Team,
Great job on the first Math Olympiad. When I looked at the contest yesterday, I thought it looked harder than a usual November MOEMS, but you guys crushed it. As a team, we scored an average of about 0.7 points above where we scored last year (relative to the national average).
Twelve out of 25 OJH students participating in the competition scored 4 out of 5 points. Congratulations to: Adam, Adrian, Danny, Erica, Jonathan, Josiah, Lucien, Max, Peter, Scout, Tiernan, and Xutao.
There was one person who did get all 5 correct: Principal Badenhop!
Independent of how many questions you were able to conquer, I always admire your ability to focus and work on difficult problems.
If you want to see how you did, the results are on the MOEMS tab of the bonus work spreadsheet.
I will bring your papers next week, so you can review them.
The contest and solutions are attached. Those kinds of questions come up frequently. I’m also happy to make a video if people think it would be helpful. Just let me know. (I’ll write on paper, not a tablet.)
Shout out to Jonathan, Max, and Adrian for taking the AMC 10. The AMC 10 is a test for 10th graders, and even for 10th graders, it’s challenging.
The bonus work is the 2022 AMC 8 questions 1-11. It is attached to this email and was stapled to the back of the solutions we handed out on Wednesday.
Our first meeting after Thanksgiving (Dec 3), we will have our annual prime number and pythagorean triples challenge. If you can write down the prime numbers between 1 and 100 and the first 4 pythagorean triples, you will get up to 3 bonus points. I attached a sheet listing the prime numbers 1-100, and the first 4 pythagorean triples. The sheet also has a link to some virtual flashcards I created to help you practice.
Take care,
Coach Ben
OJH Math Team 