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AMATYC Student Mathematics League

  



INTRODUCTION  

The annual national contest sponsored by the American Mathematics Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC) consists of 2 rounds: one round in the fall semester and one round in the spring semester. The fall exam will be given in the latter part of October.

Each round consists of 20 multiple-choice questions on a variety of topics in precalculus mathematics: algebra, geometry, trigonometry, functions, graphing, probability, combinatorics and elementary statistics.

To take the exam, one needs to be a community college student at a participating community college. To take the exam at American River College, one needs to be a student at American River College.

The top 5 scores in each round form the American River College "team." The college, then competes informally with other community colleges around the state and the country. Members of the team receive certificates to honor their accomplishments. Support the ARC Math Team with your participation and go ARC!

The acronym AMATYC stands for American Math Association of Two Year Colleges. The AMATYC Mathematics competition is a prestigious math completion in which community colleges and students from all over the United States compete for top honors. The following is from the AMATYC home page. 

 

Fall, 2012 AMATYC results:

We had 112 students who took AMATYC this fall with a team score of 117.5, which gave us a ranking of 18 place overall  in the US and we were to top finisher from the  central valley community colleges. If you want to check the current standings at any point just go to http://www.sml.csmd.edu/reports.php.

 

What follows are the top finishers at ARC:

 

Student                                               Score          Ranking                                  Instructor

Jones

Hardy

27

1

Pico

 

 

Vo

Duy

26

2

Pico

 

 

Luszczak

Matthew

23.5

3

 

Pico

 

Lawrence

Steven

21

4

 

Smith

 

 

Hodges

Richard

20

5

 

Smith

 

 

Rice

Eric

19

6

 

Pico

 

 

Sanford

Patrick

19

6

 

Pico

 

 

Wang

Kuanwen

19

7

 

Pico

 

 

Perret

Jean-Paul

18

9

 

Smith

 

 

Arabadzhi

Yevgeniy

17.5

11

 

Smith

 

 

Corbelli

Matthew

17.5

10

 

Pico

 

Duncan

Jared

17.5

12

 

Pico

 

 

Marks

Aurora

17.5

10

 

Pico

 

 

Marks

Aurora

17.5

10

 

Truong

 

 

Mittow

Nile

17.5

13

 

Smith

 

 

Mittow

Nile

17.5

14

 

Pico

 

 

Synhorst

Daniel

16.5

15

 

Smith

 

 

Yang

En-Ting

16.5

15

 

Pico

 

 

Yang

En-Ting

16.5

15

 

Barcellos

 

Curtis

Matt

15

17

 

Heeren

 

Talwai

Prem

15

17

 

Smith

 

Alvandi

Mehroad

14.5

19

 

Pico

 

Bomashuk

Andrey

14.5

19

 

Smith

 

Sexton

Naysha

14.5

20

 

McKaig

 

Driller

Jens

14

22

 

Smith

 

Klagenberg

Jordan

14

22

 

Pico

 

Lee

Hajune

14

23

 

Gupta

 

Lee

Hajune

14

24

 

McKaig

 

 

Top Finishers from Math 370

The top two finishers in Math 370 were Jack Chien from Professor Emery and Kathryn Scafidi from Professor Jones. Each of these students will receive a free Briggs calculus text complete with MyMath access.

To all of those that encouraged participation in AMATYC you have my sincere appreciation. Special thanks is due to Chris Heeren who as co-leader of our AMATYC team has done just about anything and everything to improve student success and student participation on AMATYC. Also, we greatly appreciate the help of Vince Jones who did an AMATYC review session on probability and counting, which was helpful to many students. Thanks also to Paul Andre who helped administer the AMATYC and encouraged participation in the Math Club and also AMATYC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 GlennPico 

 PicoG@arc.losrios.edu

      (916) 484-8963

 

 

 

 

 

 

 AMATYC Websites:

Official AMATYC Website

Official Website of the AMATYC with exams and keys 2003-2010.

 

 LACC Prof. Anatoliy Nikolaychuk

 This website has nice short solutions written out 2001-2011

 

Truman College 

This website has solutions 1984-2011

 Prof Leo Livshutz

 This website has nice solutions written out in detail 2007-2011 by Prof. Livshutz

Mission AMATYC

This website has written out solutions to the AMATYC 2006-2011.

Phoenix College AMATYC

This website has some written out solutions 2006-2009 with great detail and graphics.

Fullerton College AMATYC

This website has concise written out solutions to the AMATYC 2006-2011.

 

Written solutions to Past AMATYC Exams

 

AMATYCtrigw.s.solutions 

AMATYCPracticeMarch1

AMATYCPracticeMarch1solPico

AMATYCTrigPract.

AMATYCTrigPract.Sol 

AMATYCw.S.CountingSolPico

AMATYCw.s.Probability

 

AMATYCStrategyGuessing

AMATYC94SOL 

AMATYCFeb95SOL 

AMATYCNov95SOL 

AMATYCFeb97SOL

AMATYCFeb98SOL 

AMATYCFeb94 

 

Other Math Contests:

Math Olympiad

Canadian Mathematical Olympiad (CMO) - Include results, past problems and solutions.

Asian Pacific Mathematics Olympiad - Competition regulations, past results, awards, and APMO Test Papers from 1989 to present.

South Africa and the International Mathematical Olympiad - Results, links, training guides and materials.

British Mathematical Olympiad - The Subtrust (BMOS) and Committee (BMOC) pages with past problems.

Bay Area Math Circle - Features The Bay Area Mathematical Olympiad (BAMO) and weekly program for San Francisco Bay Area high and middle school students.

William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition - Annual student math competition sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America on upper division math

Video clips from the new public television documentary Hard Problems:

Video1 

Day1 

Day2