2025 Summer Camps

Note: Half-day camps can be combined as full-day camps from 8:30am-5pm.

• Week 1 (07/07-07/11)

  Middle School MathCounts and AMC8 Camp 1

  07/07 to 07/11  5 half day Monday-Friday 1:00pm-4:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 4

  Course Description

  This is the first of two Middle School MathCounts and AMC 8 camps, designed to introduce and develop essential skills, strategies, and practice for the 2025-2026 contests. This camp will primarily focus on Algebra and Geometry, along with problem-solving techniques.

  MathCounts is a national middle school mathematics competition that builds problem-solving skills and fosters achievement through four levels of fun, in-person "bee" style contests. Some students love math. Other students fear math. MATHCOUNTS is the place for both. It provides engaging math programs to U.S. middle school students of all ability levels to build confidence and improve attitudes towards math and problem-solving. 

  The American Mathematics Competitions (AMC) 8 is a 25-question, 40-minute, multiple-choice examination in middle school mathematics designed to promote the development and enhancement of problem-solving skills. The contest is held in November every year and for students in grades 8 and below.
  
  We designed 2-week of summer camps for students to learn the common problem-solving strategies for both competitions and also working on the previous years of tests for practice.  The 2 camps will focus on different topics and use different practice materials. It's best that students can join both camps, but it's also ok to join one of them. 

  Prerequisites: Students have at least completed PreAlgebra; It's better if students have completed or learning Algebra I and Geometry.

  Textbook:

  

  Instructor: Peng Lin;  Manny Norse
  
  

• Week 2 (07/14-07/18)

  Middle School MathCounts and AMC8 Camp 2

  07/14 to 07/18  5 half day Monday-Friday 1:00pm-4:00pm $250/camp Location: 16100 NW Cornell Road Suite 210 Room 4

  Course Description

  This is the second of two Middle School MathCounts and AMC8 camps. aimed at introducing and develop the skills, strategies, and practice for the 2025-2026 year contests. This camp will primarily focus on Number Theory, Probability, and Counting concepts, along with problem-solving techniques.

  MathCounts is a national middle school mathematics competition that builds problem-solving skills and fosters achievement through four levels of fun, in-person "bee" style contests. Some students love math. Other students fear math. MATHCOUNTS is the place for both. It provides engaging math programs to U.S. middle school students of all ability levels to build confidence and improve attitudes towards math and problem-solving. 

  The American Mathematics Competitions (AMC) 8 is a 25-question, 40-minute, multiple-choice examination in middle school mathematics designed to promote the development and enhancement of problem-solving skills. The contest is held in November every year and for students in grades 8 and below.
  
  We designed 2-week of summer camps for students to learn the common problem-solving strategies for both competitions and also working on the previous years of tests for practice.  The 2 camps will focus on different topics and use different practice materials. It's best that students can join both camps, but it's also ok to join one of them. 

  Prerequisites: Students have at least completed PreAlgebra; It's better if students have completed or learning Algebra I and Geometry.

  Textbook:

  

  Instructor: Peng Lin;  Manny Norse
  
  

2025 Winter/Spring Classes

• C5: MathCounts II - State and National Level

  02/08 to 06/07  16 Classes Saturday 5:00pm-7:00pm $765/term No classes on Mar. 22 and May 24.Location: Online12

  Course Description

  MathCounts is a national middle school mathematics competition that builds problem-solving skills and fosters achievement through four levels of fun, in-person "bee" style contests. The four levels of MathCounts competitions are School, Regional, State, National, from easy to hard. This class is to prepare competitive students for the state and national level of MathCounts competition.

  The focus of this class is on test-taking strategies and critical thinking skills. Most students have the basic knowledge they need to take the competition, so our philosophy is to help students in the other requirements of the competition, namely, accuracy and speed.

  Prerequisites: Students have completed AGS II or Algebra I and Geometry. For great achievements in the competitions, students find that AoPS Algebra and Geometry class helps to build up the foundation along with this competition class.

  Note: The class materials used for this class are not repeated in 2 years. So students may join this class multiple times in 2 years to refine their competition skills.

  Instructor: Peng Lin
  
  

• Competition Event: Oregon Math Circle ARML Team Sign up

  10/28 to 04/20  2 Contest Saturday 9:00am-8:00pm $100/Annual Team Fee Oregon Math Circle ARML team meeting is hosting once a month on Saturdays

  Event Description

  We are sponsoring the Oregon Math Circle ARML team meetings, which take place once a month on Saturdays from October to March. The Annual Oregon Math Circle ARML teams' local competition will be hosted in April.

  The 2025 National ARML Competition will be held in May 2025. We anticipate opening registration in March 2025, with a registration deadline in late of April.

  The American Regions Mathematics League (ARML), is an annual, national high school mathematics team competition held simultaneously at four locations in the United States: the University of Iowa, Penn State, University of Nevada, Reno, and the University of Alabama in Huntsville.^[1] Past sites have included San Jose State University, Rutgers University, UNLV, Duke University, and University of Georgia.

  Teams consist of 15 members, which usually represent a large geographic region (such as a state) or a large population center (such as a major city). Some schools also field teams. The competition is held in June, on the first Saturday after Memorial Day.

  In 2022, 120 teams competed with about 1800 students.^[2]

  ARML problems cover a wide variety of mathematical topics including algebra, geometry, number theory, combinatorics, probability, and inequalities. Calculus is not required to successfully complete any problem, but it may facilitate solving the problem more quickly or efficiently. While part of the competition is short-answer based, there is a cooperative team round, and a proof-based power question (also completed as a team). ARML problems are harder than most high school mathematics competitions.

  Instructor: Shreyan Paliwal;  Anay Aggarwal;  Manny Norse