The Art of Problem Solving: The Basics Solutions: 1

Nice one, and it serves the purpose

I was cheated! It said solutions but it was the text book and not solutions

I wish I had this book as a middle school student. I want to keep this book a secret. Let the fact that I gave it 5 stars be sufficient. If you want to know why buy the book I will be selfish and say no more for the same reasons other parents did not share the information about the book

Good!

If your kid is (or if you are a kid) doing the MathCounts competition, you need to start here and know all this stuff. This is not the be all end all of your training, but you need to start here. Mastery of this book should put you ahead of 97-98% of the kids in local competitions. In short there are two types of kids in Math competitions: those that do AoPS and those that don't.

This is the Answer Key to "The Art of Problem Solving: The Basics." They show work but sometimes lack explanations so you will have to figure out what exactly happened from one step to the next. It is definitely handy if you write on separate piece of paper and compare your work with theirs. I agree with other comments that there are times when they take the harder/longer route to solve one problem.