All About Math Olympiad Training & Questions

[phankao]

kiasiparent:

phankao:

[quote=\"kiasiparent\"]
The 9 GEP schools occupies the top 9 spots in amazing fashion. The 9 GEP schools already scooped 57 out of the 76 platinum awards available.

Is it anyone can register to sit for these math tests on your own as well? Any idea?

My son (in one of those GEP schools) was only given these application forms in P6 year only, not earlier - all students were given. Altho' those in the GEP were probably asked to take in p4, & p5 as well.

Eligibility

All participants must be born between 2 Jan 1997 and 1 Jan 1998, both dates inclusive, or Primary 6 students born after 1 Jan 1998.

Everyone can only take SMOPS once.

If your own school never register your child, you can register your child at certain tuition centres but your child must satisfy the above condition. (12 years old or below 12 years old but p6 this year)[/quote]Maybe not SMOPS - nowadays there are SO MANY math olympiads around. I know that there were some that p4 & p5 can take.

[kiasiparent]

phankao:

Maybe not SMOPS - nowadays there are SO MANY math olympiads around. I know that there were some that p4 & p5 can take.

Yeah there are many maths competitions now but the more prestigious ones for primary schools are:
1) SMOPS
2) NMOS
3) RIPMWC
These are the local ones.

For overseas ones, the more prestigious ones are
1) Gauss contest (by University of Waterloo)
2) Australian Maths competition
3) American Maths competition

All these are for primary schools only. In secondary and higher, there are others like SMO (Junior, Senior, Open), New south wales exam etc...

[kohjl]

ks2me:

I am curious where my kid's school stand so I went to do the statistics so might as well share with KSP like-minded parents of the top ten schools... :celebrate:


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Hi, if the criteria is the TOTAL number of awards received by a school, then the 10th school (or should it be at 9th position?) would be Ai Tong School with 16 awards - Gold, Silver and Bronze. But they don't have any Platinum. Also not a GEP school. For info only.

[phankao]

kiasiparent:

SMOPS 2009 results are out.


Notice how Nanyang primary own with 14 platinums and 12 gold.

http://www.hci.sg/aphelion/apmops/index.htm

Ah, this year, the invitational round to(APMOPS 2009) is cancelled due to h1n1

[corneyAmber]

kohjl:

Hi, if the criteria is the TOTAL number of awards received by a school, then the 10th school (or should it be at 9th position?) would be Ai Tong School with 16 awards - Gold, Silver and Bronze. But they don't have any Platinum. Also not a GEP school. For info only.

The Chart I prepared was based on number of platinums only. Certainly there could be many different views of Top Ten. This was only a KPO exercise I did for my own personal analysis which I thought to share with all since I had done it.

[mathsparks]

phankao:

kiasiparent:

SMOPS 2009 results are out.


Notice how Nanyang primary own with 14 platinums and 12 gold.

http://www.hci.sg/aphelion/apmops/index.htm

Ah, this year, the invitational round to(APMOPS 2009) is cancelled due to h1n1

I've just called the school, contest is still on for local participants.

[kiasiparent]

ks2me:

kohjl:

Hi, if the criteria is the TOTAL number of awards received by a school, then the 10th school (or should it be at 9th position?) would be Ai Tong School with 16 awards - Gold, Silver and Bronze. But they don't have any Platinum. Also not a GEP school. For info only.

The Chart I prepared was based on number of platinums only. Certainly there could be many different views of Top Ten. This was only a KPO exercise I did for my own personal analysis which I thought to share with all since I had done it.

The criteria should be based on either 1)no of platinums or 2) results of top 3 students in each school.

I think 2) is used more often. And it could also be based on round 2 results.

[kiasiparent]

mathsparks:

phankao:

[quote=\"kiasiparent\"]SMOPS 2009 results are out.


Notice how Nanyang primary own with 14 platinums and 12 gold.

http://www.hci.sg/aphelion/apmops/index.htm

Ah, this year, the invitational round to(APMOPS 2009) is cancelled due to h1n1

I've just called the school, contest is still on for local participants.[/quote]That's good news for local participants as the participants from other countries just keep getting better each year.

[Fairy]

kiasiparent:

ks2me:

[quote=\"kohjl\"]
Hi, if the criteria is the TOTAL number of awards received by a school, then the 10th school (or should it be at 9th position?) would be Ai Tong School with 16 awards - Gold, Silver and Bronze. But they don't have any Platinum. Also not a GEP school. For info only.

The Chart I prepared was based on number of platinums only. Certainly there could be many different views of Top Ten. This was only a KPO exercise I did for my own personal analysis which I thought to share with all since I had done it.

The criteria should be based on either 1)no of platinums or 2) results of top 3 students in each school.

I think 2) is used more often. And it could also be based on round 2 results.[/quote]Nanyang's total winner is now 60 instead of 54.
The addtions - 3 Platinum, 1 Gold, 2 Bronze.

Every year, the initial list grows when schools start to request HCI to double confirm those students whom they think should be in the list but whose names are not in. Last year, when I was at HCI's open house, a group of parents crowd around the Deputy Principal on this issue. Some parents claimed that a few of their friends' kds' names were not among the awardees but were subsequently updated when the school requested a check on selected partcipants. Many anxious parents asked if the school could double check if their son's name should be in. Some claimed that their son's classmates who were not strong in Maths and had never win a competition had gotten Silver while their own child who had participated actively in competitions and had won Silver in NUSH Olympiad did not win anything in HCI's. The DP's response was that they could cotact the admin staff. The response from the admin staff was diffferent. There were so many scripts, she claimed, they could not entertain parents' request.

[3in1]

Wow … looks like NYPS not only excel in Chinese but also top in Maths ! How and what special methodologies did the school adopt ?