Math Olympiad Contest Problems For Elementary And Middle Schools

This book is a comprehensive collection of challenging mathematics problems. The book was designed to serve as an excellent guide to learning mathematics for elementary and middle school students, as well as a useful teaching tool for teachers and the parents of homeschoolers.

The main body of the book contains eighty Olympiad question sets of five questions each, hints for each question, answers and detailed solutions. The appendices in the book are a resource of mathematics concepts, including fractions, factors and exponents.

Math Olympiad Contest Problems For Elementary And Middle Schools contains 400 challenging problems along with hints for solving them as well as full solutions. Some of the concepts involve sequences, series, variation, divisibility properties for special numbers, magic squares, combinations and permutations and cryptarithms.

Many readers of this journal have had their students participate or have themselves participated in various mathematics contests over the years. The Math Olympiad, an interschool competition, is one of the better-known mathematics competitions in the country. This book is specially designed to help students prepare for this competition.

Math Olympiad Contest Problems For Elementary And Middle Schools is written by Dr George Lenchner. This is the revised and updated edition (Rev Upd edition) published by Glenwood Pubns Inc. in 1996. The book is available in paperback.

Key Features:

• Like the Moems program itself, this book is an excellent resource for maths students in grades 4-8.
• This book was authored and compiled by Dr George Lenchner over a sixteen-year period 1979-1995 for the Math Olympiads for Elementary and Middle Schools (Moems).