{"id":973,"date":"2014-05-19T12:03:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T19:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impact\/?p=973"},"modified":"2015-04-23T10:05:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T17:05:46","slug":"who-wants-to-be-a-mathematician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impact\/2014\/05\/who-wants-to-be-a-mathematician\/","title":{"rendered":"Who wants to be a Mathematician"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past weekend the Department of Mathematics hosted the 34th<\/sup> Annual Oregon Invitational Mathematics Tournament. Top high school\u00a0math\u00a0students from across the state arrived on campus at 7:45 a.m. on a Saturday morning to take exams and participate in math activities.<\/p>\n

The love of math and the possibility of winning cash prizes were apparently compelling to draw them to Corvallis.<\/p>\n

Students are invited to compete based on their performances at regional contests held across the state. Those with exceptional scores on the AMC-10 and AMC-12 exams may also be invited or simply register.<\/p>\n

Students compete for cash and prizes by answering multiple choice mathematics questions. For example, assigned team events tackled both Precalculus\/Calculus and Geometry\/Algebra II.\u00a0The day culminated in a final competition called \u201cWho wants to be a Mathematician.\u201d<\/p>\n

American Mathematical Society (AMS) representative Mike Breen and DePaul University Professor William Butterworth, who developed the national “Who Wants to be a Mathematician<\/em><\/i>” competition, hosted the contest. AMS donates cash prizes for the annual statewide math contests.<\/p>\n

The eight finalists were:\u00a0 Andrew Bai of Jesuit High School, Markab Han of Sunset Middle School, Andrew Yang of Westview High School, Ashwin Sah\u00a0Jesuit High School, Tyler Snook and Yiting Zhou both of\u00a0Valley Catholic High School, Justin Bao of Stoller Middle School and Swati Garg of Westview High School.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s overall winner was Ashwin Sah of Jesuit High School in Portland who received $3,000. Hear Ashwin talk about his victory on YouTube<\/a>. He has\u00a0finished second in MathCounts the past two years.\u00a0Andrew Yang was the runner up who received $2,000. Read more results here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Group <\/div> <\/div>
\"Winners\" <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

For\u00a0a little math humor, the oversized representative checks pictured were numbered \u201cpi\u201d and \u201ce.\u201d<\/p>\n

College of Science Dean Sastry Pantula offered remarks at the closing awards ceremony to the high school students, their parents and teachers. Mathematics Department chair Tom Dick<\/a> worked with students and faculty all yearlong to plan, prepare for and organize the day\u2019s festivities.<\/p>\n

The Oregon Council of Teachers of Mathematics donated the award medal to the top 10 contestants in each exam category. The Mathematics Department of Linn-Benton Community College and Oregonians for Science Reason attended to offer their support and encouragement to the young mathematicians.<\/p>\n

To see more photos from the day, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Top high school math students from across the state visited campus to take exams and participate in math activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1507,641666],"tags":[482],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-and-staff","category-mt","tag-outreach"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6vHeb-fH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7391,"url":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impact\/2017\/06\/osu-mathematics-hosts-2017-oregon-invitational-math-tournament\/","url_meta":{"origin":973,"position":0},"title":"2017 Oregon Invitational Math Tournament hosted on campus","author":"Katharine de Baun","date":"June 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Young mathematicians from across the state participated in the 37th Annual Oregon Invitational Math Tournament (OIMT) at OSU.","rel":"","context":"In "Events"","block_context":{"text":"Events","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impact\/category\/news\/events-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1899,"url":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impact\/2015\/07\/math-student-nabs-osus-top-graduate-teaching-assistant-award\/","url_meta":{"origin":973,"position":1},"title":"Math student nabs top graduate teaching assistant award","author":"farrisd","date":"July 22, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cI can do anything. 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