Wes Carroll Tutoring & Coaching Blog
Podcast – 01: Peyton’s great score
Welcome to the podcast! Here are the rules, and the first puzzle. // Mr. Patrick teaches math to 15 students. He was grading tests and ...
Stanley Kaplan, RIP
I have plenty of criticisms of what's taught under the Kaplan name these days, but there's no denying that, love it or hate it, the ...
Team Codex Goes Down
...as my team, Beginner's Luck, wins the 2009 MIT Mystery Hunt in 63 hours, 2 minutes. Check out some snarky and fun coverage of the ...
Some Call It The Brain Olympics
...but I call it the MIT Mystery Hunt. (I also call it my January vacation.)Wish me luck. If you see that "Beginner's Luck" won in ...
Using Game Theory To Beat The SAT
Sure enough, game theory is a useful tool to have in one's toolbox when setting out to ace the SAT. This short article does a ...
I Don’t Care Whether You’re Smart. I Only Care How Hard You Try
Carol Dweck hits the nail on the head. You might think that "you're so smart!" is a good thing to say to someone. You'd be ...
I’ve Been Busy!
Gentle readers: It's been a busy autumn.* The math team is doing quite well; we have 44 points out of 60 on the CAML moving ...
Welcome To The Team, Coach
Just a quick announcement that Urban High School of San Francisco has started a math competition team this year, with yours truly as the coach ...
Problem Of The “Every So Often”
An interesting problem came up in conversation with a College Preparatory School freshman the other day, so I thought I'd share it with you: 100! ...
Math Books I Recommend You Read
Hello from vacation! New York City, as it happens. I'm spending the summer emphatically not working, but that doesn't mean I can't enjoy a little ...
