Michigan participation in the American Mathematics Competitions remains strong. In November 2000, a total of 15,070 AMC 8 exams were ordered by 203 Michigan schools, placing Michigan first in the country for number of participating schools and second for student enrollment numbers. A total of 35 Michigan students received National Honor Roll recognition, and 811 received Michigan Honor Roll certificates. Rahul Ramesh, an 8th grader from Smith Middle School in Troy, was this year’s state winner with a perfect score of 25.
At the high school level, 112 schools in Michigan gave the AMC 10 and AMC 12 in February, 2001. Anant Gupta scored a perfect 150 in the AMC 10. Ryan Timmons with a 142 had the highest score in Michigan in the AMC 12. Detroit Country Day School and Troy High School tied for the high team score.
Kristina Hansen (UM–Flint) continues this year as director of the AMC 8 in Michigan; David Laverell (Calvin C) directs the AMC 10 and AMC 12.
Three college students in Michigan were honored by the Section for their performance on the 2000 Putnam Examination: Rishi Raj (UM–Ann Arbor), Chetan T. Balwe (UM–Ann Arbor), and David Houston (OU).
In the American Regions Mathematics League (ARML) Competition, held in Iowa in June, the Michigan teams placed fifth in Division A and tied for 27th in Division B. The teams, selected from the MMPC Top 100 and coached again this year by Bob Messer (Albion C), John Fink (Kalamazoo C), and Ruth Favro (LTU), competed on problems such as proving the existence of a right triangle with sides of length a, b, and c having the same perimeter as a triangle with sides of length ÷a, ÷b, and ÷c.
Further information is available at www.albion.edu/math/arml.
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