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AMC 2020 Signups!

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This year we are offering TWO AMC competition dates!

The AMC10/12A will take place on Thursday, 1/30/20 from 9:40 to 11:10am in Plimpton. [You’d miss F period and the first 10 minutes of G period. It’s a green Thursday.]

The AMC10/12B will take place on Wednesday, 2/5/20 from 9:40 to 11:10am in Plimpton. [You’d miss E period and assembly. It’s a blue Wednesday.]

Student can sign up for BOTH competitions! [They are the same difficulty.]

A strong AMC score can be an EXCELLENT thing to submit on college applications! (It’s TOTALLY optional to submit your score.)

For complete competition information and to sign up, please head over to this page.

Posted in: AMC 10/12

Sign up for the AMC 10/12 2019!

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The AMC 10/12 will be run on Wednesday, February 13th from 8:30 to 10am in Plimpton.

You can sign up right here.

The competition is open to all Williston students who are taking at least Algebra 2.

Generally speaking, students students in Algebra 2 Honors or above should sign up for the AMC10 and students in Precalculus Honors or above should sign up for the AMC12.

There are 20 spots available for each competition. Spots will be filled on a first come, first served basis.

You can learn more about the competition right here.

Practice problems can be viewed here.

Competitors will miss D period and the first 30 minutes of E period on the day of the competition. Competitors are REQUIRED to speak to their D and E period teachers the week before the competition in order to prearrange how to best complete all make up work.

Email questions to Mr. Seamon at jseamon@williston.com

Posted in: AMC 10/12

2018 – 2019 Competition Dates

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Here are the preliminary competition dates for 2018-2019!

[Competition, Date, Type, Level, Location]

NEML HS 1 (Oct 15, 2018, Individual, All, On campus)
WPI (Oct 16, 2018, Individual & Team, HS – Select, Travel – WPI)
Yale Girls (Nov 3, 2018, Individual & Team, HS – Select, Travel – Yale)
HMMT November (Nov 10, 2018, Individual & Team, HS – Select, Travel – Harvard)
AMC 8 (Nov 13, 2018, Individual, MS, On campus)
NEML HS 2 (Nov 14, 2018, Individual, All, On campus)
PUMaC (Nov 17, 2018, Individual & Team, HS – Select, Travel – Princeton)
NEML HS 3 (Dec 11, 2018, Individual, All, On campus)
NEML HS 4 (Jan 14, 2019, Individual, All, On campus)
NEML HS 5 (Feb 11, 2019, Individual, All, On campus)
AMC 10/12 B (Feb 13, 2019, Individual, HS – All, On campus – Qualifier)
HMMT February (Feb 16, 2019, Individual & Team, HS – Select, Travel – MIT)
NEML: 7th Grade (Feb 19, 2019, Individual, MS, On campus)
NEML: 8th Grade (Feb 19, 2019, Individual, MS, On campus)
AIME I (Mar 13, 2019, Individual, HS – Select, On campus – Qualifier)
NEML HS 6 (Mar 25, 2019, Individual, All, On campus)
AIME II (Mar 21, 2019, Individual, HS – Select, On campus)
NEML: Algebra 1 (Apr 15, 2019, Individual, MS, On campus)
USAMO Day 1 (Apr 17, 2019, Individual, HS – Select, On campus)
USAMO Day 2 (Apr 18, 2019, Individual, HS – Select, On campus)
Yale (April, Individual & Team, HS – Select, Travel – Yale)
Exeter Math Club Comp (January, Individual & Team, MS, Travel – Exeter)
Wilbraham and Monson (March, Individual & Team, MS, Travel – WPI)
Deerfield Math Comp (May, Individual & Team, MS, Travel – Deerfield)

Posted in: AIME, AMC 10/12, AMC 8, HMMT, NEML, USAMO, Yale

The math team has been busy!

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There have been lots of math team events over the last several weeks!

As well as one coming up! The next round of the New England Math League (NEML) will take place on Thursday, 12/14 from 2:35 to 3:45 in Schoolhouse 25. The competition lasts 30 minutes, calculators are allowed, and everyone must begin by 3:15pm. Anyone at any level of math is encouraged to participate! (The highest level content on this competition is Algebra 2.)

After the first two round of the NEML, we are in 30th place out of 125 teams! Here are our current top scorers:

First Name

Last Name

Score

Steven

Wang

12

Ethan

Huang

8

Panut (T)

Sawatyanon

7

Jack

Long

6

Jun Hong

Park

6

Toyo

Sato

6

On Tuesday, 11/14, 30 middle school students sat for the AMC8 math competition! We’ll get our results in about a month!

On Saturday, 11/11, the team finished 64th out of 110 — our best ever! — at the ultra-competitive Harvard-MIT Math Tournament!

On Tuesday, 10/17, the team finished 7th out of 90 in our first time attending the WPI math competition!

Go Wildcats!

Posted in: AMC 10/12, AMC 8, HMMT, NEML

Steven Wang Qualifies for the AIME!

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Steven Wang
Steven Wang

Steven Wang, Williston’s own 9th grade math phenom just qualified for the prestigious American Invitational Mathematics Examination by virtual of scoring in the top 5% nationally on the AMC12 math competition!

Steven will sit for the 3-hour AIME competition on March 22nd, the results of which could propel him to the USA Mathematical Olympiad!

Congratulations Steven!

Our complete AMC10/12 results are as follows:

Last Name

First Name

Score

Contest

WANG

ZEYU

135.0

AMC12B

HUANG

YICHENG

111.0

AMC10B

LU

KEYU

97.5

AMC10B

WANG

KENNETH

84.0

AMC10B

CHO

SEOYOUNG

79.5

AMC10B

YEN

LIN

76.5

AMC10B

ZHOU

WANGCHEN

72.0

AMC12B

LEE

JIN YOUNG

70.5

AMC12B

KANG

LANXI

67.5

AMC12B

HAN

EUNYUL

66.0

AMC10B

PARK

JUNHONG

64.5

AMC10B

IKEMOTO

HARUKA

63.0

AMC12B

SAWATYANON

PANUT

61.5

AMC10B

ANDREWS

SARAH

61.5

AMC12B

SEO

CHANGHYUN

60.0

AMC10B

ZHAO

HANZHANG

60.0

AMC12B

TOYOKAZU

SATO

55.5

AMC10B

MIZOBUCHI

SOMA

55.5

AMC12B

GAO

ZIDONG

55.5

AMC12B

PALUCHOWSKI

TOMASZ

54.0

AMC12B

YOUNG

CHRISTOPHER

52.5

AMC12B

JUNG

WILEY

48.0

AMC12B

OSTBERG

IAN

45.0

AMC12B

DANG

HOANG

43.5

AMC10B

GOLD

ALEX

39.0

AMC12B

ZHANG

ZIWEI

37.5

AMC10B

IKUKU

ENIOLA

28.5

AMC12B
Posted in: AIME, AMC 10/12

Big Competition Update!

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There’s been lots of competitive math action lately! Lots more upcoming too!

TNEMLhe 6th and last (!) round of the New England Math League will be held on Tuesday, 3/21 from 2:30 to 3:30 in Schoolhouse 25. The competition lasts 30 minutes and you must begin before 3:10. You may use a calculator and any student at any level of math is welcome to participate! Just show up! No signup required!

MMATHs12 Williston Mathletes will be heading to Yale on Saturday, 4/1 to participate in the MMATHs competition! The two Williston teams of 6 will compete in individual and team rounds, as well as a round where they will work collaboratively with students from other schools!

Yesterday, on February 28th, 5 Williston Middle School students participated in the 7th and 8th grade level of the New England Math League! This is the first time the competition has run at Williston! Congratulations to these middle school mathlete pioneers!

Back on February, 15th, 28 Williston students participated in the AMC10/12 math competition! Students scores will be known in a few weeks! AIME here we come!

On February 13th, 19 Williston students participated in the 5th round of the New England Math League, earning a strong team score of 25!

Our overall team score of 120 puts us in 28th place out of over 130 teams from across New England! Complete round 5 league results can be viewed right here. Detailed individual results are online here (ask Mr. Seamon for the password). Congratulations to our current high-scoring students!

Steven Wang is currently tied for 5th place our of all 800+ individual competitors!

First Name

Last Name

Gr

NEML Total

Steven

Wang

9th

29

Ethan

Huang

9th

24

Derrick

Zhao

12th

21

Nancy

Kang

12th

20

Simon

Kim

10th

19

Panut (T)

Sawatyanon

9th

17

Shirley

Zhou

11th

17

Hoang

Dang

10th

11

Chloe

Lee

12th

11

Ken

Wang

9th

9

Josh

Calianos

11th

8

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Posted in: AMC 10/12, Classroom Success, NEML, Yale

AMC10/12 2017 – Signup Form

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AMC-lgoThe 2017 American Mathematics Competitions 10 and 12 will take place on Wednesday, 2/15 from 8:30 to 10am in Plimpton.

Anyone with any experience with at least Algebra 2 is welcome to participate!

Everyone who wishes to participate must sign up using this online form by Monday, 1/30. There are 20 spots for each competition. Spots will be given out on a first-come first-served basis.

Here are some practice problems:

2008 AMC 10: Questions, Answers
2010 AMC 10: Questions, Answers
2008 AMC 12: Questions, Answers
2010 AMC 12: Questions, Answers

About the competitions:

The AMC 10 is a 25-question, 75-minute, multiple choice examination in secondary school mathematics containing problems which can be understood and solved with algebra and geometry concepts.

The AMC 12 is a 25-question, 75-minute, multiple choice examination in secondary school mathematics containing problems which can be understood and solved with pre-calculus concepts.

No questions on either competition require the use of a calculator. No calculators may be used during the competitions.

Posted in: AMC 10/12

NEML5 & AMC10/12 Results!

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NEMLThe next math team competition (NEML6) will take place on Tuesday, 3/22 from 2:35 to 3:35 in Schoolhouse 25. This is the last NEML of the year! The competition lasts 30 minutes and all competitors must start before 3:05. You may use a calculator.

Anyone at ANY level of math is encouraged to participate!

On 2/16, 21 competitors sat for the NEML5 and scored a strong team score of 21 on a very challenging round of questions! Our cumulative team score of 112 is now only 2 points out of the top 30 in all of the New England!

NEML5 in action!
NEML5 in action!

Out top scorers were:

First Name

Last Name

Grade

NEML5 Score

Tanmay

Khale

12th

5

Pinky

King

12th

5

Chloe

Lee

11th

4

Shirley

Zhou

10th

4

Joshua

Calianos

10th

3

Tomasz

Paluchowski

11th

3

Michael

Warren

11th

3

Derrick

Zhao

10th

3

Here are our overall top NEML scorers after 5 rounds:

First Name

Last Name

Grade

Total NEML Score

Tanmay

Khale

12th

27

Pinky

King

12th

20

Shirley

Zhou

10th

20

Joshua

Calianos

10th

15

Tomasz

Paluchowski

11th

15

Derrick

Zhao

10th

15

Simon

Kim

9th

13

Izzy

Tegtmeyer

12th

12

Ryan

Jeon

12th

11

Kevin

Li

12th

11

Caroline

Borden

12th

10

Matt

Otting

11th

10

On 2/17, 17 students sat for the prestigious AMC10/12 competition!

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Our top scorers were:

First Name

Last Name

Grade

Contest

Score

Awards

Joshua

Calianos

10

AMC10B

103.5

Winner AMC10

Wangchen

Zhou

10

AMC10B

103.5

Winner AMC10

Kenneth

Wang

8

AMC10B

79.5

Chaiwat

Setwipatanachai

11

AMC12B

78.0

Winner AMC12

Hanzhang

Zhao

10

AMC10B

78.0

Jin Young

Lee

11

AMC12B

75.0

Full contest results are available on the results page. (Ask Mr. Seamon for the password.)

Posted in: AMC 10/12, NEML