Top October Scores

Dear Participants :

The number of students who participated in solving the first month's problems exceeded our wildest dreams. A total of 370 bright students from every area of the state of Maine attempted to solve what were very difficult problems. The ages ranged from college-level students to one sixth grader. Several students submitted very creative solutions that were not anticipated by the graders and showed us there is a great deal of mathematical talent in the state of Maine. In some cases, students misinterpreted problems, which is not entirely the fault of the student. It is always a problem to understand exactly what is being asked, and learning this to interpret problems is in fact part of learning mathematics.
We have included on this page only the scores of those students who received 10 points or more (students are listed by their code). This does not mean the students who got less than 10 points did not have clever ideas, but hints at the difficulty of the problems. As everyone knows by now, these problems were hard. There were 70 students out of 370 (or 19%) who got 10 or more points on the total problem set. The school with the most participants was Presque Isle High School.

If you have any questions, please email Professor Szillery.

Grade 12+	Grade 12	Grade 11	Grade 10	Grade 9	Grade 8	Grade 7	Grade 6

Code	Score	Code	Score	Code	Score	Code	Score	Code	Score	Code	Score	Code	Score	Code	Score
241	75	281	86	169	73	256	71	158	67	274	45	232	46	239	39
142	66	138	67	135	67	301	42	253	39	187	25	18	16
154	49	128	63	130	67	191	23	146	37	179	22	333	12
99	49	228	57	267	64	151	21	193	31	165	22
24	48	246	53	361	56	220	20	312	20	98	16
30	46	201	49	186	55	214	20			310	14
28	31	200	36	260	48	170	12			11	10
		207	35	121	36	162	12
		100	30	198	30	346	10
		178	22	126	27	339	10
		122	22	367	18	332	10
		195	20	98	16	325	10
		212	19			311	10
		313	18			305	10
		46	15			304	10
		221	14			295	10
		360	10			288	10

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty ... a beauty of cold and austere, like that of a sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without gorgeous trappings of painting and music, yet sublimely pure, and capabale of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.

Bertrand Russell
The Study of Mathematics: Philosophial Essays

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