math contest - fermat

[cool dude]

just wondering does anyone know if the results of the fermat math contest is posted on the internet or we have to get it from our teacher? and when r the results?

[Cervantes]

I think they post the results on http://cemc.uwaterloo.ca for teachers only. That is, you have to have a login and password for your school.

[codemage]

Usually only those who advance to the next round are notified of their score.

[Mazer]

The way it worked at Massey related to everybody's addiction to math. Mr. White-ish-gray would take your completed test and filter coffee grounds through it. The resulting liquid would then be injected intravenously into the writer's arm. After some violent seizures and around six hours of unconsciousness you'd awake knowing your score. Yes, people are that insane.

The truth is that people were addicted to math. After the contest while regular folk were eating lunch or developing Evasive Maneuvers or some ungodly combination of the two mathletes would spend their time doing an unofficial marking of the bubblesheets, not only so that you could get a good idea of how well you did, but so that the very best scores could be found and the answers would be transferred to a real contest sheet (in the case that you ended up with a photocopy).
(unless the fermat wasn't one of the multiple choice contests)

Yep.

[MysticVegeta]

I got my cayley score when it was posted on the board in the math area, maybe you guys also have a board with all the notifications of the contests and stuff?

[chrispminis]

codemage wrote:

Usually only those who advance to the next round are notified of their score.

There are next rounds?!

Well anyways, i competed in the Cayley contest and scored 128. I could've done better, but I still got highest in my school. What did everyone else score?

How did you get the last question? The one with the rolling semicircle.

Anyways, also competed in the Galois contest, haven't recieved results yet, although I did bad because I thought I was on the last question and was taking my time... then I turned page and realized shit there was another.

I like the Pascal, Cayley, Fermat series more than the Fryer, Galois, and Hypatia series because it's less subjective and its definitive. Galois is marked weird.

[codemage]

chrispminis wrote:

There are next rounds?!

Next round. Anyone who places in the top 100 in the country (or so with tied scores) does a 2nd harder test for national placement.

[Clayton]

i think for the rolling semicircle on the Cayley contest it was like 52 mm or something between the two points (dont quote me on that cuz it was a long time ago remember[lol a couple of months] but i think thats what it was) did you find the answer to it? how did you find it, i think i used the eqn of a circle and something else but....

[MysticVegeta]

chrispminis wrote:

codemage wrote:

Usually only those who advance to the next round are notified of their score.

There are next rounds?!

Well anyways, i competed in the Cayley contest and scored 128. I could've done better, but I still got highest in my school. What did everyone else score?

How did you get the last question? The one with the rolling semicircle.

Anyways, also competed in the Galois contest, haven't recieved results yet, although I did bad because I thought I was on the last question and was taking my time... then I turned page and realized shit there was another.

I like the Pascal, Cayley, Fermat series more than the Fryer, Galois, and Hypatia series because it's less subjective and its definitive. Galois is marked weird.

omg sweet, nice dude, I only got a 120 on it >_<I am still ticked off about it, I made a mistake in the 24, heh... Ofcourse didnt get 25, my dad got it but didnt give me the answer, said "When the circle rotates, its position will always be the same" thats the only hint I got, but I didnt make anything out of it.

[1of42]

I got 136 - which i was relatively happy with. Could've done better though

I was only tied for 3rd in my school too :S

[chrispminis]

Nice score, makes my school look retarded lol.

On that last question. I figured out a way that uses the pythagorean theorom, and I took into account that the centre stays in the same position, but it still doesn't work... Even though to me and others I've shown it to, it should work in theory.

See I made a really stupid mistake on that question with the listing numbers?

I listed 8 for 8= 2 x 2 x 2
but not 27 for 27 = 3 x 3 x 3 =\

[Andy]

fermat.. i think that was the one where we had 2 perfects in my school and a 144. yeah we owend that one

[MysticVegeta]

wow thats crazy, makes my score look nooby... so Andy you scored a perfect? I bet you did

[Andy]

lol no.. that was the one i messed up number 1 on... something about 2*6 =5... guh ended up with 138