Results of “The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art” Contest 2024
“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 2024 is organized
by Grand River Chinese School, and sponsored by Canadian Mathematical
Society. A total of 73 students wrote the NCC this year.
NCC
began in 2008, and has tested 1304 attendees. The attendees of NCC have
achieved a lot of distinctive honours in various other Canadian math
contests. By 2019, attendees of NCC have
been listed 568 times on their honour rolls, including 118 times of
distinguished awards and achievements such perfect scores, gold, silver
and bronze awards and golden standard (after 2019, we no longer gather
NCC attendee data in other Canadian contests).
Problems Committee this year (in alphabetical order of last name):
Laindon Burnett (advisor)
Benjamin Yuhao Dong
Jerry Jia
Lucas Zhu (chair)
Contest Honour Roll:
The Group of Grades 9 and 10 (14 attendees, group median score 40)
Gold Award:
Justin Li, Huron Heights Public School, Score of 90
Silver Award:
Richard Zhang，Laurel Heights Secondary School，Score of 75
Bronze Award:
Chenglong Li, Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute,
Score of 70
The Group of Grades 7 and 8 (21 attendees, group median score 50)
Gold Award:
Hayden Huang, KW Bilingual School, Score of 95
Silver Award:
Brianna Bicheru, KW Bilingual School, Score of 75
Gavin Chen, Laurelwood Public School, Score of 70
Bronze Award:
Aria Luo, Laurelwood Public School, Score of 65
Annabelle He, KW Bilingual School, Score of 60
Ryan Xie, KW Bilingual School, Score of 60
The Group of Grades 5 and 6 (13 attendees, group median score 45)
Gold Award:
Sophia Huang, Laurelwood Public School,
Score of 90
Silver Award:
Haorui Wu, Millenwoods Public School, Score of 75
Bronze Award:
Oliver Yang, Mary Johnston Public School,
Score of 65
The Group of Grades 4 (12 attendees, group median score 60)
Gold Award:
Joey Feng, Abraham Erb Public School,
Score of 90
Silver Award:
Andrew Williams, Millen Woods Public School,
Score of 85
Bronze Award:
Jia Yu, KW Bilingual School,
Score of 75
The Group of Grades 3 (13 attendees, group median score 60)
Gold Award:
Austin Li, KW Bilingual School,
Score of 70
Yunyi Zhang, Laurelwood Public School,
Score of 70
Bronze Award:
Elaine De Sterck, N A MacEachern Public School,
Score of 65
Wenbin Guan, Laurelwood Public School,
Score of 65
Freya Zhang, Wilson Avenue Public School,
Score of 65
The
award ceremony will be held during the Chinese New Year celebration of
Grand River Chinese School on February 8, 2025. The above winners will
receive their certificates and trophies/medals. Other students who want
to know their scores may email office@grandriverchineseschool.com.
Organizing Committee of NCC
Dec
3, 2024
Questions and Solutions of the Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art Contest (NCC) 2024
[2024/11/23]
Cover Sheet Solutions (to be uploaded)
Part B Solution
Part C Solution
Part D Solution
Part E Solution
The
15th
Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art Contest (NCC24)
Sponsored
by Canadian Mathematical Society, Grand River Chinese School will host
"The 15th
Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art Contest (NCC24)"
on Nov. 23
2024,
2:30pm to 4:00pm. Students achieving outstanding results in the
contest will receive awards and certificates in 5 separate age
groups.
NCC24
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 2023,
NCC has tested 1231
participants, many of them further wrote various Canadian math
contests, and have been listed on honour rolls of those contests (by
2019) for
568 times including 118 times of golden standards, gold, silver and
bronze medals, perfect scores, national and regional champions.
Participating
in NCC24
is free. Local students who were born in 2009
to 2016
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 submit registration form here 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 NCC24
Rules for Writing the NCC24
The
questions and answers for previous year's contests can be found at
NCC23
NCC22
NCC19
NCC18 NCC17 NCC16 NCC15 NCC14 NCC13 NCC12 NCC11 NCC10 NCC09 and
NCC08.
Grand
River Chinese School
2024/10/06