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Meet the new look of Art of Problem Solving. Yes it’s new, but in many ways, we’ve never looked more like ourselves. See how we turned the spirit of our students and community into something you can really feel and experience.

Parents often ask if AoPS helps students do well on the SAT and ACT. Our answer is yes, but that's not quite the right question. Here's what history and the data we do have show about why problem-solving skills outlast any single test.

Puzzles can be a powerful way to practice using the problem-solving toolkit we care most about. Beast Academy creator Jason Batterson explains how a single Scurry puzzle can require a half dozen problem-solving skills to solve.

AoPS has long served students who are ready to go beyond school math, but not all of them arrive at the same starting point. In a candid conversation with Chief Academic Officer Dr. Yating Liu, we explore the thinking behind AoPS's new Honors and Scholars course structure: what the two levels actually mean, how they connect, and why the right challenge at the right time matters more than the fastest path forward.

There's an elephant in the room when it comes to competitive programming — and we're not shying away from it. Here's what's coming in the new AoPS USACO Silver course, and why competitive programming is still valuable for learning how to think in the age of AI.

There's knowing a formula, there's understanding why it works, and then there's something beyond both. In this episode, Aaron Demby Jones explores what those levels feel like by exploring forbidden fraction rules.

Dr. Tram Huynh opens with a moment many parents will recognize immediately — a capable child who understood the material, but blanked on the test. What looks like a preparation problem, she explains, is often something else entirely, and understanding the real cause opens the door to strategies that can make a meaningful difference for students.

There's knowing a formula, there's understanding why it works, and then there's something beyond both. In this article, Aaron Demby Jones explores what those levels feel like through a deceptively simple example: long division.