Credit: Mathematical Association of America
coach Po-Shen Loh,Adam Ardeishar, Andrew Gu, Vincent Huang, James Lin, Michael Ren, and Mihir Singhal.
Good job team USA!!!!
Posted on 07/13/2018 10:47:36 AM PDT by BBell
The U.S. team won first place for the third time in four years at the 59th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) which took place in Cluj-Napoca, Romania on July 3-14, 2018, with 116 countries participating. Prior to a fourth place finish in 2017, the U.S. team won first place in 2015 and 2016 in the prestigious international competition. In 2018, the International Mathematical Olympiad brought together the top math students from around the world with 615 student competitors.
The six U.S. team members also took home five gold medals and one silver medal for their individual high scores in the competition, known as the olympics of mathematics competitions for high school students. The first place U.S. team score was 212 out of a possible 252 points. The teams from Russia and China took second and third place respectively in cumulative team scores.
The 2018 U.S. International Mathematical Olympiad team is: Adam Ardeishar, Andrew Gu, Vincent Huang, James Lin, Michael Ren, and Mihir Singhal. Gu, Huang, and Lin are returning team members from 2017 and Lin earned a perfect score.
"We are very happy to place first for the third time in four years, highlighting our country's consistent mathematical talent and problem-solving capabilities among our high school students," said Michael Pearson, executive director of the Mathematical Association of America. "This shows the strength of the MAA American Mathematics Competitions to build the problem-solving skills that students will use in the future to positively impact society. With the IMO team representing the top talent from the more than 300,000 students who participate in the MAA American Mathematics Competitions annually, we can look ahead to a growing population of problem solvers," he said.
Students qualify for the U.S. IMO team by participating in a series of competitions provided by the Mathematical Association of America's competitions program, called the MAA American Mathematics Competitions (AMC). More than 300,000 students participate in the MAA American Mathematics Competitions each year which leads the nation in strengthening the mathematical capabilities of the next generation of problem-solvers. The six U.S. team members joined 70 of their peers from the United States and ten other countries at MAA's Mathematical Olympiad Summer Program in June to immerse themselves in problem solving and train for the IMO and other international competitions like the European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad (EGMO) where the U.S. team, organized by MAA, won second place in April.
The team was accompanied by coach Po-Shen Loh, professor of mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University, and deputy coach Sasha Rudenko, a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University.
IMO scores are based on the number of points scored by individual team members on six problems. On each day of the two-day competition, the teams have 4.5 hours to work on three problems.
Credit: Mathematical Association of America
coach Po-Shen Loh,Adam Ardeishar, Andrew Gu, Vincent Huang, James Lin, Michael Ren, and Mihir Singhal.
Good job team USA!!!!
Good job team USA!!!!
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The names look like the result of legal immigration to me.
Any of these kid's parents NOT born in Asia?
"The 2018 U.S. International Mathematical Olympiad team is: Adam Ardeishar, Andrew Gu, Vincent Huang, James Lin, Michael Ren, and Mihir Singhal. Gu, Huang, and Lin are returning team members from 2017 and Lin earned a perfect score."
Most definitely. I bet they all speak perfect English too.
What NO John Smith what the HELL happened to Caucasian kids on this math team!! We NEED to get our education system back on track!!!
Winning!
And seriously, who cares what their background is. If they’re Americans, they’re Americans.
LOL. uh, notice anything?
There are other ways to win a Math Olympiad.
So? We all gotta come from some where. Most of the ancestry of the US came from Europe.
“I don’t care if every seat is filled by an Asian if they’ve earned the right to be there.” - Ronald Reagan
“Adam Ardeishar, Andrew Gu, Vincent Huang, James Lin, Michael Ren, and Mihir Singhal. Gu, Huang, and Lin”
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Note there is no one in the line of Keyshawn, Latoya or Darrellius in that team (cough). GO USA!
Whitey better start hitting the books.
LOL
My boys compete at elementary local state and national, placing in each. It is true that 90% of their competitors come from a non-American and non-European origins, most are probably first generation from India and China. It is a sad testament to our country’s approach to education and study habits. Competition is tough, requires more than common core math, and requires practice.
So....”the ancestry of the US came from Europe” don’t seem to have the same interest or focus on math....for a variety of reasons.
White people don't count.
My point is that the more recent American immigrants have better focus on STEM than those distracted by the indoctrination curricula of the left.
But, but, but, I thought our schools were the worst of the Western World (if you hear the Democrats talk about it).
Not too shabby. Congrats kids!
BTW, looks like a nice diverse group of Americans.
Proud of our (legal) melting pot!
Sure they will, they're actually holding the American Flag.
And where are the girls - don’t tell me Larry Summers was right, and males really are better than females at mathematical reasoning.....
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