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Fermi Questions C
Posted: August 14th, 2012, 6:17 pm
by Jim_R
Re: Fermi Questions C
Posted: September 3rd, 2012, 1:34 pm
by iwonder
Could someone migrate the question marathon to the new forum? Or maybe just make a new topic? It's locked up in 2012
Re: Fermi Questions C
Posted: September 11th, 2012, 9:20 am
by 49ers
Has there been any change to the rules or is it just exactly the same?
Re: Fermi Questions C
Posted: September 11th, 2012, 2:50 pm
by cngu23
49ers wrote:Has there been any change to the rules or is it just exactly the same?
I don't really see how the rules could change too much. Last year's rules were quite broad.
Re: Fermi Questions C
Posted: September 12th, 2012, 9:46 am
by 49ers
cngu23 wrote:49ers wrote:Has there been any change to the rules or is it just exactly the same?
I don't really see how the rules could change too much. Last year's rules were quite broad.
This is true. My question was a poor choice.
iwonder wrote:Could someone migrate the question marathon to the new forum? Or maybe just make a new topic? It's locked up in 2012
It hasn't been migrated yet? Could someone please do so? Because practicing problems is the only thing to do to get any better (and not take 12th at Regionals again, being the worst event place)...
Re: Fermi Questions C
Posted: September 28th, 2012, 5:47 pm
by Mathdino
The rules manual isn't really clear. Are we allowed to have scratch paper, or is it all mental Math?
Re: Fermi Questions C
Posted: September 28th, 2012, 5:54 pm
by syo_astro
Mathdino wrote:The rules manual isn't really clear. Are we allowed to have scratch paper, or is it all mental Math?
Um, they can't really stop you from that. But they can limit your work space. At my regionals last year they gave us an answer sheet which we couldn't write on (at least, I didn't think we could), so our only scratch paper was the question sheet which was filled front to back. It helps to do mental math quickly, but I would think they have no possible way to stop you from writing out work.
Re: Fermi Questions C
Posted: September 29th, 2012, 4:20 pm
by ryandm
Hi folks, I'm a science olympiad alum and I *loved* fermi questions. I miss it a lot
In my experience there aren't any good online fermi questions tutorials, and especially missing is a large repository of practice problems.
Would anyone be interested in something like what I describe at
http://www.fermiquestions.com? I'd appreciate a comment there or here if it seems like what I describe would be useful to you (or if you have any thoughts about this in general). Thanks!
Re: Fermi Questions C
Posted: September 29th, 2012, 4:39 pm
by harryk
ryandm wrote:Hi folks, I'm a science olympiad alum and I *loved* fermi questions. I miss it a lot
In my experience there aren't any good online fermi questions tutorials, and especially missing is a large repository of practice problems.
Would anyone be interested in something like what I describe at
http://www.fermiquestions.com? I'd appreciate a comment there or here if it seems like what I describe would be useful to you (or if you have any thoughts about this in general). Thanks!
Sounds useful, though do you really have a few thousand practice problems?
Re: Fermi Questions C
Posted: September 29th, 2012, 4:58 pm
by ryandm
harryk wrote:Sounds useful, though do you really have a few thousand practice problems?
I'm thinking like a programmer haha
after graduating I studied comp sci & now I write code for a living. I'm sure that some combination of code & tedious compilation of fermi questions / data from around the web would get the overall count up there