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Hello everyone, we have a brand new contest rolling over at Sol’s blog wildaboutmath.com!

This time around The Art of Problem Solving folks have donated several $25 gift certificates that can be used in their bookstore! I believe they have a few international distributors as well. I encourage you to check out their site. The authors range from talented math wizards that obtain the sole perfect score on the American High School Mathematics Examination (AHSME), members of numerous academic Olympiad teams, and won numerous trophies. Now they want to help young kids to obtain those dreams too. From the site:

We were the kids who wanted to win the trophies. We worked hard and became the kids who won the trophies. The trophies are in attics now. The problem-solving skills, the love of mathematics, and the friendships forged with peers with similar interests remain. We’ve applied the skills we’ve developed through mathematics to a variety of fields in college, then in the professional world.

Now we’ve returned to our starting point - the student in a room, chewing on a pencil, staring at a question, giving up, reading the answer, and thinking. . . This time you are the student. We are building this site for you, to provide a resource you can turn to.

Now head on over to Sol’s new Monday Math Madness Challenge. If you decide to submit an answer, please state if you were referred by blinkdagger. We’re trying to keep some simple logistics on how things are panning out.

Another Contest for MATLABers

For those faithful MATLAB readers of our blog, a new MATLAB contest just came out today. Encourage you all to take a look at their 17th contest: Wiring Circuits. You don’t need to know anything about circuitry. All you need to know is how to connect dots the most efficient way under certain constraints. The contest runs for 7 days.