• Select the areas in which the student is most interested, or in which the student needs the most work.
• Both the content and dificulty of each course are very important. Please read the course descriptions carefully.
• All of our courses are challenging and beyond the scope of regular/accelerated/honor classes in school settings. There is an entry level course in each area. Each of these entry level courses will be challenging for most able young minds because these are contest mathematics courses. In particular, Algebra 1.5 is harder than any algebra course (including Algebra 1 and 2) taught in high schools, and Math Counts with Proofs is beyond the requirements for the MathCounts competitions (at state and national levels).

Course Selection Guidelines

• If a student only has MathCounts state level experience, what courses should he/she take?
  Please choose two level 1 courses. We recommend a combination of the students strong subject and his/her weak subject.
• If a students (9th grader or below) AMC10/12 scores are below the qualifying line for AIME, what courses should he/she take?
  Please choose two level 1 courses. We recommend a combination of the students strong subject and his/her weak subject.
• If a students (10th grader or above) AMC10/12 scores are below the qualifying line for AIME, what course should he/she take?
  Please choose one level 1 course, with this being the students weak subject, and one level 2 course, with this being his/her strong subject.
• If a student has an AIME score between 1 and 3, what courses should he/she take?
  Please choose either
  1. two level 1 courses. We recommend a combination of the students strong subject and his/her weak subject; OR
  2. one level 1 course, with this being the students weak subject, and one level 2 course, with this being his/her strong subject.
• If a student has an AIME score between 4 and 7, what courses should he/she take?
  Please choose two level 2 courses. We recommend a combination of the students strong subject and his/her weak subject.
• If a student has an AIME score between 8 and 11, what courses should he/she take?
  Please either
  1. two level 2 courses. We recommend a combination of the students strong subject and his/her weak subject; OR
  2. one level 2 course, with this being the students weak subject, and one level 3 course, with this being his/her strong subject.
• If a student has an AIME score of 12 or above, what courses should he/she take?
  Please choose two level 3 courses. We recommend a combination of the students strong subject and his/her weak subject.
• If a students background does not fall into any of the above, what courses should he/she take?
  Please contact AwesomeMath staff as soon as possible about the students background and interests, and
  we will make a recommendation promptly.
• If a students background falls into to the above categories, but he/she wants to choose the courses not following the guidelines, what should he/she do?
  Please contact AwesomeMath staff via email as soon as possible about the students background and interests, and we will make a recommendation promptly. If there are still questions about our recommendation, the student might be required to take a placement test in the subjects for which he/she is not following our recommendation.

Visit the course descriptions page for a list of courses and sample problems.