Recently, French mathematician Cedric Villani's team came up with '21 measures for the teaching of Mathematics'. I read through the report, with great curiosity. I happily noted that Cheenta's Thousand Flowers program has already implemented some of his recommendations.
Pythagoras theorem can be extended! What happens if the triangle is obtuse-angled (instead of right-angled?) We explore the idea by using a problem from Math Olympiad.
Problem Let ABC be an acute-angled triangle, let D, F be the mid-points of BC, AB respectively. Let the perpendicular from F to AC and the perpendicular at B to BC meet in N. Prove that ND is equal to circum-radius of ABC. Theorems and tools The discussion uses the following Theorems: Midpoint Theorem: The line […]
Problem In a quadrilateral $ABCD$. It is given that $AB=AD=13$, $BC=CD=20$, $BD=24$. If $r$ is the radius of the circle inscribable in the quadrilateral, then what is the integer close to $r$? Hint 1: First, notice that the quadrilateral is a kite. Diagonals of a kite bisect each other (Prove this!) If $X$ is the point […]
A book is published in three volumes, the pages being numbered from 1 onwards. The page numbers are continued from the first volume to the third. The number of pages in the second volume is 50 more than in the first volume, and the number pages in the third volume is one and a half times that in […]
Problem Suppose (a, b) are positive real numbers such that (a \sqrt{a}+b \sqrt{b}=183 . a \sqrt{b}+b \sqrt{a}=182). Find (\frac{9}{5}(a+b)). Hint 1 This problem will use the following elementary algebraic identity: $(x+y)^3=x^3+y^3+3 x^2 y+3 x y^2$ Can you identify what is x and what is y? Hint 2 background_video_pause_outside_viewport="on" tab_text_shadow_style="none" body_text_shadow_style="none"] Set $x=\sqrt{a}, y=\sqrt{b}$. Then the […]
In this post we have discussed AMC 10A 2018 problem number 13.
Cyclic Quadrilaterals are often important objects in a Geometry problem. Recognizing them can lead to a path to the solution. Pre RMO 2017 Problem 13 Solution is a part of our Pre-RMO problem solving series. Also visit: Math Olympiad Program of Cheenta
Tools in Geometry is very useful for pre regional mathematical olympiad, regional mathematical olympiad as well as I.S.I. & C.M.I entrance.
From the path of falling in love with data and chance. to an examination ISI MStat program is different and unique. We discuss that how ISI MStat program is something more than an exam. We will also discuss how to prepare for the exam.
This is a beautiful problem from ISI MStat 2015 PSB . We provide detailed solution with prerequisite mentioned explicitly .
Try this TOMATO problem from I.S.I. B.Stat Entrance Objective Problem based on a derivative of Function. You may use sequential hints to solve the problem.
Try this beautiful problem based on Probability in game from AMC-10A, 2005. You may use sequential hints to solve the problem.
Try this beautiful problem based on Discontinuity from TOMATO 730 useful for ISI B.Stat Entrance. You may use sequential hints to solve the problem.
Try this beautiful problem from algebra, based on Quadratic equation from AMC-10A, 2005. You may use sequential hints to solve the problem.
Try this beautiful problem from the Pre-RMO, 2019 based on Covex Cyclic Quadrilateral. You may use sequential hints to solve the problem.
Try this beautiful problem from the Pre-RMO, 2017 based on Sides of Quadrilateral. You may use sequential hints to solve the problem.
Try this beautiful problem from PRMO, 2019, problem-19, based on the Ratio of the areas. You may use sequential hints to solve the problem.
Try this beautiful problem from Geometry: Area of the inner square AMC-10A, 2005, Problem-8. You may use sequential hints to solve the problem.