Math Olympiad Preparation - 5th Grade

Note: This lesson is based on the WSMC Olympiad Common Problem Types list. Review of each of the 8 common problem types is provided. If you are taking teams to the WSMC Math Olympiad, this lesson is excellent preparation because these problems show up often. All of these problems (the handout and the homework) are taken from that competition. Hints are provided to guide the student to the correct solutions.
These common problem types are:
  1. Finding the missing number of a list given it's average
  2. Areas of composite shapes
  3. Arithmetic sequences
  4. Guess-and-check
  5. Permutations
  6. Working problems backwards
  7. Turning words into equations
  8. Cartesian coordinate problems
    The handout and the homework are both 3 pages. Copy pages 1 and 2 back-to-back.