Results of
“The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art” Contest
2013
“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
2013 is organized by Grand River Chinese School, co-organized
and sponsored by Confucius Institute at the University of
Waterloo, and sponsored by Canadian Mathematical Society.
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 111 times on honour rolls,
including 31 times of perfect scores, gold medals and/or
golden standard. New winners since NCC’12 last year
include:
6 persons on 2012 Canadian Senior Mathematics
Contest Honour Roll
1 person on 2012 Canadian
Intermediate Mathematics Contest Honour Roll
2 persons on
2013 Cayley Contest Honour Roll
2 persons on 2013 Fermat
Contest Honour Roll
4 persons on 2013 Pascal Contest
Honour Roll
2 persons on 2013 Fryer Contest Honour
Roll
3 persons on 2013 Galois Contest Honour Roll
4
persons on 2013 Hypatia Contest Honour Roll
3 persons on
2013 Euclid Contest Honour Roll
2 persons on 2013
Canadian Computing Competition Honour Roll
4 person on
2013 Canadian Computing Competition (2nd Phase) Honour
Roll
1 person on 2013 Thales Contest Honour Roll
4
persons on 2013 Byron-Germain Contest Honour Roll
2
persons on 2013 Fibonacci Contest Honour Roll
1 person on
2013 Pythagoras Contest Honour Roll
2 person on 2013
Gauss Contest Honour Roll
1 person won 2013 International
Math Kangaroo Competition Silver Award
1 person on 2012
Canadian Open Mathematics Challenge Honour
Roll
Among them, including
Fryer Contest Gold Standard
:
LISA BIAN
ELBERT LAI
Galois Contest Gold Standard
:
EDWARD LU
TIM
MIN
FENGYANG WANG
Hypatia Contest
Gold Standard :
TING HAN HU
BILLY JIN
RONGZHAO LI
ZHEMIN
ZHANG
Gauss Contest perfect score:
Erica Li
Lanny Wang
CCC 2nd phase
silver medalist:
JIM
ZHANG
Congratulations to all of
them!
The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art
Contest achieved a new record this year. A total of 97
students wrote the contest, some of them traveled over 100 km
to Waterloo. Members of NCC Problems Committee worked very
hard for months to design the contest. They
are:
Problems Committee (in alphabetical order):
Shalev Ben-David (Advisor))
Wayne
Chang
Helen Hu
Amlesh Jayakumar (Advisor)
Billy
Jin
Rongzhao Li
Will Ma (Advisor)
Ann Zhang
(Chair)
Henry Zhu
Contest Student Honour
Roll: The Group of Grades 9 and 10 (16
attendees, group average score 60.00)First Prize:
Elbert Lai, Waterloo Collegiate Institute, Score of
105
Second Prize:
Richard Chow, Albert Campbell
Collegiate Institute (Scarborough), Score of 100
Third
Prize:
Thomas Ma, Waterloo Collegiate Institute, Score of
85
Honourable Mention:
Lisa Bian, Waterloo Collegiate
Institute, Score of 80
Evan Wang, St. David Catholic
Secondary School, Score of 80
Andrew Ilyas, Waterloo
Collegiate Institute, Score of 75
The Group of
Grades 7 and 8 (30 attendees, group average score
62.67)First Prize:
Steven Chow, Macklin Public
School (Scarborough), Score of 115
Second
Prize:
Alexander Kitaev, Centenial Public School, Score of
105
Third Prize:
Lanney F. Wang, Courtland Ave. Public
School, Score of 95
Honourable Mention:
Sihao Ban,
Centenial Public School, Score of 90
Jeffrey Lin,
Laurelwood Public School, Score of 85
Andrew Yuan,
Centenial Public School, Score of 85
The Group of
Grades 5 and 6 (21 attendees, group average score
71.90)First Prize:
Andrew Wang, Abraham Erb Public
School, Score of 110
Second Prize (Tied, in alphabetical
order):
Fuyang Deng, Elizabeth Ziegler Public School, Score
of 100
Rachel Kim, Elizabeth Ziegler Public School, Score
of 100
Emily Wan, Kitchener-Waterloo Bilingual School,
Score of 100
Honourable Mention:
Yizhuo Chen, Abraham
Erb Public School, Score of 90
Patrick Ze-bing He, Abraham
Erb Public School, Score of 90
Victor Wei, Elizabeth
Ziegler Public School, Score of 90
The Group of
Grades 3 and 4 (30 attendees, group average score
72.5)First Prize:
Daniel Yu, Edna Staebler Public
School, Score of 120
Second Prize (Tied, in alphabetical
order):
Jessica Diao, Keatsway Public School, Score of
105
David Gou, Millen Woods Public School, Score of
105
Amber Tang, Sandowne Public School, Score of
105
Honourable Mention:
Daniel Pan, Laurelwood Public
School, Score of 100
Jeffery Peng Qiu, Millen Woods Public
School, Score of 95
Tianye Chen, Laurelwood Public School,
Score of 90
The award ceremony will be held during the
Chinese New Year celebration of Grand River Chinese School in
February 2014. 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 NCC13
Nov. 24,
2013
Questions and Solutions of the Nine Chapters
on the Mathematical Art Contest (NCC) 2013
[2013/11/16]
Cover
Sheet Solutions
Part
B
Solution
Part
C
Solution
Part
D
Solution
Part
E
Solution
The 6th Nine
Chapters on the Mathematical Art Contest (NCC13)
[2013/10/13]
Co-organized and sponsored by
Confucius Institute at the University of Waterloo, and
sponsored by Canadian Mathematical Society, Grand River
Chinese School will host "The 6th Nine Chapters on the
Mathematical Art Contest (NCC13)" on Nov. 16, 2013, 2:30pm to
4:00pm. Students
achieving outstanding results in the contest will receive
awards and certificates.
NCC13 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 NCC 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).
During 2008 to 2012, NCC has tested 327
participants, many of them further wrote various Canadian math
contests, 108 of whom have been listed on honour rolls of
those contests and 30 times they obtained golden standards,
gold medals, or perfect scores.
Participating in NCC13 is free. Local
students who were born in 1998 to 2005 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 NCC13
Rules for Writing the NCC13
The questions and answers for previous
year's contests can be found at NCC12 NCC11 NCC10 NCC09 and NCC08.
Grand River Chinese
School