The Nine
Chapters on the Mathematical Art Contest
(NCC)
NCC is a contest, named after the
Chinese ancient classic book
"The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical
Art" (wiki). Every
November, since 2008, the Grand River Chinese
School (GRCS) has offered NCC as an annual
traditional 1 hour and 15 minute math
contest for students of Grade 3 through Grade 10.
NCC is a "warm-up" contest of major Canadian math
contests of same grade levels, such as
Thales, Byron-Germain,
Fibonacci, Pythagoras, Gauss, Pascal and Cayley
Contests.
NCC is organized by
GRCS, sponsored by Canadian mathematical Society
(CMS), during 2009 to 2022, it was also by co-organized and sponsored by
Confucius Institute in Waterloo.
During 2008 to 2024, NCC has
tested 1304 participants, many of them further
wrote various Canadian math contests, and
they have been listed on honour rolls of
those contests (by 2019) for 568 times, among them
including 118 times winning
golden
standards, gold, silver and bronze medals, national or
regional champion, national
or regional gold, silver or
bronze awards,
or perfect scores.