A defining memory from my senior year of high school was a nine-hour math exam with just six questions. Six of the top scorers won slots on the U.S. team for the International Math Olympiad (IMO), the ...

A local organisation that provides classes for gifted children, hopes to add to a bank of international math questions used to test young enthusiasts around the world.For the last six years, the ...

Eleven sixth-grade students from South Tahoe Middle School competed this year in the Math Olympiads, a national mathematics competition. Each month for the past five months students at middle schools ...

Frank Morgan of Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., recently illustrated such difficulties when he invited an audience of mathematicians, students, and others to vote on which one of a given pair ...

Olympiads for young children could be a damaging formula, reports Luo Wangshu in Beijing. OK, answer this question. The marines are assigning dorms to new recruits. If each available room is shared by ...

Are you smarter than a high school kid? Right now, you're remembering Gary Matthews, the kid in 11th grade who tried to race his Trans Am against a cop in an unmarked car, and you're thinking, "Yup, I ...

Frank Morgan of Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., recently illustrated such difficulties when he invited an audience of mathematicians, students, and others to vote on which one of a given pair ...