In Slovakia, we have a tradition of correspondence math competitions where the math problems are embedded in (extremely simple) stories. Do similar things exist in English-speaking countries? If yes, please give me some links.
Here is an example https://pikomat.sk/s/archiv but you would have to translate the PDF documents, not sure how difficult that is.
I’ve never met this in the Russian math Olympiad tradition, would be glad to give you something similar, but I don’t believe it exists… Журнал «Квантик» could be of interest if you by chance know Russian
Thank you! I am familiar with both “Kvant” and “Kvantik”, though I haven’t read them for a long time.
I was asking specifically for English language sources, because it is a repeated experience that I find someone online asking (in English) about good sources of math problems for their kids, and I am like “of course, they could simply download the entire archive of… oops, that’s not in English”.
Someone should make a pirate edition of educational sources for children. Like Retro Learning Pack, but with e-books instead of computer games. Multilingual. The books would be converted to AsciiDoc or whatever format, so you just translate the plain text, commit the translation, and it gets automatically compiled to PDF and EPUB.
I’ve seen competitive programming problems are often embedded in funny stories, for example Forest of Celery and more generally most ICPC-related problems. However, I haven’t seen the same for competitive math problems.
The closest I can think of off the top of my head is a fair number of math puzzles involving absurdities such as killing an infinite number of prisoners and colorful hats, like “infinite number of prisoners and hats” puzzle.
In Slovakia, we have a tradition of correspondence math competitions where the math problems are embedded in (extremely simple) stories. Do similar things exist in English-speaking countries? If yes, please give me some links.
Here is an example https://pikomat.sk/s/archiv but you would have to translate the PDF documents, not sure how difficult that is.
I’ve never met this in the Russian math Olympiad tradition, would be glad to give you something similar, but I don’t believe it exists… Журнал «Квантик» could be of interest if you by chance know Russian
Thank you! I am familiar with both “Kvant” and “Kvantik”, though I haven’t read them for a long time.
I was asking specifically for English language sources, because it is a repeated experience that I find someone online asking (in English) about good sources of math problems for their kids, and I am like “of course, they could simply download the entire archive of… oops, that’s not in English”.
Someone should make a pirate edition of educational sources for children. Like Retro Learning Pack, but with e-books instead of computer games. Multilingual. The books would be converted to AsciiDoc or whatever format, so you just translate the plain text, commit the translation, and it gets automatically compiled to PDF and EPUB.
I’ve seen competitive programming problems are often embedded in funny stories, for example Forest of Celery and more generally most ICPC-related problems. However, I haven’t seen the same for competitive math problems.
The closest I can think of off the top of my head is a fair number of math puzzles involving absurdities such as killing an infinite number of prisoners and colorful hats, like “infinite number of prisoners and hats” puzzle.
Edit: Made links clickable.
Do you mean word problems?
Yes, but in a funny way, as an extracurricular activity.