Editors' Preface
Summary
The editors of the New Mathematical Library, in wishing to encourage significant problem-solving at the high school level, have published the following problem collections so far: NML 5 contains all problems proposed through 1960 by the Mathematical Association of America in its annual contests for high school students. NML 11 and NML 12 contain translations of all Eötvös Competition problems through 1928 and their solutions. The present volume is a sequel to NML 5, published at the request of the many readers who enjoyed that book. Sequels to the Hungarian Problem Books are also contemplated by the NML.
The MAA contest is based entirely on the standard high school curriculum and contains forty problems. (Before 1960, there were fifty problems in each contest.) Each Eötvös contest, on the other hand, contains only three problems, also based on the (Hungarian) high school curriculum, but requiring ingenuity and often rather deep investigation for their solution.
The MAA is concerned primarily with mathematics on the undergraduate level. I t is one of the three major mathematical organizations in America (the other two being the American Mathematical Society, chiefiy Concerned with mathcmatical research, and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, concerned with the content and pedagogy of elementary and secondary mathematics). The MAA also conducts the annual “Putnam Competition” for undergraduate students. Its journal, The American Mathematical Monthly, is famous for its elementary and advanced problem sections.
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- The Contest Problem Book IIAnnual High School Contests 1961-1965, pp. 5 - 6Publisher: Mathematical Association of AmericaPrint publication year: 1966