The
Eastern Shore High School
Mathematics Competition
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The 25th Annual Eastern Shore
High School Mathematics Competition
took place on Wednesday, November 12, 2008.
===== About the Competition -
Math
Talks - Past Years' Exams - 2008 Winners
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About the Competition:
The focus of the day is a fun and challenging mathematics
competition, focusing on both individual and cooperative achievement.
High Schools from the region may enter teams of up to three students in
the competition. The competition consists of two rounds:
the individual round, and the team round.
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The team round presents each school's team with four or five challenging, open-ended problems. To solve these problems, the team members are allowed
(and encouraged) to work together. Each team is to provide
complete solutions to as many problems as possible, including justification
of all steps and clear, concise explanations. The use of calculators is permitted during the team round.
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The individual round has each
student, working independently, answer twenty multiple choice questions.
Winners are chosen based on the number of questions answered correctly; there is no penalty
for incorrect answers. The use of calculators is not permitted during
the individual round.
Subject areas
covered by contest questions include: algebra, geometry,
functions and functional notation, exponents and logarithms,
trigonometry, probability and statistics, logic and
set theory, arithmetic sequences, geometric series, and
number theory. We also share a lunch buffet with the students, where
awards are presented to the three students with the highest scores in the
individual round of the contest and to the three teams with the highest
scores in the team round.
Math Talks:
In addition to the competition, students are invited
to participate in a brief workshop on a mathematical topic they probably
won't see in high school. Recent topics have included:
(For a more complete list of previous years' talks and
speakers, click
here.)
Past Years' Exams:
Here are some links to previous years' exams. These files are in Adobe Portable Document Format
(PDF). You will need the (free) Adobe Acrobat Reader to view them.
===== About the Competition -
Math
Talks - Past Years' Exams - 2008 Winners
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2008 Winners:
TEAMS
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1st Place:
Salisbury School Team: Emily Farr, Robyn Glass,
Kyle Lewis
Coach: Conrad Wachter
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2nd Place:
Gunston Day School Team: Joseph Hong, Steven
Yang, Winny Youn
Coach: Karen Melhunek
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3rd Place:
Salisbury Christian School Team: Phillip
Demling, InHawn Kim, Tony Park
Coach: Lisa Timmons
INDIVIDUALS
- 1st Place: Ross
Roessler, Worcester Preparatory School
- 2nd Place:
Yunmin Ni, Stephen Decatur High School
- 3rd Place (tie):
Derek Wu,
James M. Bennett High School;
Howard Christopher, Saints Peter and Paul High School
Each of the students listed on this page won a U.S. Savings Bond as well as
a book
prize.
===== About the Competition -
Math
Talks - Past Years' Exams - 2008 Winners
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For more information, please contact one of the
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