GAIM 2024 Competition

Preparation

If your team has not yet explored them, we recommend you view the sample problem set provided on our website. These are the best comparison to the two rounds of problems that will be on the GAIM 2024 Competition. 

For the 2024 Competition Season, we will send three newsletters with instructional material and practice problems to cover the following topics:

  • Problem solving with divisibility

  • Pythagorean Theorem

  • Logic (Liars/Truth tellers, matching up paired items given clues, etc.)

Upon registration, we will also provide you our newsletters and activities from the 2021 and 2022 seasons, covering the following topics:

  • Divisibility by 2, 4, and 8

  • Divisibility by 3, 5, 6, 9, and 10

  • Permutations

  • Combinations without Repetition

  • Combinations with Repetition

  • Permutation/Combinations review (videos)

  • Pascal’s Triangle (videos)

We additionally recommend the following books, in this order:

  1. AoPS Beast Academy Series

  2. The Art of Problem Solving: Volume 1

  3. The Art of Problem Solving: Volume 2

  4. The Moscow Puzzles: 359 Mathematical Recreations

Once you register, you will receive a link to access the Coaches’ Corner, which contains all of our recommendations for maximizing your GAIM experience. We have additional materials there including past GAIM games and activities and third-party resources that we recommend.

Make sure you’re subscribed to our newsletter to receive the new newsletter videos as soon as we release them, or register early as they will become part of our permanent bank of resources in the Coaches’ Corner.