New Zealand Maths Olympiad Committee online

With one IMO concluded – and so successfully for New Zealand! – it’s time to start thinking about the next.

Our first step in choosing the team to represent New Zealand at the 2011 IMO in Amsterdam is to choose 24 students to attend a week long training camp in Christchurch in January. These students will be chosen using the 2010 Camp Selection Problems (pdf, 105kb). Read more »

Here are the June problems and the April solutions. We expect to post the camp selection “July Problems” in late July.

Have fun!

– Chris

Here are

• the May problems;
• some hints for the April problems; and
• the solutions to the March problems.

Have fun!

- Chris

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

Here are the April Problems. I’m a bit late with these, sorry! Solutions in June.

- Chris

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

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.