Problem Solving Strategies For Math Olympiads (Bookzcity)

Further Details About This Book:

This book is an outgrowth of the training of the German IMO team from a time
when we had only a short training time of 14 days, including 6 half-day tests. This
has forced upon us a training of enormous compactness. “Great Ideas” were the
leading principles. A huge number of problems were selected to illustrate these
principles. Not only topics but also ideas were efficient means of classification.
For whom is this book written?
• For trainers and participants of contests of all kinds up to the highest level of
international competitions, including the IMO and the Putnam Competition.
• For the regular high school teacher, who is conducting a mathematics club
and is looking for ideas and problems for his/her club. Here, he/she will find
problems of any level from very simple ones to the most difficult problems
ever proposed at any competition.
• For high school teachers who want to pose the problem of the week, problem
of the month, and research problems of the year. This is not so easy.Many fail,
but some persevere, and after a while they succeed and generate a creative
atmosphere with continuous discussions of mathematical problems.
• For the regular high school teacher, who is just looking for ideas to enrich
his/her teaching by some interesting nonroutine problems.
• For all those who are interested in solving tough and interesting problems.
The book is organized into chapters. Each chapter starts with typical examples
illustrating the main ideas followed by many problems and their solutions. The