year P1) is currently training for SMO junior !!


Incredible ! Whose kid huh ?

Huh??? Either the parent is \"ultimate kiasu\" (verykiasu, you lose to this one who might have drill and drill from young), or that kid is a super genius (usually even super genius need kiasu parent to know how to prepare him for such thing).

Actually, why need to attend K2 / P1 - go direct to upper pri will do. Better still, homeschool to prepare him for uni :lol:

[sleepy]

I wonder whether Maths Olympiad training provided by school (conducted by external vendor) is sufficient training?


Only 12 lessons. Parents co-pay. Fees are cheap though.

[Vanilla Cake]

mjl:

My daughter is very exasperated! The book 'Olympiad Maths Trainer 6' by Terry Chew has tonnes of mistakes. At last count, she has spotted 30 inaccuracies in questions and answers, as well as ambiguities! :stupid: She expected more as she is still doing the questions . . .

Just a suggestion, why don't you write to the publisher to notify them about the inaccuracies in questions and answers, as well as ambiguities so that they can be rectified and clarified?

[verykiasu2010]

sleepy:

I wonder whether Maths Olympiad training provided by school (conducted by external vendor) is sufficient training?


Only 12 lessons. Parents co-pay. Fees are cheap though.

insufficient

[mjl]

Vanilla Cake:

Just a suggestion, why don't you write to the publisher to notify them about the inaccuracies in questions and answers, as well as ambiguities so that they can be rectified and clarified?

Hi Vanilla Cake,

If it is 1 or 2 mistakes, it's okay to write in. For your info, I did write to the author for one of the first few mistakes that we discovered. There were some \"ding-dongs\" as the author could not see my point initially and he thought I could not understand his question so he explained further, but eventually he saw my point and agreed there was a mistake and said he would amend in the next version. You see, 1 question already took up much of my time and effort. For 50 or more mistakes (my daughter did about half the book and already found 30 mistakes, so she has expected a lot more), it is just not worth our effort and time to notify the publisher (unless we are paid to check for errors in the book :lol:, this is the author's and publisher's jobs) !!