The Ninth Annual High School Mathematics Tournament at the University of Iowa was held on Saturday, March 5, 2005 from 9 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. By all counts, it was a wonderfully successful event. The tournament received generous support from a variety of units and individuals; without this support, the event would not have been 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 and for the first time this year we also received generous support from the Rockwell-Collins Corporation! I 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 roughly 127 students from the following schools:

City High School, Iowa City

Corwith-Wesley-LuVerne High School

Home Schools

Kennedy High School

Linn-Mar Community School

Marshalltown High School

Regina High School, Iowa City

Southeast Polk High School

Vinton-Shellsburg High School

Wahlert 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. Chris Hlas, a graduate student finishing his Ph.D. in Mathematics Education, and Cindy Van Ark, a secretary in Mathematics, entered the results into an Access database.

Below is a summary of the results of the tournament.

SPRINT ROUND WINNERS (maximum = 120):

Grade 9 (large school) Michelle Han, Iowa City West High School, Score: 85

Grade 9 (small school) Leif Gaebler, Home Schools, Score: 65

Grade 10 (large school) Darren Look and SeYoung Van, Iowa City West High School, Both scores: 85

Grade 10 (small school) Peter Montag, Regina Jr/Sr High School, Score: 105

Grade 11 (large school) Nick Brady, Iowa City High School, Score: 116

Grade 11 (small school) Madeline Oglesby, Wahlert High School, Score: 43

Grade 12 (large school) Drew Klein, Iowa City West High School, Score: 115

Grade 12 (small school) Philipp Gaebler, Home Schools, Score: 115

TEAM ROUND WINNERS (maximum = 100):

Junior Varsity (large school) West High School, Team 01, Score: 60

Junior Varsity (small school) Home Schools, Team 02, Score: 90

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

Varsity (small school) Home Schools, Team 01, Score 80

TARGET ROUND WINNERS (maximum = 80):

Grade 9 (large school) Michelle Han and David Li, Iowa City West High School and Perry Antonelli, Southeast Polk High School, All three scores: 60

Grade 9 (small school) Leif Gaebler, Home Schools, Score: 60

Grade 10 (large school) Darren Look, Iowa City West High School, Score: 70

Grade 10 (small school) Peter Montag, Regina Jr/Sr High School, Score: 80

Grade 11 (large school) Pradeep Bandaru and Miller Li, Iowa City West High School, Both scores: 70

Grade 11 (small school) Matt Wheeler, Home Schools, Score: 60

Grade 12 (large school) Drew Klein, Iowa City West High School, Score: 70

Grade 12 (small school) Philipp Gaebler, Home Schools, Score: 70

RELAY ROUND WINNERS (maximum = 100):

Junior Varsity (large school) Iowa City West High School - Team 01 and Team 06, Both scores: 35

Junior Varsity (small school) Home Schools, Teams 02 Score: 40

Varsity (large school) Iowa City West High School, Team 01, Score: 50

Varsity (small school) Regina Jr/Sr High School, Team 01, Score: 25

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

small schools)

Junior Varsity (large school) Iowa City West High School, Score: 260.34

Junior Varsity (small school) Home Schools, Score: 267

Varsity (large school) Iowa City West High School, Score: 293.33

Varsity (small school) Home Schools, Score: 221

At the awards ceremony, Professor Walter Seaman also announced that the twelfth grade winners in the Sprint Round (Drew Klein, Iowa City West High School and Philipp Gaebler, Home Schools) and in the Target Round (Drew Klein, Iowa City West High School and Philipp Gaebler, Home Schools) would each receive a prize of $100 from the endowment started by the Fethkes and Mrs.Wegner. Thanks to everyone who shared in the work of making this tournament run efficiently, and thanks most of all to the students who undertook the nontrivial effort at solving almost three and one half hours of Mathematics problems on a beautiful 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