Practice updates

Hi everyone,

Thanks everyone for coming to our first online practices last weekend. On Saturday alone, we had more participants than at any past practice, ever. 

Our second weekend of practices will be this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, 5pm-7pm Pacific time on each day. As we did last week, we will have the same content both days, with multiple parallel breakout sessions. If you choose to attend both days, you can attend different breakout sessions each day.

I think of last weekend's practices as a prototype for our online ARML practices. We've shown that we can reproduce the content of our in-person ARML practices, online. I'd like to go beyond that. Since we won't have the full ARML competition at the end of May, we don't have to follow the same recipe as we do in other years. I see this year's ARML practices as an opportunity for us to grow beyond just an ARML team, and to find other ways to do math as a community.

I posed this questions to the coaches, and I'd like to pose it to all of you as well: what would you like to see at practice? We've discussed teaching some new topics, problems from other contests in other formats, mathematical games, and others, in addition to our usual set of ARML content. If you're an advanced student who wants to lead an activity at practice, and share your experience with other students, please get in touch with me! I'd love to see some student-led activities as well.

A few housekeeping updates: 

• The materials that we used at last week's practice have been posted at the practice website: https://math.berkeley.edu/~moorxu/2020ARML/. To access this material, use username=sfba and password=arml. 
• An archive of past team announcements can be found at our email blog: http://sfbaarml.blogspot.com/.
• Going forward, Zoom links for practice will be sent to this email list approximately 10 minutes before the start of each practice -- at 4:50pm Pacific time on each Saturday and Sunday. Zoom links will no longer appear on the email blog.
• If you aren't on our email list (e.g. if someone forwarded this to you, or if you're seeing this on the email blog): please sign up for the email list at http://mathleague.org/armlapp.php.

If you know of anyone else who might want to join us this weekend, please pass this message along -- we'd love to have them. Hope to see you this weekend, and stay safe!

Best,

Moor