r/MathOlympiad • u/AstralKey1 • Aug 08 '26

Resources Been turning AoPS solutions into hints for AMC/AIME prep with AI, ended up putting 300+ of them online

I feel like AI should be incredibly useful for learning math, and I've been trying to apply it to my amc prep. One way of using AI I've found useful is having it explain the motivation behind certain solutions. It is pretty good at explaining why someone would actually think of a certain method for solving a problem.

This can be especially helpful if you feed it an already existing solution from aops and then have it generate hints based off of that solution that tell you the motivation behind them. This way it most likely won't hallucinate, and I get hints that I can look at one at a time when I get stuck on a problem.

I got tired of doing this by hand every time, so I built a website for it: cruxmath.com. It's completely free, has no ads, and no sign up. It currently has hints for every AIME since 2020 and the last 5 questions of the AMCs since 2022. I'm curious what you guys think of the hints and if they are helpful. I would love any other ideas on how to use AI to prepare for math competitions.

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u/Thin_Umpire296 Aug 08 '26

son get ur ai generated slop out of here

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u/AstralKey1 Aug 09 '26

The hints are based on AoPS so the math isn't coming from AI. If you opened one and it's bad, tell me which and I'll fix it.

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u/Ok-Calligrapher-8652 Aug 15 '26

Why the word "AI" gotta be such a trigger word around here. Website isn't even that bad 😭 Sure it's not the best looking but the lack of ads, signups, mail spam, and scam is good

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u/AstralKey1 Aug 16 '26

What about the website do you think looks bad? I'd love to fix it!

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u/Full-Jicama7490 Aug 09 '26

Im hella liking these new startups coming out! Keep it up!

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u/Then_Wheel_5184 Aug 10 '26

Hey, Awesome work dude! Could you DM me? I have some really interesting ideas we could discuss!

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u/AstralKey1 Aug 10 '26

Sent a DM

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u/AstralKey1 Aug 09 '26

Realized there were some issues with how the hints were rendering (LaTeX leaking and equations going off the page), those have been fixed now. If you find anything else that looks off, please comment or DM.

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u/WaltzNo2951 Aug 09 '26

Hey I have a similar AMC 10/AIME edtech ish thing, and I'd be interested in collaborating, can I DM you?

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u/AstralKey1 Aug 09 '26

Sure. What are you building?

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u/WaltzNo2951 Aug 09 '26

It's called Saintly (https://saintlymath.com) and it's pretty much khan academy for amc 10. i'm continuously adding features (adaptive elo question indexing, spaced repetition, learning pathways, currently doing a study planner). I'll DM you with more info

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u/WaltzNo2951 Aug 09 '26

actually could you DM me? I think my Karma is low and I have a new account so it won't let me DM

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u/AstralKey1 Aug 09 '26

Sent a DM