What follows is my attempt at creating worksheets that produce problems like math contest problems. This is not easy to do as most math contests pride themselves on offering original problems to challenge students, so it is difficult to find "families" of problems that can be algorithmically generated.
In most problems you see Answer followed by a ? . Replace the ? with the answer you come up with. On hitting enter, the page should grade your submitted answer.
Most ideas for these pages originated with MATHCOUNTS minis videos at [url]http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Videos/index.php?type=minis[/url], MAA Curriculum Inspiration video based off AMC competitions at [url]http://www.maa.org/math-competitions/teachers/curriculum-inspirations[/url], Art of Problem Solving videos at [url]http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Videos/index.php[/url], Art of Problem Solving Books at [url]http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Store/curriculum.php[/url] or Dr. Hopkins' work with hosting competitions written by [url]http://mathleague.org[/url]. Art of Problem Solving also has a free resource known as Alcumus, [url]http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/liz/Alcumus/index.php[/url], which teaches some of this material and presents problems about it.
Many math contests exist. You can find many of them at [url]https://sites.google.com/site/sbumathcon/home/other-math-contests[/url].
Dr. Hopkins has been interested in contests for years, even running a camp called Math Contest Camp. 2018 will be the 13th year of this camp. You can find information about 2018 at [url]https://sites.google.com/site/sbumathcon/math-contest-camp-2018[/url]. Check the camp website for more information.
If you have other suggestions for families of problems to include, please email those to Dr. Hopkins, khopkins@sbuniv.edu . If there is a source of the problem, or a source of an explanation for the problem, please send me that as well so I can include it with the worksheet. Also, please report any errors. If you think you have entered a correct answer and the worksheet says it is incorrect, please take a screenshot of this and email it to me. There may be a special case in the worksheet that I failed to account for and so the worksheet doesn't operate in that special case.
It is also possible that I just did the problem wrong and only thought I was correct. This was certainly unintentional. In math, no one chooses to do a problem wrong. We may do it wrong because we misread the problem, made a careless error, are trying to mislead someone (which I am not) or some other reason. In life that is not always the case. We unfortunately make poor decisions to do something wrong knowing full well we are doing something wrong (and ignoring the possible consequences of that action). God knew this was possible and I believe He has provided a way for us to deal with that problem. For my explanation of that solution, you can view a Facebook video of a presentation of that: [url]https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=569730479736877&set=vb.417886931587900&type=3&theater[/url] (you do have to be logged into Facebook to view this video).
