New Zealand’s training squad for the 2010 International Mathematical Olympiad was announced last Friday. The final team of six to travel to Astana, Kazakhstan will be decided in April.
The 2010 January Camp was held last week at Rangi Ruru Girls’ School in Christchurch, attended by 24 students from throughout New Zealand. Below are some images from the week.
Seventeen students from New Zealand took part in Round 1 of the British Mathematical Olympiad this month; our top six (scores out of 60) were
Congratulations to all these students, and especially to Malcolm and Scott, whose names appear among the top 23 overall on the BMOC site.
A big thanks goes to the BMOC, for allowing us to take part.
Chris
A number of students from New Zealand recently took part in round 1 of the British Mathematics Olympiad. Results will be available later in December, or early in January. In the mean time you might enjoy looking at the problems, or possibly the solutions (in video form) featuring a mystery guest star in question 6.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the September problems. We had a large number of high quality entries this year, which will give us an excellent pool from which to select the participants for January’s camp in Christchurch. Let me just take this opportunity to remind you that we treat these problems as a filter rather than a competition. In other words we will not be releasing scores or rankings, simply using them to make the decision about whom to invite to the camp. Anyhow, a number of you have expressed interest in seeing the solutions, so here they are.
Do keep in mind that these are only possible solutions. For maths problems of this type, there is generally more than one correct path (but, unfortunately also many more incorrect paths!) towards a solution. You may well have found (or thought you found) a better one. The evaluation of your papers is done on their individual merits, not by comparison to any sort of a standard or official solution.
The deadline for you to submit your solutions to the September Problems is tomorrow, 21st October… But! I will be away on leave from the 21st to the 28th, so the effective deadline for submission is 29th October 2009. All submissions received by this date (hard copies only, please – I’d prefer that solutions not be submitted by email) will be treated as having arrived on time.
I’ve received nearly 80 submissions so far. If I received your submission by Tuesday 20th October you should have got an email back from me acknowledging it (provided you gave me a legible address on your form). Solutions received after the 20th will be acknowledged after my return.
- Chris Tuffley
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