Maine Mathematics Science & Engineering Talent Search

11/18/2021

11/18/2021

MMSETS Problem Solvers! Please send us your questions for the Zoom Office hour discussion!
After answering your questions, we'll fold Francis Ow's six-pointed star!

11/05/2021

Reminder! AMC 10/12A Wednesday, November 10, 2021,
AMC 10/12 B Tuesday, November 16
75-minutes exam; students are allowed to have plain white paper, pencil, compass, and rulers. (amc-reg.maa.org)

The picture shows our folding board of Six-pointed star design by Francis Ow (his instructions are available upon request)

10/23/2021

Register to participate!

AMC 8 Competition in January 2022. AMC 8 of MAA is a 25-question, 40-minute, multiple-choice competition designed to promote the development of problem-solving skills. It helps to develop positive attitudes towards analytical thinking and mathematics that can assist in future careers.
more information (amc-reg.maa.org)

09/26/2021

AMC 10/12 A Wednesday, November 10, 2021
AMC 10/12 B Tuesday, November 16, 2021
more information (amc-reg.maa.org)

The "years of preparation" include seeing geometry patterns in crop planting, billiard games, soccer, positioning transmitting towers, or making herringbone fold for solar panels. If you make a layout on paper, devote time to some abstraction you prepare for AMC competitions. Four months before AMC, look back to your notes and connect to problems from past years' competitions.AMC

09/26/2021

Reminder: AMC 10 and AMC 12
Competitions - Register ASAP

09/22/2021

Today is the autumnal equinox.
Equinox does not have equal day and night. It is several minutes of extra daylight, not just on equinox but every day. Every year, we salute this day by sending out the first MMSETS problem sets for all grade levels on September 22.

09/12/2021

In our programs, we press the role of geometry across grade levels, geometric patterns in elementary number theory, and counting. We offer free sheets of Platonic and Archimedean Solids and their nets. Available upon request, sent pdf format to post on your refrigerator or assembly to start students' journey in geometric patterns found in nature to which the human eye is naturally drawn.

09/06/2021

Share this! Another dimension to like or enjoy Geometry.
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Fun with Euclid Julia Blakely March 10, 2020 Leave a Comment Oliver Byrne, in the introduction to his The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid of 1847, states that “the Elements of Euclid can be acquired in less than one third the time usually employed, and the retention by the memory is much...

08/27/2021

How do you bring math to your dinnertime conversations and spark interest in your children to play math with you?

08/26/2021

It is a hot day today! Sit in the shade, get your domino set, use the four dominoes shown in the first picture to make a square from them that has the same number of dots on each side. The second picture shows the dominos face down. Please send us your solution! Show how do you place the dominos.

08/22/2021

What are your thoughts on this?
In our opinion, to solve problems, one should always use a pencil and notepad.
If a student is enrolled in an online version of a program, listens to a presenter in person or on Zoom, or gets the problems in any other way, drawing diagrams is an important part of visualization students should learn.
A step between text (read or listened to) and the symbolic language of math ( many young children call "math language").