The American Regions Mathematics League (ARML) is an annual national
mathematics competition. High school students form teams of 15 to represent
their city, state, county or school and compete against the best in the
from the United States and Canada. The event consists of Team, Power, Individual
and Relay rounds (For more information click here)
and usually takes place the first Saturday after Memorial Day. Currently,
ARML is held simultaneously at three sites:
Penn
State, The University of Iowa and
San
Jose State University .
The Thirtieth Annual Meet
The thirtieth annual meet will be held Saturday, June 4,2005
The Twenty-Seventh Annual Meet
The twenty-seventh annual meet was held Saturday, June 1, 2002 at Penn
State and Iowa, and May 31-June 1, 2002 at San Jose State.
Thomas Jefferson won, scoring 190 out of a possible 240 points.
Teams which
finished in the top 15 of Division A or the top 4 of Division B must compete
in division A in 2002.
The Twenty-sixth Annual Meet
The twenty-sixth annual meet was held Saturday, June 2, 2001 at Penn State
and Iowa, and June 1-2, 2001 at San Jose State. One hundred and eight teams
took part in this years meet, including guest teams from Taiwan and the
Philippines.
San Francisco Bay A recaptured first place, scoring 191 out of a possible
240 points. Massachusetts A finished second with 185 points.
San Francisco A, Massachusetts A, and Thomas Jefferson A began the meet
by achieving perfect scores on the team round. San Francisco A took the
lead for good by being only one of two teams to score 39 out of 40 on the
Power Question. San Francisco A continued their strong showing during the
individual round, faltering slightly on question 3, but turning in a strong
showing on question 8, answered by only 19 students nationwide. Five of
San Francisco A's students correctly answered this challenging question.
The Michigan Reals led the relay round with 32 points. Massachusetts
A scored 30 points in the relay round, but it wasn't enough to catch San
Francisco A. In Division B, Ontario B1 was the winner scoring 134
total points. Chicago C earned second place with 120 total points.
In the guest, division, Taiwan F led all teams with 163 points. Taiwan
B led all guest teams during the individual round, but Taiwan F's strong
performance on the team events lifted them ahead of Taiwan B.
Six individuals achieved a perfect 8 during the individual round. The
tie-breaker was won by Gabriel Carroll of
San
Francisco Bay A.
The Twenty-fifth Annual Meet
One hundred and four teams participated in the twenty-fifth annual meet
that took place Saturday, June 3, 2000 at Penn State and Iowa and on Friday-Saturday
June 2-3, 2000 at UNLV.
For the first time ever, there was a tie for first place, as Chicago
A and San Francisco Bay A each scored 172 points, just one point ahead
of New York City. In Division B, there was also a tie for first, the first
since 1983. Connecticut A and Peninsula South Bay both scored 127 points,
just two ahead of Iowa A and Northern California, who tied for third, and
three points ahead of AAS NJ A.
New York City A, Massachusetts A and Upstate New York A jumped out to
an early lead with perfect scores on the team round. San Francisco Bay
A turned it into a four team race by being the only team to achieve a perfect
40 on the power question and solidified their position by being the only
team to have every team member answer all first three individual round
questions correctly. By the end of the individual round, San Francisco
Bay A had built a three point lead over New York City A and Massachusetts
A. Chicago A scored 30 out of 40 on the relay round to vault from fourth
to a tie for first.
This year, we were honored once more with a visit by three teams from
Taiwan. As the record shows (see www.arml.com),
these teams did fine work. The highest scoring Taiwan team scored on the
level of the ten best American teams in the A division. The other two teams
scored on the level of the top 12 in our B division.
The Taiwanese visitors have established a parallel league to ARML, the
Taiwan Regions Mathematics League. In their first year, TRML involved 80
teams, and next year they will host 280 teams.
Three individuals attained perfect scores during the individual round.
In order of their finish on the tiebreaker, they were
Tiankai Liu - San
Francisco Bay A
Gabriel Carroll - San
Francisco Bay A
Sasha Schwartz - All Penn
Fourteen students scored 7 out of 8 during the individual round. There
were: Josh Burton, San Francisco Bay A; Lawrence Detlor, New York City
A; Mark Lipson, Massachussetts A; Howard Liu, Chicago A; Mike Lugo, All
Pennsylvania; David Mermin, North Carolina A; Jason Moruo, Washington A;
Andy Neidemeier, Minnesota Gold; Gregory Price, Thomas Jefferson A; Nicholas
Rupprecht, Chicago A; David Shin, Academy Allstarts of NJ A; Matt Thibault,
Minnesota Gold; Kohki Yamaguchi, Chicago A; Yan Zhang, Thomas Jefferson
A.
Awards
The winner of the Alfred Kalfus Founder's award was Richard Rukin, who
was instrumental in getting a second ARML site started at the University
of Iowa. The winner of the Samuel Greitzer Distinguished Coach award was
Debbie Clyde of Idaho. Andy Yang of Howard County won the Zachary Sobol
award for outstanding conributions to his ARML team. The Harry and Ruth
Ruderman award for first place in the ARML power contest was Stuyvesent
High School, New York City.
Complete standings are available at
http://www.arml.com.
Links and links to links
Please e-mail rickert@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu
if you have any helpful comments about this page.
ARML Power Contest
The ARML Power Contest, open to classes of high school students, consists
of several "long answer" problems to which the class submits a single solution
written during a forty-five minute period. The Harry Ruderman award for
top score on the 2000 ARML Power contest went to Stuyvesant HS in New York
City. Gunn Math Circle (California) and Wayzata High School (Minnesota)
tied for second. For more information about this contest see the following
sites:
ARML Standings
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1981 1982 1983 1984 1985
1986 1987 1988 1989 1990
1991 1992 1993 1994 1995
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
ARML summaries
Other competitions
Thanks to Robert Messer
for the .gif of the ARML logo and title, and to Chris Clark for the 25th
anniversary logo.
