It All Adds Up

All students in math classes with the Advanced designation take the American Mathematics Competition (AMC), either 10 or 12. This is the first step in the process to qualify to train for the U.S. national team that competes in the International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO).  After the AMC 10/12, students who score around the top 10% nationally of AMC 12 and top 5% of AMC 10 qualify for the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME).  The AIME is a three-hour, 15-question exam that took place on February 5 this year.  Finally, those whose combined scores from the AMC 10/12 and AIME are exceptional qualify for the United State of America Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO), which this year was on March 21 and 22, with two 4.5 hour sessions over two days to answer six questions.  

Westtown students did well and the following students were the top performers this year. For the AMC 10, which comprises freshmen and sophomores, Megan Mou ’28 and Brian Kim ’28 both scored in the top 25% nationally. Eric Shen ’29 scored in the top 10% nationally. The top three scorers at Westtown were: in third place, also scoring in the top 10% nationally, was Arial Xiong ’28. In second place, scoring in the top 5% nationally and qualifying for the AIME, Richard Xie ’28. And, in first place, also scoring in the top 5% nationally and also qualifying for the AIME, was Kai Xu ’28.

For the AMC 12, comprising juniors and seniors, the top three scorers at Westtown were: In third place there was a tie between Tessa Kipnis ’26 and Charlie Liu ’27. In second place was Tiantong Hu ’26. And, in first place, scoring in the top 10% nationally, qualifying for the AIME, and qualifying for the USAMO was Angela Wang ’26.

Westtown math students also particiated in the the Purple Comet math competion and won first place for small high schools in Pennsylvania. (Notably, they just narrowly defeated George School!)

The team members were: Anqi Wang ’26, Tiantong Hu ’26, Jerry Rao ’27, Jamie Lee ’27, Jayden Qin ’28, and Megan Mou ’28.

In other math news, Westtown math students earned first and third place at the West Chester University Integration Bee on Thursday, April 23.  Angela Wang ’26 earned $150 for first prize and Jerry Rao ’27 earned $50 for third place.

Congratulations to these students on their math acheivements!