By Dr. Regis
troyr@isb.ac.th
On February 5 – 10, a group of ten Grade 8 students went to Vietnam for a MATHCOUNTS competition; an intense set of mathematical situations that students need to work through, some with a calculator, some without, some in groups, most individual, and all in timed settings. It was a great competition and our students represented ISB well.
Our highest finisher was 3 points off of the championship round and two other students were one point behind that! The championship round takes the top 10 students and challenges them one-VS-one with the winner moving on for speed and accuracy. Last year we were nowhere close to the top 10, so this is a big improvement! Not bad for a field of 108 competitors!
As for the team competition, we placed our top team in the top 10, taking the final spot there. Team two was ranked 18 and team three (mixed with two ISB and two other school students) was ranked 23 out of the 27 teams.
Finally, we did have three students take medals from the Mathematics Scavenger Hunt round which was a team competition, mixed across all schools, and with a time limit to find the 13 math clues, solve them correctly, and turn them in the fastest (speed was the tiebreaker). Please click here to see some pictures of the team and the medal winners.
If you see any of these students, please congratulate them for representing ISB so well at the MATHCOUNTS.
• Emily Park
• Rebecca Heo
• Pinn Chirathivat
• Sora Kanosue
• Tee Monsereenusorn
• Guy Thampakkul
• JJ Siritantikorn
• Walter Guo
• Rafa Romasanta
• Steven Papps