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Links

This page contains various links which can be of interest to SchoolPlus parents and teachers -- links to to other organizations, olympiads, books and online resource

Books

Some of these books can be freely downloaded online; others can be ordered from Amazon or other online vendors.

• Singapore textbook series Singapore Math
• Russian textbook series by L. Peterson (in Russian)
• Books by Martin Gardner. All of them are great. For younger children, take a look at My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles; for older children, The Colossal Book of Mathematics is highly recommended.
• Books by Raymond Smullyan, a master of logic puzzles. In particular, Lady or the Tiger?, WHAT IS THE NAME OF THIS BOOK?, and The Riddle of Scheherazade are highly recommended.

In addition, a good list of recommended books can be found at the web site The Art of Problem Solving.

A large collection of Russian-language books is available online from the library of Independent Universtiy of Moscow, both classical and recent books. Among the classical books, books by Ya. Perelman and the series Библиотечка физико-математической школы are among the best known. Among newer books, notable titles include

• Малыши и математика, by A. Zvonkin
• Задачи для детей от 5 до 15 лет by V. Arnold
• Алгебра by Gelfand and Shen

Other resources

• Cut the knot -- a site with a lot of interesting problems, puzzles; many of them are done interactively, so you can try them out online.
• Links to pages of virtually all national and international mathematical olympiads.
• The Art Of Problem Solving. This site contains a number of useful resources: olympiad problems, book recommendations, list of summer programs, and much more.
• Math. problems database (in Russian), including various olympiad problems and more. Probably the greatest collection of math problems available online.
• Another database of olympiad problems (in Russian)
• Math circles in Independent University of Moscow (in Russian)
• Collections of math problems used in the famous Moscow math. school No. 57 (in Russian): here (scroll down to items 18,19)

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