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Name: Art of Problem Solving, Incorporated

Year of Establishment: 2003

Company Location (Country): United States

Company Location (City): San Diego

Art of Problem Solving, Incorporated is an educational company founded by Richard Rusczyk in 2003. It offers a range of classes and textbooks, mostly in mathematics, for students in grades 2 to 12. The first books focused on preparing top math students for national and international math competitions, with later books and courses expanding the curriculum to cover most math topics for middle and high school students.

History Rusczyk got his start in math education in 1990, after he started the Mandelbrot Competition, a contest for American high school students, along with Sandor Lehoczky and Sam Vandervelde. The Art of Problem Solving books, from which the company derives its name, were written and published as a teaching tool for competitors.

Art of Problem Solving first launched online courses in 2003. In 2004, the Art of Problem Solving Online Community was formed after a merger with the MathLinks forums, founded by Valentin Vornicu for high school students preparing for the International Mathematical Olympiad. In 2016, the online school and community had over 160,000 users, including the International Math Olympiad students of that year and "just about every math enthusiast on the planet"[1].

Online Courses The Art of Problem Solving Online School offers a complete math curriculum for middle and high school, in addition to programming, chemistry, and physics courses. Classes meet weekly for live sessions in a moderated online classroom that provides support for the LaTeX mathematical typesetting language.[2][3] The Online School is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, and had 15,000 enrollments in 2017.[4]

Elementary Math In 2011, Art of Problem Solving launched its elementary math curriculum, titled Beast Academy, for students in grades 2-5. The Beast Academy textbooks are written Jason Batterson[5], Kyle Guillet, Shannon Rogers, and Chris Page. The books also include cartoons drawn by artist Erich Owen[6][7].

Math Outreach The Art of Problem Solving Initiative began administering the United States of America Mathematical Talent Search in 2004.[8] Since 2011, the Initiative has also run Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics, a math enrichment summer program for low-income minority students in New York City and Los Angeles.[9]

Art of Problem Solving Academies, a series of after-school enrichment centers, launched in 2016 in Morrisville, North Carolina in partnership with the former Advanced Placement Academy, run by Glen Dawson.[10] The Academies teach subject classes in math, language arts, and math contest preparation classes, for grades 2-12.

Art of Problem Solving currently runs Academies in:

  • Bellevue, WA
  • Gaithersburg, MD
  • Morrisville, NC
  • Princeton, NJ
  • San Diego, CA
  • Vienna, VA

References

  1. ^ "Special Event with Richard Rusczyk, Co-Author of The Art of Problem Solving (AoPS)". Retrieved 2018-05-25.
  2. ^ “Art of Problem Solving: A New Resource for Outstanding Mathematics Students,” Melanie Matchett Wood, MAA Focus, March 2007. Page 10. https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/pubs/march07web.pdf
  3. ^ Elizabeth Wissner-Gross, What High Schools Don’t Tell You: 300+ Secrets To Make Your Kid Irresistible to Colleges by Senior Year, 101 (New York: Hudson Street Press, 2007) page 101.
  4. ^ “Meet Richard Rusczyk of Art of Problem Solving in Carmel Valley and Rancho Bernardo,” San Diego Voyager, Jan 25 2018.
  5. ^ "Profile: Jason Batterson". www.agmath.com. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
  6. ^ "Character Design". www.erichowen.com. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
  7. ^ "Erich Owen". DC. 2017-01-23. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
  8. ^ http://www.usamts.org/index.php
  9. ^ “Beyond ‘Hidden Figures’: Nurturing New Black and Latino Math Whizzes,” Amy Harmon, New York Times, February 17 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/nyregion/new-york-math-camp.html
  10. ^ “Cary teen uses math to help students in India,” Jessica Banov, The News & Observer, March 29, 2015, http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/thumbs-up/article16753724.html
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