Results of “The
Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art” Contest
2018
“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
2018 is organized by Grand River Chinese School, co-organized
and sponsored by Confucius Institute in 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 454 times on their honour
rolls, including 93 times of distinguished awards and
achievements such perfect scores, gold, silver and bronze
awards and golden standard. New winners since NCC17 last year
include:
5 persons on 2017 Canadian Senior Mathematics
Contest Honour Roll
3 person on 2017 Canadian
Intermediate Mathematics Contest Honour Roll
3 persons on
2018 Pascal Contest Honour Roll
3 persons on 2018 Cayley
Contest Honour Roll
3 persons on 2018 Fermat Contest
Honour Roll
3 person on 2018 Fryer Contest Honour
Roll
3 persons on 2018 Hypatia Contest Honour
Roll
3 persons on 2018 Euclid Contest Honour
Roll
1 person on 2018 Gauss Contest Honour Roll
3
persons on 2018 Thales Contest Honour Roll
2 persons on
2018 Byron-Germain Contest Honour Roll
3 persons on 2018
Fibonacci Contest Honour Roll
5 persons on 2018
Pythagoras Contest Honour Roll
1 person on 2018
Euler Contest Honour Roll
2 person on 2018 Lagrange
Contest Honour Roll
1 person on 2018 Newton Contest
Honour Roll
17 persons on 2018 Canadian Math Kangaroo
Competition Honour Roll
5 persons on 2017 Canadian
Open Mathematics Challenge Honour Roll with 7 prizes
2
persons on 2017 Beaver Computing Challenge Honour
Roll
4 persons on 2018 Canadian Computing
Competition Honour Roll
Among them,
including
Pascal Contest Champion：
CRISTIAN
BICHERU
Canadian
Senior Math Contest Champions:
STEVEN
CHOW
ZHENING LI
Beaver
Computing Challenge perfect score:
Lily Ge
Thales Champion and perfect
score：
XU SUNNY
Byron-Germain Champion and perfect score:
WALTER
KERI
Fibonacci Champions
and perfect score:
HE JASON
JEON
ETHAN
RUSU ALEXANDRU
Pythagoras Champion and perfect
score:
BAL JULIAN
Newton Champion and perfect
score:
BICHERU CRISTIAN
COMC Best in Canada Grade 9 Bronze
Award:
Andrew Dong
Best in Ontario Grade 9 Gold
Award:
Andrew Dong
Best in Southwestern Ontario Grade 10 Gold
Award:
Henry Hu
Best in Southwestern Ontario Grage
9
Gold
Award:
Andrew Dong
Silver Award:
Zhening
Li
Gauss Contest
perfect score:
Scott Hao
Congratulations to all of
them!
A total of 118 students wrote the NCC this
year, 19 of them traveled to Waterloo for the contest from
other cities outside KW.
Problems
Committee (in alphabetical order of last name):
Laindon Burnett
Wayne Chang
Tony
Hu
Billy Jin (Advisor)
Mohamed El Mandouh
Akshay
Tiwary
Andrew Wang
Fengyang Wang (Chair)
Ben
Wei
Contest Honour Roll: The
Group of Grades 9 and 10 (16 attendees, group average score
79.4)Gold Award:
Andy Dong,
Centennial Collegiate Vocational Institute (Guelph),
Score of 100
Silver Award:
Tianye Chen, Sir John A. Macdonald Secondary School, Score
of 90
David Gou, Waterloo
Collegiate Institute, Score of 90
Bronze
Award:
Yitong Wan, Waterloo Collegiate
Institute, Score of 85
Victor Wei,
Cameron Heights Collegiate Institute, Score of
85
Eric Xiao, Sir John A. Macdonald
Secondary School, Score of 85
The Group of
Grades 7 and 8 (32 attendees, group average score
83.8)Gold Award:
Dana Yuan, Doon
Public School, Score of 110
Silver Award:
Scott Hao, Kitchener-Waterloo Bilingual
School, Score of 105
Jeffery Peng
Qiu, Lester B. Pearson Public School, Score of
105
Jay Ren, Vista Hills Public School,
105
Bronze Award:
Rena Chang. Wavely
Avenue Public School (Guelph), Score of
100
Luke Clausi, Kitchener-Waterloo
Bilingual School, Score of 100
Tony Liu, Lester B Pearson Public School, Score of
100
Harry Wang, Vista Hill Public
School, Score of 100分
Nikhil
Ghookal, Kitchener-Waterloo Bilingual School, Score of
95
Hardit Singh, Centennial Public
School, Score of 95
Brendan
Wong, Centennial Public School, Score of
95
The Group of Grades 5 and 6 (29 attendees, group
average score 96.0)Gold Award:
Daphne Lin, J.W. Gerth Pubilc School, Score of
120
Silver Award:
Jason He,
Kitchener-Waterloo Bilingual School, Score of
115
Ethan Hyo Jeon, Kitchener-Waterloo
Bilingual School, Score of 115
Jerry Wang, Laurelwood Public School, Score of
115
Daniel Zhong, Orchard Park
Public School (London), Score of 115
Bronze
Award:
Jerry Liu, Abraham Erb Public
School, Score of 110
Kevin
Park, Edna Staebler Public School, Score of
110
Alexandru Rusu, Kitchener-Waterloo
Bilingual School, Score of 110
Keri Walter, Kitchener-Waterloo Bilingual School, Score
of 110
The Group of Grades 4 (24 attendees,
group average score 100.2)Gold Award:
Gurnoor Kaur,
Kitchener-Waterloo Bilingual School, Score of 115
Joseph Yu
Xiang, Laurelwood Public School, Score of 115
Sunny
Mei Xu, Vista Hill Public School, Score of 115
Silver
Award:
Tony Chang, Wavely Avenue Public School (Guelph),
Score of 110
Chenglong Li, J.W. Gerth Public
School, Score of 110
Tianshu Van Altena, Highland
Public School, Score of 110
Bronze Award:
Kevin Chang,
J.W. Gerth Public School, Score of 105
Jeffrey Chen,
Waverley Drive Public School (Guelph), Score of
105
Austin Dong, J.W. Gerth Public School, Score of
105
Yanfeng Shang, Suddaby Public School, Score of
105
Jackson Steffler, Kitchener-Waterloo Bilingual School,
Score of 105
Max Weinstein, Kitchener-Waterloo Bilingual
School, Score of 105
The Group of Grades 3 (17
attendees, group average score 82.9)Gold
Award:
Justin Li, J.W. Gerth Public School, Score of
115
Silver Award:
Aydan Jia, Laurelwood Public School,
110
Hanson Xia, Aberfoyle Public School (Puslinch), Score
of 110
Bronze Award:
Yiqiao Li, Laurelwood Public
School, Score of 100
Abigail Lin,W.T. Townshend Public
School, Score of 95
Michael Kitaev, Empire Public School,
Score of 90
The award ceremony will be held during the
Chinese New Year celebration of Grand River Chinese School on
February 2, 2019. 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
Dec. 6, 2018
Questions and Solutions of the Nine Chapters
on the Mathematical Art Contest (NCC) 2018
[2018/11/24]
Cover
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Solutions
Part
A
Solution
Part
B
Solution
Part
C
Solution
Part
D
Solution
Part
E
Solution
Part
F
Solution
The 11th Nine Chapters on the
Mathematical Art Contest (NCC18)
Co-organized and sponsored by Confucius
Institute in Waterloo, and sponsored by Canadian Mathematical
Society, Grand River Chinese School will host "The 11th Nine
Chapters on the Mathematical Art Contest (NCC18)" on Nov. 24,
2018, 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).
NCC18 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 2017, NCC has tested 827 participants, many of them
further wrote various Canadian math contests, and have been
listed on honour rolls of those contests for 457 times
including 92 times of golden standards, gold, silver and
bronze medals, perfect scores, national and regional
champions.
Participating in NCC18 is free. Local students
who were born in 2003 to 2010 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 NCC18
Rules for Writing the NCC18
The
questions and answers for previous year's contests can be
found at NCC17 NCC16 NCC15 NCC14 NCC13 NCC12 NCC11 NCC10 NCC09 and NCC08.
Grand
River Chinese School
2018/10/03