Results of “The
Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art” Contest
2014
“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
2014 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 186 times on honour rolls,
including 42 times of perfect scores, gold, silver and bronze
medals and/or golden standard. New winners since NCC’13 last
year include:
5 persons on 2013 Canadian Senior Mathematics
Contest Honour Roll
2 persons on 2013 Canadian
Intermediate Mathematics Contest Honour Roll
3 persons on
2014 Cayley Contest Honour Roll
4 persons on 2014 Fermat
Contest Honour Roll
2 persons on 2014 Pascal Contest
Honour Roll
3 persons on 2014 Galois Contest Honour
Roll
7 persons on 2014 Hypatia Contest Honour Roll
5
persons on 2014 Euclid Contest Honour Roll
8 persons on
2014 Canadian Computing Competition Honour Roll
2 persons
on 2014 Canadian Computing Olympiad Honour Roll
1 person
on 2014 Thales Contest Honour Roll
5 persons on 2014
Byron-Germain Contest Honour Roll
2 persons on 2014
Fibonacci Contest Honour Roll
3 persons on 2014
Pythagoras Contest Honour Roll
1 person on 2014 Euler
Contest Honour Roll
1 person on 2014 Lagrange Contest
Honour Roll
6 persons on 2014 Gauss Contest Honour
Roll
3 persons on 2013 Canadian Open Mathematics
Challenge Honour Roll
12 persons on 2014 Canadian Math
Kangaroo Competition Honour Roll (11 of them also won
Waterloo, Guelph or GTA gold or silver
medals)
Among them, including
Fermat Contest West Ontario
Champion:
WANG FENGYANG
Canadian
Computing Olympiad Silver Medallists:
FENGYANG WANG
ZHEMIN ZHANG
Thales
Contest 2nd Place in Canada:
CHEN
STEVEN
Canadian Open Mathematics Challenge “Best in
Canada” bronze medal and "Best in Ontario” silver
medal:
Steven Chow
Gauss Contest
Perfect scores:
Daniel
Cheriyan
Odelia
Chen
Henry Hu
Jeffrey Lin
Donnel
Ren
Steven
Chow
Congratulations to all of
them!
A total of 92 students wrote the NCC this
year, 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 of last name):
Shalev Ben-David (Advisor)
Anton
Borissov
Wayne Chang
Helen Hu
Billy Jin
(Chair)
Rongzhao Li
Will Ma (Advisor)
Tom
Peng
Fengyang Wang
Jim Zhang
Contest
Student Honour Roll: The Group of Grades 9 and
10 (15 attendees, group average score 51.3)First
Prize:
Ben Wei, Waterloo Collegiate Institute, Score of
115
Second Prize:
Steven Chow, Albert Campbell
Collegiate Institute (Scarborough), Score of 110
Third
Prize:
Alexander Kitaev, Waterloo Collegiate Institute,
Score of 75
Honourable Mention:
Yixiong Sun, Carmeron
Heights Collegiate Institute, Score of 65
The Group
of Grades 7 and 8 (20 attendees, group average score
56.3)First Prize (Tied, in alphabetical order of last
names):
Jonathan Li, Laurelwood Public School, Score of
105
Andrew Wang, Laurelwood Public School, Score of
105
Third Prize:
Donnel Ren, Home School, Score of
90
Honourable Mention:
Alex Xu, Heritage Glen Public
School (Oakville), Score of 80
Hao Yun, Queensmount Public
School, Score of 75
The Group of Grades 5 and 6 (28
attendees, group average score 67.1)First
Prize:
David Gou, Elizabeth Ziegler Public School, Score of
100
Second Prize:
Victor Wei, Elizabeth Ziegler Public
School, Score of 95
Third Prize (Tied, in alphabetical
order of last names):
Tianye Chen, Laurelwood Public
School, Score of 85
Emily Wan, Kitchener-Waterloo Bilingual
School, Score of 85
Honourable Mention:
Alex Deng,
Sandhills Public School, Score of 80
Aleksandar Pejanovic,
Queen Elizabeth Public School, Score of 80
Sijia Li,
Sandhill Public School, Score of 75
Michelle Ma, Abraham
Erb Public School, Score of 75
Thomas Vukovic, St.
John's-Kilmarnock School, Score of 75
Daniel Yu, Edna
Staebler Public School, Score of 75
The Group of
Grades 4 (10 attendees, group average score 75.0)First
Prize:
Jeffery Peng Qiu, Millen Woods Public School, Score
of 110
Second Prize:
Brendan Wong, Lackner Woods Public
School, Score of 100
Third Prize:
Harry Wang, Edna
Staebler Public School, Score of 85
Honourable
Mention:
Steven Chen, Edna Staebler Public School, Score of
80
The Group of Grades 3 (19 attendees, group
average score 59.5)First Prize (Tied, in alphabetical
order of last names):
Mia Alexandra Cadsby, Ecole Arbour
Vista Public School (Guelph), Score of 100
Bryant Ruan,
Lackner Woods Public School, Score of 100
Third
Prize:
Jay Ren, Edna Staebler Public School, Score of
95
Honourable Mention:
Melinda Caringal, St. Matthew
Catholic School, Score of 80
Jason Li, Edna Staebler Public
School, Score of 75
Yinuo Lin, Lester B. Pearson Public
School, Score of 70
Anke Mok, Richmond Hill Christian
Academy, Score of 70
The award ceremony will be held
during the Chinese New Year celebration of Grand River Chinese
School in February 2015. 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 NCC
Nov. 29, 2014
Questions and Solutions of the Nine Chapters
on the Mathematical Art Contest (NCC) 2014
[2014/11/22 updated 2014/12/31]
Cover
Sheet
Solutions
Part
B
Solution
Part
C
Solution
Part
D
Solution
Part
E
Solution
Part
F
Solution
The 7th Nine
Chapters on the Mathematical Art Contest
(NCC14)
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 7th Nine Chapters on the
Mathematical Art Contest (NCC14)" on Nov. 22, 2014, 2:30pm to
4:00pm. Students
achieving outstanding results in the contest will receive
awards and certificates in 5 separate age groups (new this
year: winners of grade
3 and grade 4 will be separately awarded).
NCC14 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 2013, NCC has tested 424
participants, many of them further wrote various Canadian math
contests, and have been listed on honour rolls of those
contests for 186 times including 42 times of golden standards,
gold, silver and bronze medals, and perfect
scores.
Participating in NCC14 is free. Local
students who were born in 1999 to 2006 are eligible. Students
from other areas may also attend if they are able to travel to
Waterloo for the contest. 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 NCC14
Rules for Writing the NCC14
The questions and answers for previous
year's contests can be found at NCC13 NCC12 NCC11 NCC10 NCC09 and NCC08.
Grand River Chinese
School
2014/10/05