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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Thematic but reality oriented,
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This review is from: Hard Problems: The Road to the World's Toughest Math Contest (DVD)
The 83 minute documentary, which was about the 2006 International Mathematical Olympiad did a good job of giving insight into the lives of the contestants, showing what made them so special. But beyond this, and the looming competition with China, there wasn't too much that held the story together. At first I thought this was a flaw in the movie, but the more I thought about it, the more I thought that a realistic documentary should be this way. And in fact hearing about the unusual lives of the contestants, who are high school kids, is pretty interesting anyways. Not that there wasn't content to the rest of the film; for example there was a trip through Europe and a high powered summer school that the American contestants went to.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
math club kids liked this,
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This review is from: Hard Problems: The Road to the World's Toughest Math Contest (DVD)
I showed this video to my high school math club students. They really liked it. This video at the same time made them feel more 'normal' and also somewhat inferior to these high achievers. It was so different that it was especially interesting.
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Hard Problems: The Road to the World's Toughest Math Contest by George Csicsery (DVD - 2008)
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