MAA-NCS Team Competition

Report on 15th Annual NCS-MAA Team Contest (2011)

The fifteenth annual NCS/MAA Team Contest was held on Saturday, November 12, 2011, with 76 teams from 26 universities and colleges participating. This down a little from the record 91 teams from 29 institutions in the 2009 contest and the 85 teams in 2010. Three teams earned perfect scores of 100. They are the Carleton College team Carl-Maize, with team members Danny Chen, Shunji Li and Sen Zhao; the St. Olaf College team Rice Cookers, with team members Huong Vu, Boyang Wei, and Ling Gu; and the University of Minnesota Twin Cities Walleyes, with team members Tingzhong Xue, Yifan Feng, and Wei Shi. Scores ranged from 100 to 0, with a median of 32.5. The problems and a set of solutions are posted elsewhere on the NCS website, as are the names of the team members placing in the top third. (See links below.)

Each college or university in the North Central Section of the MAA is invited to enter as many teams of up to three undergraduate students each as desired. The expenses of the contest are covered by an entry fee of $15 per team. Over these first fifteen years of the contest, teams from 36 different institutions have entered. The next team contest is tentatively scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012. An announcement and invitation to register will be sent by email in late September.

For further information, please contact Jerry Heuer: heuer@cord.edu.

Dr. Gerald A. Heuer

Professor Emeritus and Mathematician in Residence

Concordia College

Moorhead, MN 56562

2011 Team Competition Solutions and Results

Competition Problems

Competition Solutions

Top Third Team Results

Past North Central Section Team Competitions

2010	Problems	Solutions	Results
2009	Problems	Solutions	Results
2008	Problems	Solutions	Results
2007	Problems	Solutions	Results
2006	Problems	Solutions	Results
2005	Problems	Solutions	Results
2004	Problems	Solutions	Results
2003	Problems	Solutions	Results
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2000	Problems	Solutions	Results
1999	Problems	Solutions	Results
1998	Problems (.html)	Solutions
1997	Problems	Solutions

MAA-NCS Team Results: Year-by-Year Record of Top Three Teams

For more information contact Professor Jerry Heuer.

Via e-mail address at heuer@cord.edu and by snail mail address at:

Prof. Jerry Heuer

Department of Mathematics

Concordia College

Moorhead, MN 56562