Schedule:

  • Week 1: Problem solving heuristics, part 1
  • Week 2: Problem solving heuristics, part 2
  • Week 3: The pigeonhole principle
  • Week 4: Midterm 1
  • Week 5: Invariants and coloring
  • Week 6: Combinatorics part 1: double counting
  • Week 7: Combinatorics part 2: more counting
  • Weeks 8/9: Midterm 2 and Thanksgiving
  • Week 10: Number theory
  • Week 11: Inequalities
  • Week 12: Final