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The March problems are intended to help students prepare for the 2010 camp selection problems, used to choose students to attend our week-long residential training camp in Christchurch in January.

In recent years the camp selection problems have been known as the “September Problems”, as they were made available in September. This year we’re going to trial moving the selection problems earlier in the year, releasing them in July and moving the due date to August. This will allow more time for pre-camp training, building up to Round One of the British Mathematical Olympiad in December.

The solutions will be posted in about two month’s time, but can be obtained before then by email if you write to me with evidence that you’ve tried the problems seriously.

Good luck!

- Chris

(Looking for something more challenging? Try the squad number theory assignment.)

Here are the July problems. Unfortunately, we’re unable to post the May Solutions at this point: we’re in Europe for the 2009 IMO, and don’t seem to have the solutions on our laptops. We’ll post the solutions on our return.

Have fun, and keep those solutions coming in!

Update, 30th July: Here at last are the May solutions. Apologies for the delay.

Hi everyone. Apologies for the delay in producing the June problems and also in responding to those of you who have sent in solutions to the May problems. I’ve had a few unexpected events chew up rather large blocks of my time. However, here at least are the June problems, and the April solutions for you.

From this month forward, the monthly problems will be a selection of problems used in previous sets of “September problems”. This month, it’s four of the easiest problems from 2006.

Michael

The Auckland Mathematical Olympiad was held this afternoon.  Here are the problems, and some solutions!

Hello everyone. Here are the May problems, and the March solutions. Have fun, and keep those solutions coming in!

Hello everyone. Here are the April problems, and also the February solutions. Have fun, and keep those solutions coming!

Michael