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Results of “The Nine Chapters on the
Mathematical Art” Contest 2012
“The Nine
Chapters on the Mathematical Art” Contest (NCC) is a math
contest designed for students of Grades 3 to 10 as a warm-up
for the Canadian Math Contests. The contest is named after the
Chinese ancient classic book "The Nine Chapters on the
Mathematical Art". NCC 2012 is organized by Grand River
Chinese School, co-organized by St. Louis Continuing Education
Centers, and Confucius Institute at the University of
Waterloo.
NCC began in
2008, and since then, attendees of NCC have achieved a lot of
distinctive honours in Canadian Math Contests, and have been
listed 66 times on honour rolls, including 20 times of perfect
scores, gold medals and/or golden standard. New winners since
NCC last year include:
2012
Cayley Contest Gold Medal and Perfect Score:
Billy
Jin
2012 Fryer Contest Gold Standard :
Amitan
Pope
Fengyang Wang
Yan Peng Gao
2012 Galois Contest
Gold Standard :
Lisa Bian
Rongzhao Li
Tim Min
Jim Zhang
2012 International Math Kangaroo
Competition 1st Place in Canada and Gold Medal:
Lanney
Wang
and
One person on 2011 Canadian
Senior Mathematics Contest Honour Roll
Five persons on
2011 Canadian Intermediate Mathematics Contest Honour
Roll
Five persons on 2012 Cayley Contest Honour
Roll
One person on 2012 Fermat Contest Honour
Roll
Three persons on 2012 Pascal Contest Honour
Roll
Two persons on 2012 Euclid Contest Honour
Roll
Two persons on Canadian Open Mathematics Challenge
Honour Roll
Two persons on 2012 Canadian Computing
Competition Honour Roll
One person on 2012 Byron-Germain
Contest Honour Roll
Four persons on 2012 Fibonacci
Contest Honour Roll
Three persons on 2012 Pythagoras
Contest Honour Roll
One person on 2012 Lagrange Contest
Honour Roll
One person on 2012 Brock University Caribou
Mathematics Competition Honour Roll Congratulations to all of them!
The
Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art Contest received record
response this year. A total of 90 students wrote the contest,
some of them traveled to Waterloo from other cities. The
members of NCC Problems Committee and editors worked very hard
for months to design the contest. They
are:
Problems Committee (in alphabetical order):
Shalev Ben-David
(Advisor))
Anton Borissov
Helen Hu
Amlesh
Jayakumar (Chair)
Billy Jin
Will Ma (Advisor)
Tom
Peng
Henry Zhu
Problem Editors (in alphabetical
order):
Alexei Borissov
Tony
Hu
Rong Li
Contest Student Honour Roll:
The Group of Grades 9 and 10
(11
attendees, group average score 61.4)
First Prize:
Fengyang Wang, Sir
John A. Macdonald High School, Score of 105
Second Prize:
Elbert Lai, Waterloo
Collegiate Institute, Score of 100
Third Prize:
Tim Min, Waterloo
Collegiate Institute, Score of 75
Honourable Mention:
Amitan Pope,
Waterloo Collegiate Institute, Score of 65
The Group of
Grades 7 and 8 (27 attendees, group average score
49.8)
First Prize
(Tied, in alphabetical order):
David Chen,
Centenial Public School, Score of 90
Alexander Kitaev,
Centenial Public School, Score of 90
Lanney F. Wang,
Courtland Public School, Score of 90
Honourable Mention:
Sihao Ban,
Centenial Public School, Score of 80
Tony Li , Centennial
Public School, Score of 75
David Zhiyuan Zhou, Dalewood
Middle School, Hamilton, Score of 75
Jeffrey Lin,
Laurelwood Public School, Score of 65
Clara Xi, William G.
Davis Public School, Score of 65
The Group of Grades 5 and 6 (30 attendees, group average score
47.7)
First
Prize:
Andy Dong, Waverley Drive Public School,
Guelph, Score of 105
Second
Prize:
Rachel Kim, Mary Johnston Public School,
Score of 100
Third Prize:
Donnel Ren, Edna Staebler Public School, Score
of 95
Honourable
Mention:
Andrew Wang, Abraham Erb Public School,
Score of 85
Zihan Gao, Centennial Public School, Score of
80
Hao Yun, Williamsburg Public School, Score of
80
Runze Zhang, Abaraham Erb Public School, Score of
70
Miguel
Caringal, St. Agnes Catholic School, Score of
65
The Group of Grades 3 and 4
(22 attendees, group average
score 49.8)
First Prize
(Tied, in alphabetical order):
David Gou, Millen
Woods Public School, Score of 80
Matthews Dayang Ma, Mary
Johnston Public School, Score of 80
Third Prize (Tied, in alphabetical
order):
Michelle Ma, Abraham Erb Public School, Score of
75
Victor Wei, Williamsburg Public School, Score of
75
Honourable
Mention:
Daniel Yu, Edna Staebler Public School,
Score of 65
Aleksandar Pejanovic, Conestoga Public School,
Score of 60
Richie Tan, Millen Woods Public School, Score
of 60
The award ceremony will be held during the
Chinese New Year Gala of Grand River Chinese School in
February 2013. The above students will receive their
certificates and prizes. Other students who want to know their
scores may email office@grandriverchineseschool.com. Organizing Committee of NCC12
Nov. 26,
2012
Questions and Solutions of the Nine Chapters
on the Mathematical Art Contest (NCC) 2012
[2012/11/17]
Cover
Sheet Solutions Part
A
Solution
Part
B
Solution
Part
C
Solution
Part
D
Solution
Part
E
Solution
Part
F
Solution
The 5th Nine
Chapters on the Mathematical Art Contest (NCC12)
[2012/10/9]
Co-organized and sponsored by
Confucius Institute at the University of Waterloo, and St.
Louis Continuing Education Centres, Grand River Chinese School
will host "The 5th Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art
Contest (NCC12)" on Nov. 17, 2012, 2:45pm to 4:00pm.
Students
achieving outstanding results in the contest will receive
awards provided by the Confucius Institute.
NCC12 is a math
contest designed for students of Grades 3 to 10 as a warm-up
for the Canadian Math Contests (Thales Contest for Grade 3,
Byron-Germain Contest for Grade 4, Fibonacci Contest for Grade
5, Pythagoras Contest for Grade 6, Gauss Contest for Grades 7
and 8, Pascal Contest for Grade 9, and Cayley Contest for
Grade 10). The contest is named after the Chinese ancient
classic book "The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical
Art" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Chapters_on_the_Mathematical_Art).
Since the first NCC in 2008,
there have been 66 times that our
NCC attendees were listed on the honour rolls of Canadian Math
Contests, including 20 times
achieving perfect scores, gold medals and/or golden standard.
40 of the 66 were added last year.
Participating in NCC12 is free. Local
students who were born in 1997 to 2004 are eligible. Students
from other areas may also attend if you are able to travel to
Waterloo. To sign up for this contest, you need to download
the registration form, and email the filled form
as attachment to office@grandriverchineseschool.com
by Oct. 31. Other details will be notified
to eligible students by email.
Candidates who plan to write the
contest are recommended to download and read the following two
documents:
How to Prepare for the
NCC12
Rules for Writing the NCC12
The questions and answers for previous
year's contests can be found at NCC08, NCC09, NCC10 and
NCC11.
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