purple comet

5/6 Purple Comet Day - VRG

4 minute read

Where we last left off:  The Purple Comet math contest wasn’t well aligned this year with our schedule. It ran from  Tue - Fri over a period of time that onl...

Good Problem but Guessable

3 minute read

Last week as usual I scanned through the Purple Comet problems looking for interesting one this year.  I’m usually drawn to geometry problems but this Algebr...

4/16 Purple Comet Online Contest

7 minute read

Three years ago I discovered the Purple Comet contest @ purplecomet.org.  It has close links to the AwesomeMath  and I really liked the problems in the old t...

4/3 Spring is Sprung

3 minute read

The last few weeks I’ve been concentrating on arranging the topics up to the last MOEMS Olympiad. This week I looked forward enough to realize that first Spr...

4/21 Purple Comet Online Meet

6 minute read

This week of math club we tried out the online Purple Comet Math Contest. http://purplecomet.org. Running the contest required a few modifications to our nor...

4/7 Spring Quarter Starts

2 minute read

Today was the first day of our last quarter for the math club. I lost 2 kids from the winter session that were replaced with 3 new ones. (I’m embarrassed to ...