| This course is designed to teach the major strategies of problem solving, to foster mathematical creativity, and to stimulate enthusiasm and love for the types of problems that students encounter in competitive mathematics. Students explore math topics and strategies in depth, and practice non-routine contest problems. The Web-based whiteboard provides interactive experiences for students. Students and instructors meet on the whiteboard for problem solving, clarification of concepts, and group sessions.
- Guess and Check
- Draw a Picture or Diagram
- Make a Table
- Make an Organized List
- Elimination
- Simplification
- Substitution
- Working Backwards
- Estimation
- Number Sense
- Deductive Reasoning
- Basic Algebraic Processes
- Basic Processes of Geometry
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