Results of “The
Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art” Contest
2015
“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
2015 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 various other
Canadian math contests, and have been listed 241 times on
their honour rolls, including 50 times of perfect scores,
gold, silver and bronze medals and/or golden standard. New
winners since NCC14 last year include:
7 persons on 2014 Canadian Senior
Mathematics Contest Honour Roll
1 person on 2014
Canadian Intermediate Mathematics Contest Honour
Roll
2 persons on 2015 Fermat Contest Honour
Roll
3 persons on 2015 Pascal Contest Honour
Roll
1 person on 2015 Fryer Contest Honour
Roll
5 persons on 2015 Hypatia Contest Honour
Roll
5 persons on 2015 Euclid Contest Honour
Roll
1 person on 2015 Canadian Computing Competition
Honour Roll
1 person on 2015 Beaver Computing
Challenge Honour Roll
1 person on 2015 Thales Contest
Honour Roll
1 person on 2015 Byron-Germain Contest
Honour Roll
3 persons on 2015 Fibonacci Contest
Honour Roll
2 persons on 2015 Pythagoras Contest
Honour Roll
1 person on 2015 Euler Contest Honour
Roll
2 persons on 2015 Gauss Contest Honour
Roll
4 persons on 2015 Canadian Open Mathematics
Challenge Honour Roll
15 persons on 2015 Canadian Math
Kangaroo Competition Honour Roll (3 of them won 1st and 3rd
places in Canada, 11 of them won Waterloo, Guelph or
GTA gold, silver or bronze medals)
Among them,
including
Pascal Contest student
champions:
ALEXANDER
KITAEV
CHOW
STEVEN
Euclid Contest $200 cash prize
winner:
FENGYANG WANG
Beaver
Computing Challenge perferct score:
Kangcheng Ji
Canadian Math Kangaroo Contest 1st place in
Canada:
Wei Ben
Canadian Math
Kangaroo Contest 3rd places in Canada:
Steven Chow
Vlad
Constantinescu
Gauss Contest Perfect
scores:
Eric
Xiao
Jonathan
Li
Congratulations to all of
them!
A total of 105 students wrote the NCC this
year, 17 of them traveled to Waterloo for the contest from
other cities outside KW. Members of NCC Problems Committee
worked very hard for months to design the contest. They
are:
Problems Committee (in alphabetical order of
last name):
Anton Borissov
Wayne Chang
Alex
Gatea
Louis Hong
Helen Hu
Tony Hu
Billy Jin
(Chair)
Rongzhao Li
Will Ma (Advisor)
Fengyang Wang
Ben Wei
Jim Zhang
Contest Student
Honour Roll: The Group of Grades 9 and 10 (12
attendees, group average score 51.8)First Prize:
Steven Chow, Albert Campbell Collegiate
Institute (Scarborough), Score of 105
Second
Prize:
Alexander Kitaev, Waterloo
Collegiate Institute, Score of 90
Third Prize (Tied, in
alphabetical order of last names):
Donnel Ren, Woodland High School, Score of
60
Yun Feng Yu, Waterloo Collegiate
Institue, Score of 60
The Group of Grades 7
and 8 (21 attendees, group average score 53.6)First
Prize:
Andy Dong, Ecole Arbour Vista
Public School (Guelph), Score of 105
Second
Prize:
Andrew Wang, Laurelwood Public
School, Score of 85
Third Prize (Tied, in alphabetical
order of last names):
Kevin Chen,
Laurelwood Public School, Score of 80
Patrick Ze-bing He, Laurelwood Public School, Score of
80
Eric Xiao, Laurelwood Public School,
Score of 80
Honourable Mention:
Eddie
Zhao, Laurelwood Public School, Score of
75
The Group of Grades 5 and 6 (33 attendees, group
average score 64.7)First Prize:
Daniel Yu, Abraham Erb Public School, Score of
100
Second Prize:
Vlad
Constantinescu, Elora Public School (Elora), Score of
95
Third Prize (Tied, in alphabetical order of last
names):
Tian Ye Chen, Laurelwood
Public School, Score of 90
David Gou,
Elizabeth Ziegler Public School, Score of
90
Brendan Wong, Elizabeth Ziegler
Public School, Score of 90
Victor Yao, Waverly Public School (Guelph) , Score
of 90
Honourable Mention:
Dong
He Deng, Waverley Drive Public School (Guelph),
Score of 85
Daniel Pan, Laurelwood
Public School, Score of 85
Tony Liu,
Millen Woods Public School, Score of 85
Jeffery Peng Qiu, Millen Woods Public School, Score of
85
The Group of Grades 4 (21 attendees, group
average score 69.3)First Prize (Tied, in alphabetical
order of last names):
Kevin Huang,
Abraham Erb Public School, Score of
105
Jay Ren, Edna Stabler Public
School, Score of 105
Third Prize:
Bryant Ruan, Lackner Woods Public School, Score of
100
Honourable Mention:
Mia Alexandra
Cadsby, Waverley Drive Public School (Guelph),
Score of 90
Ethan Oyberman,
N.A.McEachern Public School, Score of
90
Sunny Qian, Waverley Drive
Public School (Guelph), Score of 85
Dana
Yuan, J. W. Gerth Public School, Score of 85
The
Group of Grades 3 (18 attendees, group average score
49.4)First Prize:
Derek Chen,
Barondale Public School (Mississauga), Score of
90
Second Prize:
Matthew Liu,
Lester B. Pearson Public School, Score of
80
Third Prize (Tied, in alphabetical order of last
names):
Daphne Lin, J. W. Gerth
Public School, Score of 70
Alexandru
Rusu, Kitchener Waterloo Bilingual School, Score of
70
Daniel Zhang, Abraham Erb Public
School, Score of 70
Honourable
Mention:
Ethan Jeon, Kitchener
Waterloo Bilingual School, Score of 60
The award
ceremony will be held during the Chinese New Year celebration
of Grand River Chinese School in February 2016. 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. 26, 2015
Questions and Solutions of the Nine Chapters
on the Mathematical Art Contest (NCC) 2015
[2015/11/21, updated 2016/01/04]
Cover
Sheet
Solutions
Part
B
Solution
Part
C
Solution
Part
D
Solution
Part
E
Solution
The 8th Nine
Chapters on the Mathematical Art Contest
(NCC15)
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 8th Nine Chapters on the
Mathematical Art Contest (NCC15)" on Nov. 21, 2015, 2:30pm to
4:00pm. Students
achieving outstanding results in the contest will receive
awards and certificates in 5 separate age groups (winners of
grade
3 and grade 4 will be separately awarded).
NCC15 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 2014, NCC has tested 516
participants, many of them further wrote various Canadian math
contests, and have been listed on honour rolls of those
contests for 242 times including 50 times of golden standards,
gold, silver and bronze medals, and perfect
scores.
Participating in NCC15 is free. Local
students who were born in 2000 to 2007 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 NCC15
Rules for Writing the NCC15
The questions and answers for previous
year's contests can be found at
NCC14 NCC13 NCC12 NCC11 NCC10 NCC09 and NCC08.
Grand River Chinese
School
2015/10/05