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.
Eh. I can do my gazintas. What else do I really need?
Racist! Based om merit not affirmative diversity.
We have had two grand kids in Math Olympics and winning top math honors through middle school.
The Grand Daughter irrelevantly referred to herself and a young former Russian girls as the female honkies of the math team.
Her younger brother and one other American honky shared the spotlight with Indians from India, Chinese and SE Asians, all males.
Is the girl holding the flag even on the team? She’s not wearing the uniform. This competition is a meritocracy. Go USA.
“Whitey better start hitting the books.”
Too late for many Whitey’s!
Amen!
Who cares what their background is. If they’re Americans, they’re Americans.
DACA DACA DOO.
I think she’s probably part of the Romanian staff. Kind of like the people who hold the signs with the country name in the Olympic opening ceremonies.
Amen!
The team apparently also expelled all the white people. RACISM!
The type of immigrants Trump likes. I hope he invites them to the White House.
Or women.
Obviously the beneficiaries of white privilege.
The males have been told their entire lives that they are worthless pieces of crap and everything bad is their fault and they should just sit there and shut up.
You really have to wonder if public school teachers would recognize a white boy who has an aptitude for math and encourage him in that direction, or would they try to suppress him (pharmaceutically or otherwise) in the name of giving a favored kid a better chance.
That said, congratulations to these kids. They are an excellent example of what can be achieved with LEGAL immigration.
Certainly beats winning the soccer World Cup...
You have to qualify for the World Cup first, D'oh!
The caption quoted in this thread is a little confusing. I'd assume that the seven people named in it are the seven people who aren't in a bear costume, but I looked for the two who don't have names that are traditionally masculine in English. If these search results aren't misleading, these two are male too. I also checked against a small number of other team pictures online.
So my guess now is that these uncostumed people are the six students on the team with someone like a staff member assigned to hold the sign (see post #28), and the team coach named in the caption is not in this picture.
I can imagine a different uniform color and style for girls, though such a practice may be condemned as SEXIST and NON-INCLUSIVE (of those competitors who identify as "genderless," a member of some fifth gender, or as a complex mix of genders that shifts according to the weather and the phases of the moon).
When you are coming up from poverty and hunger, you are focused on the material things make life better. You have no time for pondering microagressions. Give them a couple of generations and they will take all that for granted, just like white kids do today.
The girl is not on the team, I think. There were 6 competitors and six males (they all look male to me) and six male names. Actually I don’t know what to think of the girl being there.
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