Math Olympiad for Elementary School Students
Math Olympiad for Elementary School Students is a CTY Online for kids in grade 5-6 with qualifying math scores on the SCAT and completion of grade 4 math. The course lasts 3 months and its course code is OL1.
Course Description
From the CTY Online catalog:
This Math Olympiad course is designed to teach the major strategies of problem solving, to foster mathematical creativity, and to stimulate enthusiasm and love for the types of problems that students encounter in competitive mathematics. Each week students explore a different math topic or problem-solving strategy in depth and practice non-routine contest problems. The web-based virtual classroom provides interactive experiences for students. Students and instructors meet weekly in the virtual classroom for problem solving, clarification of concepts, and group sessions.
Each topic covered in the course is independent of the other topics. One topic is taught a week on a continuous repeating basis. Students will not necessarily start with "Topic 1" in their first week of enrollment, but all topics will be covered in a 3-month enrollment. When all topics are covered, a student then takes the final exam.
Topics include:
- Drawing a Picture or Diagram
- Using Deduction
- Elementary Number Theory
- Simplification
- Finding a Pattern
- Making an Organized List
- Making a Table
- Using Number Operations
- Working Backwards
- Basic Geometry
- Estimation and Elimination
