The Eleventh Annual High School Mathematics Tournament at the University of Iowa was held on Saturday, March 3, 2007 from 9 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Our feeling is that it was a great event, in spite of a big snow storm! The tournament received generous support from a host of units and individuals; without this support, the event would not be possible. We therefore want to begin by thanking those who contributed to its success: The Departments of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Statistics and Actuarial Science in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the office of the Provost. We particularly want to thank Dean Gary Fethke and Professor Carol Fethke, and Mrs. Catharine Wegner, a 1934 Mathematics Alumna and long-time teacher of Mathematics, who helped endow the tournament.

This year’s competition brought together 139 students from the following schools:

Cedar Rapids Home Schools

Cedar Rapids Prairie High

Center Point-Urbana CSD

Chariton High School

City High School, Iowa City

Kennedy High School

Regina High School, Iowa City

Wahlert Catholic High School

Washington High School

West High School, Iowa City

The students participated in a total of four "events". In two of these events (the "Sprint Round" and the "Target Round"), students answered mathematics test questions on individual tests. In the remaining two events (the "Team Round" and the "Relay Round") students worked in teams. Professors Oguz Durumeric, Paul Muhly, George Nelson, Walter Seaman, and University of Iowa student volunteers proctored the events. While the students were writing their exams, a team of Mathematics teachers from the participating schools graded the completed exams. We thank the math department graduate and undergraduate students for their invaluable assistance in helping proctor the exams and enter scores in the competition database. We thank Joel Uden from the College of Liberal Arts for his outstanding work in constructing the database program to match the elaborate and multifaceted requirements of the competition.

Below is a summary of the results of the tournament.

SPRINT ROUND WINNERS (maximum = 120):

Grade 9 (large school) Curie Ahn, Tyler Chenall both Iowa City West High School, both Scores: 92

Grade 9 (small school) Alan Talmage, Cedar Rapids Home Schools, Score: 86

Grade 10 (large school) Lena Ye, Iowa City West High School, Score: 111

Grade 10 (small school) Laura Weieneth, Cedar Rapids Home Schools, Score: 53

Grade 11 (large school) Austin Link, Shuo Zhang, both Iowa City West High School, both Scores: 110

Grade 11 (small school) Leif Gaebler, Cedar Rapids Home Schools, Score: 100

Grade 12 (large school) Nicholas Allendorf, Jeffery Chenhall and Paul Hlebowitsh all Iowa City West High School, all Scores: 115

Grade 12 (small school) Peter Montag, Regina High School, Score: 115

TEAM ROUND WINNERS (maximum = 100):

Junior Varsity (large school) City High School, Team 01 and Team 02 and Cedar Rapids Prairie High Team 01, all Scores: 10

Junior Varsity (small school) Cedar Rapids Home Schools, Team 04, Score: 30

Varsity (large school) Iowa City West High School, Team 01, Score: 80

Varsity (small school) Regina Jr/Sr High School, Team 01 and Cedar Rapids Home Schools Team 01, both Scores 70

TARGET ROUND WINNERS (maximum = 80):

Grade 9 (large school) Young Seol Iowa City West High School, Score: 50

Grade 9 (small school) Jeremiah Siochi, Cedar Rapids Home Schools, Score: 50

Grade 10 (large school) Michele Han , Shinggo Lu and Xin Lu, Iowa City West High School, all Scores: 60

Grade 10 (small school) Sarah Stephenson Cedar Rapids Home Schools, Score: 40

Grade 11 (large school) Shuo Zhang, Iowa City West High School, Score: 70

Grade 11 (small school) Leif Gaebler, Cedar Rapids Home Schools, Score: 60

Grade 12 (large school) Nicholas Allendorf, Jeffery Chenhall both Iowa City West High School, both Scores: 70

Grade 12 (small school) Peter Montag, Regina High School, Score: 60

RELAY ROUND WINNERS (maximum = 100):

Junior Varsity (large school) Iowa City West High School - Teams 10 and 12, and Iowa City City High School Team 01, all scores: 20

Junior Varsity (small school) Cedar Rapids Home Schools, Team 03, Score: 25

Varsity (large school) Iowa City West High School, Teams 01 and 02, both Scores: 40

Varsity (small school) Cedar Rapids Home Schools, Team 01, Score: 40

WINNING SCHOOLS-TOTALS OF SCORES (maximum = 400 for large schools and small schools)

Junior Varsity (large school) Iowa City West High School, Score: 237.00

Junior Varsity (small school) Cedar Rapids Home Schools, Score: 179.67

Varsity (large school) Iowa City West High School, Score: 334.34

Varsity (small school) Cedar Rapids Home Schools, Score: 283.33

At the awards ceremony, Professor Paul Muhly also announced that the twelfth grade winners in the Sprint Round (Nicholas Allendorf, Jeffery Chenhall and Paul Hlebowitsh all Iowa City West High School, and Peter Montag, Regina High School), and in the Target Round (Nicholas Allendorf, Jeffery Chenhall both Iowa City West High School and Peter Montag, Regina High School) would each receive a prize of $100 from the endowment started by the Fethkes and Mrs.Wegner. Thanks to everyone who helped to make this tournament a run efficiently, and thanks most of all to the students who undertook the laudable effort at solving almost three and one half hours of Mathematics problems on a sunny (but snowy!) Saturday morning.

University of Iowa Mathematics Tournament Organizing Committee

Oguz Durumeric, Paul Muhly and Walter Seaman

Department of Mathematics

University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA 52252

319-335-0714