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Here's this year's set of questions via the IMO website. You have four and a half hours for each set. See if you can solve them:

DAY ONE: 

international mathy olympiad

IMO

DAY TWO: 
international math olympiad

IMO

 

1 posted on 08/14/2013 8:07:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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THE PHILIPS EXETER ACADEMY -- WHAT MOST AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOLS SHOULD ASPIRE TO BE LIKE:


2 posted on 08/14/2013 8:09:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Hurts muh head and another day I d’nt yoos algebra...


3 posted on 08/14/2013 8:10:38 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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Reminds me why I changed my major from Physics to Computer Science. My head hurts.


5 posted on 08/14/2013 8:12:37 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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MATH CLASS IS TOUGH
6 posted on 08/14/2013 8:12:41 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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These questions are obviously biased against people of color, how about problems like:

DeShawn has an AK-47 with an 80-round clip. If he misses 6 out of 10 shots and shoots 13 times at each drive-by shooting, how many drive-by shootings can he attempt before he has to reload?


7 posted on 08/14/2013 8:14:38 AM PDT by dfwgator
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What? No Trayvon in the list of winners?


8 posted on 08/14/2013 8:14:57 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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The story is wrong. They didn’t take first, second and third. They won medals from a certain level of performance.


12 posted on 08/14/2013 8:20:27 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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... with competitors from over 100 countries on 9 continents.

Huh?

19 posted on 08/14/2013 8:28:18 AM PDT by Ditto
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23 posted on 08/14/2013 8:33:23 AM PDT by TheBigB (Al Sharpton would scream racism at a bowl of Cheerios.)
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The annual competition is a six question, two day, nine hour proof competition with competitors from over 100 countries on 9 continents.

I'm not a professional mathematician, and geography is not my strong suit either, but when did the planet add two more continents? (and don't even get me started on how Europe and Asia are one contiguous landmass divided by an arbitrary line through the Urals...)
24 posted on 08/14/2013 8:34:18 AM PDT by lump in the melting pot (Communism - a social experiment which, for ethical reasons, should not be performed on live humans)
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How would you like to be the teacher who has to “teach” these students?


31 posted on 08/14/2013 8:43:41 AM PDT by bjc (Show me the data!)
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Extra credit: Prove there are no uninteresting numbers.


35 posted on 08/14/2013 8:47:58 AM PDT by bruin66 (Time: Nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.)
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Lots of surprises on this list:

Better than I would have guessed:

North Korea - 5
Singapore - 6
Vietnam - 7
Mexico - 17

Worse than I would have guessed:

Germany - 27
India - 29
Switzerland - 41
Austria - 48
Sweden - 60
Norway - 72
Denmark - 77

Has the EU adopted something like Common Core?
38 posted on 08/14/2013 8:52:49 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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A propensity for scientific inquiry and excellence may be evenly distributed but mathematics, the queen of the sciences, is one that largely requires little equipment or expensive material. Cultures that don’t possess the wherewithal to fund chemistry labs, cyclotrons and observatories of necessity push scientifically gifted kids towards math. It’s cheap.


42 posted on 08/14/2013 9:00:42 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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Hey - I won the Einstein medal back in high school. ‘Course, I grew up to help write the Obamacare law too ...

Proof: 2 = 1

Let: a = b
Then: a2 = ab
Then: a2 + a2 = a2 + ab
Then: 2a2 = a2 + ab
Then: 2a2 – 2ab = a2 + ab – 2ab
Then: 2a2 – 2ab = a2 – ab
Then: 2(a2 – ab) = 1(a2 – ab)
Then: 2(a2 – ab) / (a2-ab) = 1(a2 – ab) / (a2-ab)

Therefore: 2 = 1

Thank you very much - I am now off to Stockholm to claim my Nobel Prize ...


46 posted on 08/14/2013 9:07:59 AM PDT by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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Philips is part of the elite educational system.

There are two educational systems in the world: elite, and “everybody else”.

New World Order sought and attained control of both, wresting them away from the Church, in efforts that go back centuries.

Most people don’t get the idea: it’s not that NWO directs each and every action of every student at every school. It’s simply about having ultimate control over curriculum, and being able to choose which children get put into the elite system, i.e., keep those who would cause problems for NWO out of the the elite schools, and away from learning things like higher math.

NWO has a great need for highly-educated but dutiful “elite” minions to work on their science and engineering problems. Now, many other folks can also get into science and engineering and work their fool heads off and make good money. But never having been clued in to NWO, they will reliably dismiss it as an untrue conspiracy theory.

The set up and control of “public schools” in America was begun in earnest by George Peabody and continued under Rockefeller. “Dissenting” types, children who exhibit strong affinity for true believing Christianity, anti-unionism, that oppose “the herd”, are simply “tended” by public school teachers until they graduate. The job of their teachers is to simply do nothing: don’t counsel them on higher math or college education. Simply allow those children to undermine their own education by wasting their early years.

NWO’s “job” for publics schools is not to educate “the masses”, but to hold their education back.

Most children in elite schools have no idea about NWO and are not on the “inside track”. Many go on to do nothing all that great.

The NWO financial oligarchy elites, however, do send capable children of their choosing to these elite schools - and they know that the child’s education will not - in their eyes - be “polluted” by any true Christian teaching. It will be a fantastic education for the child to grow up and accomplish difficult tasks for NWO, and part and parcel with that is having a moral foundation dictated by NWO instead of the Bible.


53 posted on 08/14/2013 9:36:09 AM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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