“Counting Questions”

~Mathematics Lecture

Instructor:

Anita Hao

Anita Hao is a grade 10 full IB student at Western Canada High School. In the past few years, Anita’s biggest achievement was actually in music, specifically piano. Apart from piano, Anita is also a very good student who skipped grade 8 and gets extremely high school averages annually. This year, she has studied numerous questions from these American tests. She believes that the math concepts she has categorized this specific contest into will give students a really good grasp of what this contest tests students and which math concepts are most important.

Course outline:

Lecture 1:

  • Counting Basics
  • Casework
  • Complementary Counting and Overcounting

Lecture 2:

  • Counting Sets
  • Counting with Digits
  • Path Counting and Bijections

Lecture 3:

  • Stars and Bars
  • Binomial
  • Counting with Recursion

Lecture 4:

  • Probability (1)
  • Probability (2)
  • Expected Value

Date/Time:

  • October 20, 27 & November 3, 10 (2020)
  • Every Tuesday
  • 8:30PM-9:30PM
  • Total: 4 Lessons

*No fee required

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