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Designed by PhDs from MIT, Princeton, and Stanford, our curriculum has helped thousands of students build the problem solving skills they need to excel in school and beyond.

Our instructors are passionate about helping students master complex topics. Once outstanding students themselves, they've earned advanced degrees and accolades.

Our students go on to become the great problem solvers of tomorrow. AoPS alumni are excelling in top-tier academia, leading innovative companies, and solving big global challenges.

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Although we designed our program to be based loosely on the Common Core standards, we cover grade-level standards in greater depth than other elementary and middle school math curricula. Find the right challenge level for your student.

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Our language arts curriculum uses the same problem solving approach as our world-renowned math curriculum. Expert instructors immerse language arts students in real-world problem solving scenarios they've never seen before, inspiring them to push toward creative solutions.

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Art of Problem Solving has been successfully training students since 1993, preparing them for college and career success through engaging curriculum and expert instruction. Our students go on to win prestigious contests and competitions, including the International Math Olympiad.

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The Art of Problem Solving Math

The Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) math courses for grades five through twelve were designed for high-performing math students. The publisher says on their website ,

 We present a much broader and deeper exploration of challenging mathematics than a typical math curriculum and show students how to apply their knowledge and problem-solving skills to difficult problems. We help students learn the critical problem-solving skills necessary for success at mathematics competitions (such as MATHCOUNTS and the AMC), top universities, and competitive careers.

Their courses cover much more than typical math courses for middle through high school. They have courses that cover the standard sequence at advanced levels, plus other courses that take students deeper into the math needed for physics, engineering, computer science, and other math-based careers.

 AoPS students often work a few years ahead of other students, which means that capable fifth or sixth graders might start with Prealgebra . Note that AoPS is the publisher of Beast Academy math courses for grades one through five, and those courses prepare students to move right into AoPS Prealgebra.

Courses and Format Options

AoPS lists five courses as part of their “Introductory Curriculum” for students up through tenth grade : Prealgebra, Introduction to Algebra, Introduction to Counting & Probability, Introduction to Geometry , and Introduction to Number Theory . Their “Intermediate Curriculum” for advanced high school students includes Intermediate Algebra, Intermediate Counting & Probability, Precalculus , and Calculus . Even so, students in a traditional program can still use these courses following a more typical timeline and concentrating on the required courses.

The website page for each course has two free diagnostic tests (PDFs) that help determine whether a student has the prerequisites for the course or whether they already have mastered what the course covers. These tests are accessed by clicking on “Are You Ready?” and “Do You Need This?” on each course’s description page.

Students do not need to complete all books in the series, but if they start the series in sixth grade, they should be able to complete most of them. Students who want to participate in math competitions might also be interested in AoPS books written specifically for that purpose: Competition Math for Middle School; the Art of Problem Solving, Volume 1: the Basics ; and the Art of Problem Solving, Volume 2: and Beyond . (The titles of the last two books do not begin with capital T.)

AoPS sells printed or online books or a combination of both. They also offer live, online options for all courses and a self-paced-online option for Prealgebra and Introductory Algebra A. (The online courses might be a great way for eager students to find the community support they need to enter competitions.)

The printed textbooks have separate solutions manuals with worked-out solutions for every problem. The online books include the solutions, and they also integrate the textbooks with interactions with the AoPS community, Alcumus (described below), and the free videos (also described below). The textbooks vary in length; those for the standard courses (except Calculus ) run from 528 to 720 pages, while other courses have from 256 to 400 pages.

Free videos are available online for Prealgebra, Introduction to Algebra , and Introduction to Counting & Probability . You can view these without having to pay or register. The videos do not replace the textbooks or online classes but supplement them. There are one or more videos for each lesson, all taught by Richard Rusczyk, a very engaging presenter as well as a former USA Mathematical Olympiad winner. I highly recommend watching them.

How the Courses Work

The courses divide the content into chapters, with several lessons within each chapter. Each lesson begins either with brief instruction or a set of three or more problems. Students should try to solve the problems on their own. The lesson continues with thorough explanations for how to solve each problem, and this is where most of the instruction is presented. This strategy very much reflects the title of the series, the Art of Problem Solving—students are focused on developing problem-solving skills as well as accuracy.

After studying the solutions, students have another set of problems to solve, a few of which are drawn from advanced math exams (no longer in use), such as the AHSME (American High School Mathematics Examination).

Lessons often use blue boxes to highlight key concepts, important ideas, and warnings about common mistakes.

There are Review Problems at the end of each chapter but no quizzes or tests for any of these courses. (The second diagnostic test for each course, titled “Do You Need This?,” could function as a final exam if needed.) The publisher’s explanation to me regarding this was: “Since our curriculum focuses on teaching students mathematical concepts and problem-solving skills, we believe that students who are using our textbooks have mastered the material if they can successfully solve the Review Problems at the end of each chapter.”

Alcumus, AoPS’s online learning system, is available for free to all students, even if they have not purchased any AoPS course. Alcumus adapts to the student’s performance, giving them problems to solve that are appropriate for their level—problems to solve in addition to those in their course. Alcumus can be used alongside the Introductory Curriculum courses, whether in print or online. (Students using courses from other publishers for pre-algebra through geometry should also find the program useful.) Alcumus provides ambitious students with work that will both reinforce and stretch their skills.

The AoPS website offers many other resources for advanced math students, including information about competitions, online forums, and training for competitions.

AoPS math courses should be fantastic for avid math students who are eager to learn and go deeper, but they also offer excellent and thorough instruction for the average student.

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With a rising number of artists vying for a limited number of galleries and grants, arts professionals are pivoting to careers as coaches. But can they help people profit from their talents?

By Travis Diehl

From 2005 to 2017, Paddy Johnson ran a respected art-world blog, Art F City . “Fiercely Independent,” began its tagline. But art criticism is a precarious business. She tried teaching as an adjunct, but that wasn’t much better.

Gradually, Johnson shifted to providing career counseling to artists, and helping them workshop their statements of purpose and grant applications. She realized it could be a business. In February 2021, she invited her mailing list to a webinar on the value — or not — of a fine arts degree, titled “ Is It Time to Kill the M.F.A.? ” A follow-up email included a link to “Book a free consult with our coaches.”

In May of that year, Johnson founded Netvvrk, an app-based resource for artists, with message boards, how-to guides and frequent Zoom seminars. It now has more than 900 members, most of whom pay between $49 and $87 a month.

Welcome to the vast, thorny wilderness of online artist mentoring.

With ever more artists vying for limited galleries and grants, there has been a recent flush of subscription-based, web-powered coaching and marketing programs offering advice, encouragement and feedback to creative types. This is partly a symptom of Covid, which encouraged people to embrace video calls and group chats at the same time it intensified isolation. It also reflects the growing number of midcareer artists looking for peers beyond art schools, and yearning to profit from their talents.

These groups aim to pick up where traditional art education leaves off: Artists want to know not just how to make paintings, but how to sustain a long and satisfying career.

Many of these groups’ founders were frustrated in their own careers. “I felt like a failure as a teacher and a failure as a critic,” Johnson told me. Now, rather than hustle for teaching gigs, coaches like Johnson rely on apps like Teachable and Mighty Networks to reach followers and collect dues.

The self-help genre has a reputation for selling unrealistic promises — as they say, if you want to get rich quick, write a get-rich-quick book. But, as a critic with an M.F.A., I’m a convert to one classic: Julia Cameron’s “The Artist’s Way,” a workbook for unblocking creativity that has sold five million copies since 1992. Which left me wondering: Do the members of mentoring groups benefit as much as their gurus?

So, I signed up to mailing lists. I started a fresh Instagram account and followed every artist coach I could find, which attracted targeted ads from still more. I sat through sales pitches — like a free workshop on avoiding online art scams from a program called Milan Art that ended with an overview of their membership costs. I even signed up for two: Johnson’s Netvvrk and the Praxis Center for Aesthetic Studies , for a peek behind the paywall. And I asked more than a dozen of these groups’ members about their experiences.

These career support services range widely, from sales-focused to philosophical to pedagogical. Instagram teems with figures like Lloyd Coenen , a painter with a self-described “7-figure art career,” and Miriam Schulman , who calls herself “your curator of inspiration.” They post teasing tips on social media and sell marketing advice to aspiring Frida Kahlos and KAWSes. I passed up the Making Art Making Money School of Business, which sent potential students an excoriating email saying, “You’re not getting any younger.” Another service I sampled, Art Storefronts , described on its website as “An Exclusive Community of Growth-Minded Artists and Savvy Mentors,” will build you an online shop and help you self-promote.

Those who want a holistic approach to art can join artist-led groups dedicated to mutual support and demystifying the art world. On Netvvrk’s message boards, members experienced with galleries and graduate degrees share advice and cheer one another on. Emails from Brainard Carey and the Praxis Center address you with subject lines such as “ How Are You Nurturing Your Career In Bleak Mid-Winter? ” and “ Is Your Life Real? ”

And if you’re looking for something more personal, reminiscent of attending art school remotely, the consulting startup NewCrits promotes “a community of artists for the present” via hourlong virtual studio visits. West Street Coaching , a smaller outfit, also offers one-on-one meetings. The NYC Crit Club and its sister Canopy Program provide a mix of virtual classes, online critiques and in-person sessions at their Chelsea loft.

These groups aim to pick up where traditional art education leaves off: Artists want to know not just how to make paintings, but how to sustain a long and satisfying career. The coaches and advisers wrestle with the problem of success as an artist: What does it look like? How do you know when you have it? And can any amount of coaching, self-promotion or community get you there?

And all of them, to some degree, appeal to your vanity. They stoke that glowing kernel of a dream that says: You’re special. You’re an artist. You have something to offer — something that other people want to buy.

Hang Your Shingle

My introduction to Art Storefronts was an Instagram ad, styled like an urgent iPhone notification: “Reminder: Artists who join this week get free website setup and management for life!” A few clicks later, I was on Zoom getting a tour of one of the company’s tailored e-commerce sites.

The idea is simple: Artists upload high-resolution images of their work. A fulfillment center prints and ships editions direct to consumers, at different sizes, on materials that range from wall-mounted canvas and acrylic panels to yoga mats and tank tops. A.I.-powered statistical analysis tracks your potential buyers; a marketing calendar maps your social media strategy. The bespectacled sales representative showed me a summary of one artist’s yearly take: over $80,000. If I signed up in the next few hours, he said — at $1,699 upfront for the basic Bronze membership tier, plus $50 a month for the web store — they’d build my site for me. And I’d begin, supposedly, collecting cash.

Art Storefronts debuted in 2013. It now has 14,000 members. Nick Friend , the company’s chief executive and founder, graduated from U.S.C.’s Marshall School of Business. He developed the idea for Art Storefronts after starting a company that manufactures fine art papers and canvas.

As the Art Storefronts website puts it, “Selling art? Marketing is all that matters. ”

From the moment I surrendered my contact information, I sustained their hard sell: emails and text messages dangling one of a few dwindling slots in their latest limited promotion. Other emails promised further walk-throughs with satisfied Art Storefronts customers.

“I’ve noticed now so many ads, these videos, you know: Artists, I can help you make $500,000 and blah, blah, blah. And that’s always the promise,” said Karen Hutton, an accomplished landscape and travel photographer. She sells multiples through an Art Storefronts website, but that’s just one piece of a successful career. “I have a vision for what I want my business to be,” she told me. “Their business education doesn’t align with that. And that’s fine because it aligns with other people.”

Ideally, says one testosterone-laced Art Storefronts podcast episode from 2017 (removed from their website in the last several weeks), prospective members are encouraged to pass what they call the “Does My Art Suck?” test by selling their art, offline, to a stranger.

Friend told me that 20 percent of new members haven’t sold art before. Art Storefronts seemed ready to take my money, too — one marketing email said that my art had “randomly caught” a rep’s eye. But I hadn’t shown anyone any.

Telling Artists Everything

While Art Storefronts encourages artists to act like small-business owners, and think of art as “product”— one member, for example, describes scoring a coveted licensing deal with the University of Kansas — Brainard Carey, an artist and director of the online Praxis Center for Aesthetic Studies, argues that “artists aren’t entrepreneurs.”

“If they were entrepreneurs, then as soon as something didn’t work, they’d move to something else,” Carey told me. Instead, they make art for “the weirdest reason in the world”: because they want to see it.

Carey founded the Praxis Center in 2016. Today, the online group claims 1,800 members and charges between $33 and $59 a month. With his warm voice and shaved head, and seven how-to books to his name, he’s the picture of a guru. When I took the Praxis plunge, asking for help getting grants, I got a personalized welcome video within a few hours.

The Praxis Center grew from a collective comprising Carey and his wife, Delia Bajo, also an artist. His sales pitch hinges on the duo’s participation in the Whitney Biennial of 2002 (a performance that involved washing visitors’ feet and giving them bandages and hugs). People started asking them how they got in. “Unlike what we encountered,” Carey said, “which is, you know, people holding their cards close to their chest in terms of how they made their way in the art world, we began telling them everything.”

The promotional emails come thick and fast, suggesting that you’ll ‘get the shows, residencies, and grants of your dreams.’ Does that bring the awkward tang of false promises?

Their basic method: Ask. Ask for meetings, then shows. Heck, ask for money. Go to the donor wall of a museum, Carey advises in one members-only video, and take names. In his 2011 book “Making It in the Art World,” Carey describes how he mailed cryptic packages of work samples to four Whitney Biennial organizers, which scored Praxis an interview.

If you want to set up an online store or get a Guggenheim grant, says Carey, he can help. Another draw is the weekly series of invited curators, whose emails are added to a growing list.

Karin Campbell, a curator of contemporary art at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Neb., was a recent guest. A few Praxis artists have emailed her. That said, Campbell told me, conversations don’t necessarily lead to shows. For both artists and curators, “sometimes it’s just about communing.”

Pivoting to Community

Brad Troemel found success in the early 2000s as a Post-Internet artist and conceptual sculptor; now he keeps a safe distance from the art world, writing video essays critiquing culture that are delivered to his paying subscribers on Patreon, an online publishing platform.

In a 2022 video with nearly 8,000 views on YouTube, Troemel breaks down hustle culture , embodied in rise-and-grind memes about working hard. The ultimate goal, in his analysis, is “to get you to proudly embrace your own exploitation.” During the pandemic, he says, the nature of the hustle shifted from a kind of motivational sloganeering to online groups sold as “communities.” Troemel points to NFTs and meme stocks as examples. Art coaching groups often promote fellowship, too.

Even the fanciest M.F.A. program can finesse the fact that surviving the mental, spiritual and financial doldrums of a long career requires devoted friends. Netvvrk, with Paddy Johnson as its red-haired figurehead, emphasizes — well, networking.

“The art industry is messed up,” reads the Netvvrk homepage, using an expletive. “Let’s beat the system together.”

Jonathan Herbert, an artist who says he went tagging with Basquiat and now resides in Sarasota, Fla., is active in Netvvrk and Praxis Center, and speaks fondly of both. “I remember the day of finding a great grant and not wanting to tell anybody, because God knows one more person applying would really screw my chances up,” Herbert said. But Netvvrk users freely share open calls in the Opportunities section.

Herbert recalled needing a recommendation letter on short notice. Another Netvvrk member, B. Quinn, wrote him one. (When I interviewed Quinn, she shared the same story, unprompted.)

Yet even with Netvvrk, the promotional emails come thick and fast, suggesting that you’ll “get the shows, residencies, and grants of your dreams.” Does that bring the awkward tang of false promises?

“What we are trying to do is to make things easier for artists and also to set expectations appropriately,” Johnson said. Sure, members start out wanting to know how to get more shows and find galleries, she continued, but “those questions get answered naturally” as you focus on meeting people and making art.

Johnson has several part-time employees, including William Powhida , a New York artist known for critiquing art’s power structures in his drawings and writing. In his view, the group can help people “understand what the field looks like and how rare it is to achieve the kind of art world success that they might be seeing or reading about.”

Blame the Game, Not the Coach

Some of the coaching groups I explored meet a clear need for many of their members and founders — while seemingly reproducing some of the hierarchical business models (namely art schools) they’re trying to escape.

Amy Beecher, a former Netvvrk member with a Yale M.F.A., sees the uptick in artist coaches and career-development groups as a reflection of an increasingly professional approach to the creative life. There’s a “cringe factor” to this, she says.

“Are these programs inevitable at this moment in time,” she asked, “given the amount of people who’ve been through M.F.A. programs that sort of optimistically promise the myth of a career?”

NewCrits was founded in 2023 by another unsatisfied teacher, artist and Whitney Biennial alum, Ajay Kurian. The group is his alternative to teaching at Yale and Columbia (which he still does). “The first art school in America recently closed,” Kurian told me, referring to the San Francisco Art Institute. “I think there are many schools that are not far behind.”

NewCrits says it provides “time and attention to be fully seen.” It offers one-on-one online career counseling or virtual studio visits with “the world’s most visionary artists,” including Ser Serpas and EJ Hill (they were in the 2024 and 2022 Whitney Biennials, respectively), for $180 to $300 an hour. That’s a fraction of the price of an M.F.A., but also a fraction of the experience — studio time, campus life, group critiques. Kurian says he plans to roll out group options this fall.

Traditional art educators also cite the importance of community to a life in the arts. “Nothing takes the place of a real interaction with other working artists or your peers,” said David A. Ross, a former director of the Whitney Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and currently chair of the hybrid Art Practice M.F.A. program at the School of Visual Arts. The degree, begun 14 years ago, caters to artists with an average age of 35, many of whom have jobs and families.

He told me enrollment has been steady. “I cannot teach somebody how to make good art,” Ross said. “That has to come from inside. But you sure can help them manage a lifelong commitment to a very complicated career.”

On April 14, Johnson emailed her Netvvrk members after a “bittersweet week.” One of their own, Antonietta Grassi, had won a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship. Sadly, she continued, the grant is competitive — many more members were among the 94 percent of applicants who didn’t win. “And what that means, is that you should apply again this year,” Johnson wrote. “Something will break for you. I promise!”

Art and Museums in New York City

A guide to the shows, exhibitions and artists shaping the city’s cultural landscape..

At the Museum of Modern Art, the documentary photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier honors those who turn their energies to a social good .

Jenny Holzer signboards predated by a decade the news “crawl.” At the Guggenheim she is still bending the curve: Just read the art, is the message .

The artist-turned-film director Steve McQueen finds new depths in “Bass,”  an immersive environment of light and sound  in Dia Beacon keyed to Black history and “where we can go from here.”

A powerful and overdue exhibition at El Museo del Barrio links Amalia Mesa-Bains’s genre-defying installations  for the first time.

Looking for more art in the city? Here are the gallery shows not to miss in June .

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In-Person Summer and Academic Year Courses for Grades 1–12

In advanced math, science, and language arts courses, students find lifelong friends, mentors, and role models as they reach new heights together. explore our course offerings for grades 1–12..

ABOUT AOPS ACADEMY

Rigorous Curriculum and an Unforgettable Experience

Since 1993, Art of Problem Solving has prepared hundreds of thousands of motivated students in grades 2–12 for college and career success. Through our innovative approach, students build a problem-solving foundation, an unparalleled skill set that helps them overcome obstacles in school and in life.

Our Fremont Location

We’re right in your neighborhood! Our campus location is at 46515 Mission Blvd, Fremont, CA 94539.

A Problem-Solving Curriculum

Our curriculum is rigorous — it's built to be. If students never feel challenged, they’re not getting to the boundaries of what’s possible. By solving new and complex problems, AoPS students are inspired to expand to their fullest academic potential.

If you’re looking for a challenging, interactive environment where your student will build the skill stack to succeed in school and beyond, you'll find it at AoPS Academy Fremont!

Our family regularly talks about AoPS. We try to think about how our life would be different without you all. What if my daughter hadn't learned to love math? What if she never experienced being pushed to her limits? Overcoming failure? She wouldn't be who she is. And she is AWESOME! A very proud mom here. We are so fortunate that we found AoPS Academy. I credit AoPS for much of her confidence.

AoPS Academy parent to 16-year-old engineering major at UW and future cancer researcher