Purple Comet! Math Meet

"I am a grade 7 student now. I came to know about AwesomeMath through PurpleComet contest the last year. I took online practice tests and realized soon that I need some resources to help me understand strategies to solve hard problems in the contest. I asked my dad to order Purple Comet! Math Meet. This book had detailed solutions for the problems from the past year. I reviewed most of the solutions from this book to prepare for the contest. Our team was #1 in Ontario, Canada thanks to the strategies in the book. We are looking forward to applying more strategies to become the #1 team in Canada this year.

I highly recommend this book to middle school students. It also has solutions for the high school problems. I will start reviewing those this year. I am enjoying the book and I am part of AMSP since the last year. "

This is a great book for middle- and high-school students to practice their math solving skills and prepare for competitions. The book looks at the problems of the first ten years of the Purple Comet competition and offers detailed solutions to each problem. Since this is a team-based competition, there are a lot of problems included in these first ten years. The problems are from areas one usually encounters in math competitions, namely algebra, combinatorics, number theory, geometry/trigonometry, etc. There are features in this book that make it quite useful as a source to train MS and HS students or even for self study. For the solutions, the authors first offer the answer and then the detailed solution, so you can easily first check the answer and re-try, if not correct, without skimming through the full solution. There is also an index at the end of the book that shows in which mathematical area each problem falls. Finally, the authors designate each problem's difficulty in a scale of 1 to 5. These features allow versatility in how one can select to work on problems, either focusing on a certain area with problems of varying difficulty, or across areas with similar level of difficulty. I highly recommend the book from two authors widely known for their experience with math competitions and team coaching.

The Purple Comet! Math Meet is a great online free team math competition. The answer key is also provided online, but not the solution. This book gives detailed solutions for the first 10 years. A lot of the solutions are creative and help the student to understand different topics in middle school and high school competition. It is a great book not only to prepare for the Purple Comet Math Meet, but also to learn math knowledge.