🦫 Upstate NY Math Team: Sunday Training

Japheth Wood

Apr 17, 2025

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Upstate New York Math Team

Mathematical Problem Solving

Dear Upstate New York Math Team,

Important reminder - we have a practice this Sunday morning, 9am to 10am. Join us!

Our Team Selection Committee is still working on applications to join our ARML team. I think they’ll finish up by this weekend. We currently have enough applications to form a strong A Team. It looks like we’ll be able to field a full B team, but we are very thin on alternates. Given that, we’ve kept the application form open, just in case another student applies. You can find the link below.

ARML for us will continue to be at Penn State in State College, Pennsylvania on May 30 and 31. The ARML organizers have opened a new site in New Hampshire which will draw many of the teams that are east of us away from the Penn State site.

We had a great time at NYSML on April 5. Upstate students are spread across many teams, and it was a nice opportunity to reconnect. Here are the 2025 NYSML Problems and Team Results (NYC won the A Division and the Albany Area Math Circle won the B Division).

See you on Sunday morning!

Sincerely,

Japheth

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Japheth Wood is a coach for the Upstate New York Math Team and also a math professor at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.

^*For ARML purposes, Upstate New York refers to that part of New York State which lies outside of Long Island, New York City, and Westchester County. Are you not an Upstate New Yorker? We welcome you to join us at our training sessions.

Application for the Upstate New York Math Team 2025 ARML Team

Apply!

Practices: Talks and Trainings

Team Practice #4 with Coach Villani

Date: Sunday, April 20, 2025

Time: 9:00am - 10:00am

Zoom: https://bard.zoom.us/j/82682517748?pwd=y9JLpHLkj58ZhysTtIzUtHjWBty1ID.1

Description: Our penultimate practice session before ARML!

Download the handout from Mason’s talk on Generating Functions on March 29:

Mason’s Problems

Mason’s Solutions

Upcoming Events (Upstate events are usually Sundays, 9-10am)

April 20: Team Practice #4 with Coach Villani

May 18: Team Practice #5 with Coach Villani

We are adding Upstate talks and trainings, so please keep your Sundays, 9-10am free and some Saturdays. Some events may be announced very close to the date.

Reminder: Please get ahold of a copy of Paul Zeitz’s Art and Craft of Problem Solving book, which we will use as a common text this year.

Calendar

Friday–Saturday, May 30–31, 2025: ARML at Penn State, State College PA

Opportunities

Go to a math camp this summer! Please browse through these lists.

List of Summer Math Programs Consortium
AOPS list of Mathematics Summer Programs
List of AMS Young Scholars Programs

Many still have spots available. Some programs I’ve had good experiences with, or heard good things about are: I just heard from National Math Camps that they have spots for 11-14 year olds at their new programs. The amazing Bard Math CAMP (which I run) is for 5th to 8th graders. The Williams College Math Camp is relatively close, in western Massachusetts. The Ross Math Program is the oldest program I know of. The New York Math Circle is in Manhattan. Mathily is near Philly. The Hampshire College Summer Studies in Math is my all time favorite. Canada/USA Mathcamp is one of the best. MathPath is for younger students. AwesomeMath is brought to you by the directors of Purple Comet, and includes Coach Babbitt on their faculty.

What are your favorite summer math programs?

Do you know of opportunities of interest to the Upstate New York Math Team members? Please send them our way!

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