ARML 2020 Practices

2020 ARML: SFBA/NorCal, WWW, and friends

Information about practices will be posted here. Team announcements will be sent out via email. See the email archive for any announcements that you might have missed.

For questions about practices, email moorxu@gmail.com. For questions about anything else, check the website.

Note: ARML will not be held in Las Vegas this year. Instead, we will have ARML Local during the weekend of May 30th and 31st.

Competitions

We are participating in two competitions this year: FARML and ARML Local.

FARML: May 16, 8:30am - 3:00pm Pacific time
ARML Local: May 30, starting at 1:00pm Pacific time

Practices

Practices are weekly, starting in early April and continuing until the end of May. All practices will be held online. Links to practice will be sent out 10 minutes prior to the start of each practice. To subscribe to team emails, including practice links, please sign up at http://mathleague.org/armlapp.php.

We will have practice every Saturday and Sunday, 5pm-7pm Pacific time, every weekend. Each practice will consist of multiple parallel breakout sessions. Each weekend's Saturday and Sunday practices will feature the same content. If you choose to attend both sessions, you may attend different breakout sessions.

Here is a list of tentative practice dates and times:

April 4 and April 5, 5pm-7pm Pacific time
- At this practice, we kicked off online practices with ARML individual, team, and relay rounds.
April 11 and April 12, 5pm-7pm Pacific time
- At this practice, in addition to ARML team and relay rounds, we also had a beginner's session, a countdown round, and a guts round.
April 18 and April 19, 5pm-7pm Pacific time
- At this practice, in addition to some ARML tests, we had a session on Cayley's Theorem for counting labeled trees, and an Introduction to Competitive Programming.
- See the email archive for details.
April 25 and April 26, 5pm-7pm Pacific time
- We held tryouts for our FARML and ARML Local teams at times adjacent to practice:
  - Saturday, April 25, 4pm-5pm Pacific time
  - Sunday, April 26, 7pm-8pm Pacific time
- At this practice, in additional to the usual activities, we had a session on Advanced Topics in Competitive Programming.
May 2 and May 3, 5pm-7pm Pacific time
- We held tryouts for our FARML and ARML Local teams at times adjacent to practice:
  - Saturday, May 2, 7pm-8pm Pacific time
  - Sunday, May 3, 4pm-5pm Pacific time
- At this practice, in additional to the usual activities, we had a session on "Introduction to Quadratic Forms" and "Introduction to NACLO / Computational Linguistics".
May 9 and May 10, 5pm-7pm Pacific time
- The Saturday practice will be a full FARML practice on our intended FARML teams. Please try to come to our Saturday practice if you're planning to participate in FARML on May 16.
- The Sunday practice will feature a mix of ARML and non-ARML content. In particular, the Saturday and Sunday practices will not feature the same breakout room options. Planned activities for Sunday include Power Question seminars, an Estimathon, and a talk by Simon (famed for SFFT) about some of his favorite factoring tricks.
May 17 only, 5pm-7pm Pacific time
- No practice on Saturday May 16 due to the FARML competition. See the competitions section above.
- Final tryout opportunity for ARML Local: first half of practice, 5pm-6pm Pacific time
- Activities during the May 17 practice will also include a Beginner's Room and a Guts Round scrimmage.
May 23 and May 24, 5pm-7pm Pacific time
- The Saturday practice will be a full ARML Local practice on our intended ARML Local teams. Please try to come to our Saturday practice if you're planning to participate in ARML Local on May 30.
- The Sunday practice will feature a mix of ARML and non-ARML content. In particular, the Saturday and Sunday practices will not feature the same breakout room options. Planned activities include:
  - Simon: "I'll talk about take-away games. These are games with piles of stones, where on a move a player is allowed to remove some of the stones from a pile subject to certain constraints. I'll begin by discussing the classic game of Fibonacci Nim, where players are allowed to remove up to twice as many stones as the previous player, and then I'll discuss some of my own work with various collaborators, including a surprising theorem about the stability of a certain class of take-away games."
  - Power Question seminar: Come up with extensions to the 2019 ARML Power Question!
  - Beginner's Room
  - Estimathon
May 31 only, 5pm-7pm Pacific time
- No practice on Saturday May 30 due to the FARML competition. See the competitions section above.
- On Sunday, we plan to have a FARML Math Jam (discussing problems from this year's contest), and fun activities including Kahoot and an integration bee. Join us for some fun math!
- Note: This was originally advertised as a wrap-up practice with a team meeting, but we realized that it doesn't make any sense to have a wrap-up before we know the results of ARML Local. So we'll do some more math and hold one more session the following week.
NEW: June 7 only, 5pm-7pm Pacific time

No meeting on Saturday; good luck on AOIME.

On Sunday, we'll have a season wrap-up practice and celebration. We'll have a song contest showcase, a final team meeting and presentation of ARML Local results, an Estimathon, and some math games. See you there!

Practice materials

Practice materials for practices will be posted here after each practice. Note that these pages are password protected. For the password, see any of Moor's team emails, or email moorxu@gmail.com for the username and password.