New Mexico Mathematics Contest Problem Book - Softcover

Liong-Shin Hahn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826335349 ISBN 13: 9780826335340

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, 2005

Synopsis

The New Mexico Mathematics Contest for high-school students has been held annually since 1966. Each November, thousands of middle- and high-school students from all over New Mexico converge to battle with elementary but tricky math problems. The 200 highest-scoring students meet for the second round the following February at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque where they listen to a prominent mathematician give a keynote lecture, have lunch, and then get down to round two, an even more challenging set of mathematical mind-twisters. Liong-shin Hahn is charged with the task of creating a new set of problems each year. In this volume, Hahn has collected the 138 best problems to appear in these contests over the last decades. They range from the simple to the highly challenging -- none are trivial. The solutions contain many clever analyses and often display uncommon ingenuity. His questions are always interesting and relevant to teenage contestants. Young people training for competitions will not only learn a great deal of useful mathematics from this book but, and this is much more important, they will take a step toward learning to love mathematics.

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Liong-Shin Hahn

From the Back Cover

The 138 trickiest math problems to appear in the New Mexico Mathematics Contest over the last decades selected by their original creator.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826335349
• ISBN 13: 9780826335340
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 214