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(Web Site and State Finals hosted by the North Carolina School of Science & Mathematics) |
| (an activity of the North Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics) | |
(Web Site and State Finals hosted by the North Carolina School of Science & Mathematics) |
(April 2010) 2010 State Math Contest Winners determined
Check this link (pdf file) to see the top 20 finishers in the 2010 State Contest. Also, this year students who qualified but could not attend in person (as well as students who "nearly" qualified) were invited to take the contest online. Of these students, Constance Zhou earned a score of 96.
(April 2010) Winston-Salem State University Math Contest featured on WFMY
Click here for the video segment which aired on April 11, 2010.
(March 2010) Ralph Willis at WCU recognized on WLOS-TV
Click here for the video segment which aired on March 26, 2010.
(June 2009) John Berman wins Gold Medal at IMO
For more information, click here.
(May 2009) 2009 NC ARML team wins!
NC's ARML Team earns first place on-site at UGA & seventh in the nation. Read more in this press release (pdf file).
(April 2009) 2009 State Math Contest Winners determined
Check this link (pdf file) to see the top 20 finishers in the 2009 State Contest.
Links to recent news articles about this year's contest:
(April 2009) 2009 State Math Contest Qualifiers Finalized
Check this link (pdf file) to see the list of 155 students who have qualified for the 2009 State Math Contest!
(March 2009) AG Math Camp
Math Camp is a week-long summer program geared towards students interested in going beyond what is learned in a traditional math classroom. Find more info here.
(January 2009) NC Team Wins at Princeton
The 3rd Annual Princeton University Math Competition (PUMaC) was held on January 31, 2009 at Princeton University. The competition was split into divisions A and B based on experience; more 30 teams competed in each division, for a total of around 500 students participating.
North Carolina's team took first place overall in Division A behind a strong performance on the individual tests, beating out tough competition such as the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. North Carolina also placed 2nd on the Team test and 9th on the Power test.
The team's coaches were Ken Thwing and John Goebel, and the team members were John Berman, Bryce Taylor, Calvin Deng, Allen Yang, Brendan Fletcher, and NCSSM students Patrick Tenorio, Pom McCabe, and Damien Jiang.
The individual tests were broken into four subjects: algebra, geometry, number theory, and combinatorics. Each team member took two of these tests, which required solving ten problems in an hour.
From North Carolina, these students placed:
Algebra - Calvin Deng and Pom McCabe tied for 8th
Geometry - Calvin Deng tied for 1st; Damien Jiang tied for 3rd
Number Theory - John Berman tied for 1st; Bryce Taylor placed 4th; Damien Jiang tied for 5th
Combinatorics - John Berman placed 2nd
The top individuals in each subject qualified for the Individual Finals, a 1-hour, 3-problem proof exam; NCSSM's Damien Jiang received 1st place.
For more details about PUMaC results, see link here.
(6/1/08) NC ARML Team Captures Third Place
A team of fifteen students from around North Carolina placed third in the nation at the Thirty-third Annual American Regions Mathematics League (ARML) Meet on Saturday. Two North Carolina teams participated at the University of Georgia site. This year's contest was held simultaneously at Penn State University, Iowa State University, the University of Las Vegas, and the University of Georgia. Scores from each of the sites were compiled and the A-Team from North Carolina placed first at the Georgia Site and third in the nation. Only the perennially strong teams from New York City and Phillips Exeter Academy scored higher than the North Carolina Team. San Francisco and Southern California rounded out the top five. The North Carolina team, in what the coaches called a "rebuilding" year with an "awfully young" group of students, were somewhat surprised by their outstanding performance. The North Carolina team had won this contest in 2006 and placed fourth in 2007. This outstanding finish made the North Carolina team the only team to have finished in the top five in each of the past three years. One-hundred thirty-five teams from the United States along with a team from Hong Kong and Vietnam competed in this year's contest. For more details and pictures, visit here and the Official ARML Site.
(4/25/08)John Berman wins the State Math Contest Comprehensive Finals and Joseph Keefer earns a full-tuition scholarship to Duke University
John Berman, a junior at J. T. Hoggard High School in Wilmington won the State Mathematics Contest, Comprehensive Division on April 24th, 2008 at the NC School of Science and Mathematics. John placed second in 2007, twelfth in 2006 and thirteenth in 2005. John won a $1000 Award provided to the winner by the EMC Corporation. EMC also provides scholarships to the top ten in the contest for courses offered on the Art of Problem Solving website.
Joe Keefer, of NCSSM and the Highland School of Technology in Gastonia was the highest placing senior who had also applied and been accepted at Duke University. As such, he is eligible for a full-tuition, four-year scholarship to Duke University valued at over $140,000. Should Joe not elect to go to Duke, Daniel Vitek or Ray Wang would become eligible.
(4/2/08)Arnav Tripathy Selected as 2007 Putnam Fellow
Arnav Tripathy, a freshman at Harvard University http://math.harvard.edu/putnam/index.html, formerly from East Chapel Hill High School was in the top six finishers on the 2007 Putnam Exam, given to college and university teams across the US. http://www.maa.org/news/031708putnam.html. Arnav finished in the top five on our State Math Contest five years in a row, winning the contest in 2004 as a freshman in high school. Arnav was also a mainstay on our winning ARML Team in 2006. He also was a member of the 2006 and 2007 USA Olympiad Teams. He is featured in a new MAA documentary, "Hard Problems, The Road To The World's Toughest Math Contest" (http://www.maa.org/news/101807hardproblems.html). (http://www.hardproblemsmovie.com/).
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