List of winners of the Mathcounts competition

Mathcounts is a United States-based middle school mathematics competition sponsored by the National Society of Professional Engineers. Each year, teams of four students per state compete, from which one individual winner and one team winner is chosen; the individual winner is chosen through a written examination and then an oral head-to-head competition (the Countdown round), and the team winner is chosen through a series of written examinations.[1] This list provides the location of the national-level Mathcounts competitions and the national team and individual champions for each year since 1984, when this format was first used.[2]

The top team as well as the participants in the Countdown round are sometimes allowed a trip to the White House and meet the current President of the United States.[3] They also may receive scholarships from Mathcounts' sponsors.[4] Trophies are given out at the state level, and occasionally at the national level.[5]

Historical results

Year Individual winner State-team winner Winning-state coach Location Notes
1984 Michael Edwards, Texas Virginia Washington, D.C. [6]
1985 Timothy Kokesh, Oklahoma Florida Washington, D.C.
1986 Brian David Ewald, Florida California Washington, D.C.
1987 Russell Mann, Tennessee New York Washington, D.C.
1988 Andrew Schultz, Illinois New York Washington, D.C.
1989 Albert Kurz, Pennsylvania North Carolina Barbara Sydnor Washington, D.C.
1990 Brian Jenkins, Arkansas Ohio Washington, D.C.
1991 Jonathan L. Weinstein, Massachusetts Alabama Washington, D.C. [7]
1992 Andrei C. Gnepp, Ohio California Washington, D.C. [8]
1993 Carleton Bosley, Kansas Kansas Washington, D.C. [9]
1994 William O. Engel, Illinois Pennsylvania Matt Zipin Washington, D.C. [9]
1995 Richard Reifsnyder, Kentucky Indiana Washington, D.C. [10]
1996 Alexander Schwartz, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Washington, D.C. [11]
1997 Zhihao Liu, Wisconsin Massachusetts Washington, D.C. [12]
1998 Ricky Liu, Massachusetts Wisconsin Washington, D.C. [13][14]
1999 Po-Ru Loh, Wisconsin Massachusetts Washington, D.C. [15]
2000 Ruozhou Jia, Illinois California Washington, D.C. [16]
2001 Ryan Ko, New Jersey Virginia Barbara Burnett Washington, D.C. [17]
2002 Albert Ni, Illinois California Chicago, Illinois [18]
2003 Adam Hesterberg, Washington California Pallavi Shah Chicago, Illinois [19]
2004 Gregory Gauthier, Illinois Illinois Steve Ondes Washington, D.C. [20][21]

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2005 Neal Wu, Louisiana Texas Jeff Boyd Detroit, Michigan [23][24]

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2006 Daesun Yim, New Jersey Virginia Barbara Burnett Arlington, Virginia [18][26]

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2007 Kevin Chen, Texas Texas Jeff Boyd Fort Worth, Texas [28][29]

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2008 Darryl Wu, Washington Texas Jeff Boyd Denver, Colorado [31]
2009 Bobby Shen, Texas Texas Jeff Boyd Orlando, Florida [32]
2010 Mark Sellke, Indiana California Donna Phair[33] Orlando, Florida [34]
2011 Scott Wu, Louisiana California Vandana Kadam[35] Washington, D.C. [36]

See also

Notes

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  3. ^ "President George W. Bush meets award recipients of the 2005 Mathcounts National Competition". United States government. http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2005/05/images/20050512_p44871-068jpg-515h.html. Retrieved February 8, 2008. 
  4. ^ "Sponsors". Mathcounts. Archived from the original on December 29, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20071229120656/http://www.mathcounts.org/webarticles/anmviewer.asp?a=77&z=24. Retrieved January 1, 2008. 
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  6. ^ Mathcounts was actually founded in 1982, but the current system of determining individual and team champions was not implemented until 1984.
  7. ^ "Mathcounts Winners". Virginia Society of Professional Engineers. http://www.vspe.org/images/MATHCOUNTS%20WINNERS.pdf. Retrieved February 10, 2008. 
  8. ^ Gene Spafford. Brainy Teen 'Mathcounts' Champ. Yucks Digest. Vol. 2 No. 32. June 13, 1992.
  9. ^ a b "Date List". University of Pennsylvania. Archived from the original on February 12, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070212174440/http://stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~mfreiman/DateList.htm. Retrieved February 7, 2008. 
  10. ^ "It's A Fact!". Kentucky Engineering Center. Archived from the original on March 20, 2009. http://web.archive.org/web/20090320001938/http://www.kyengcenter.org/Mathcounts/winnersoveryears.pdf. Retrieved February 7, 2008. 
  11. ^ "Mathematically Correct". Mathematically Correct. http://www.mathematicallycorrect.com/letter.htm. Retrieved February 7, 2008. 
  12. ^ "Mathletes Compete In Washington On May 9". NASA.gov. http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/1997/97-090.txt. Retrieved February 7, 2008. 
  13. ^ "Mathletes Compete In Washington On May 15". NASA.gov. http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/1998/98-079.txt. Retrieved February 7, 2008. 
  14. ^ "Email, Subject "Math"". NASA. http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/drei/mailing-archive/96/0790.html. Retrieved February 7, 2008. 
  15. ^ "1999 Diamond Team". William Diamond Middle School. http://diamond.lexingtonma.org/mathteam/mathcounts99.html. Retrieved February 7, 2008. 
  16. ^ "Kentucky Results: 2000 National Mathcounts Competition, May 12, 2000 – Omni Shoreham Hotel – Washington D.C.". Kentucky Engineering Center. Archived from the original on May 15, 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080515232841/http://www.kyengcenter.org/Mathcounts/2000nationalwinners.htm. Retrieved February 7, 2008. 
  17. ^ "2001 Mathcounts Competition Gives Them A Challenge". Virginia Society of Professional Engineers. http://www.vspe.org/edu__math_challenge.htm. Retrieved February 7, 2008. 
  18. ^ a b "New Jersey Mathcounts". New Jersey Mathcounts. http://www.mathcounts-nj.org/. Retrieved February 7, 2008. 
  19. ^ "Mathcounts 2003 National Results". Kentucky Engineering Center. Archived from the original on 15 May 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080515111310/http://www.kyengcenter.org/Mathcounts/2003NationalMCResults.htm. Retrieved February 7, 2008. 
  20. ^ The students stayed at the national Mathcounts location between May 6 and May 9, with the actual competition taking place on May 7.
  21. ^ "Mathcounts 2004 National Results". Kentucky Engineering Center. Archived from the original on January 7, 2009. http://web.archive.org/web/20090107023308/http://www.kyengcenter.org/mathcounts/2004NationalMCResults.htm. Retrieved February 11, 2008. 
  22. ^ "2004 National Mathcounts Champion". Kentucky Engineering Center. http://sections.asme.org/hawaii/math2004n.htm. Retrieved February 7, 2008. 
  23. ^ The students stayed at the national Mathcounts location May 5 and May 8, with the actual competition taking place on May 6.
  24. ^ "Louisiana Mathcounts". Louisiana Engineering Society Baton Rouge Chapter. http://www.les-state.org/brchapter/Mathcounts.htm. Retrieved February 7, 2008. 
  25. ^ "Sugar Land Kids Won 2005 Mathcounts National Champions". Beestar Educations. http://www.beestar.org/news/news050518.jsp. Retrieved February 7, 2008. 
  26. ^ The students stayed at the national Mathcounts location May 11 and May 14, with the actual competition taking place on May 12.
  27. ^ "2006 National Mathcounts Competition". American Society Of Mechanical Engineers. http://sections.asme.org/hawaii/2006mathnat.htm. Retrieved February 7, 2008. 
  28. ^ The students stayed at the national Mathcounts location May 10 and May 13, with the actual competition taking place on May 11.
  29. ^ "Kevin Chen, Mathcounts National Champion, Wins Best Junior Achiever Relly Award from Live with Regis and Kelly". Business Wire. http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/Mathcounts/relly/prweb555883.htm. Retrieved February 7, 2008. 
  30. ^ "Texas Eighth Grader and Texas Team Awarded Mathematics Champions at Lockheed Martin Mathcounts National Competition – 2007". PR Newswire. http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-11-2007/0004586749&EACCESSDATE=. Retrieved February 7, 2008. 
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  32. ^ "2009 Raytheon Mathcounts National Competition Results". https://mathcounts.org/Page.aspx?pid=1336. Retrieved June 25, 2011. 
  33. ^ http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzYW50YWNsYXJhdmFsbGV5bWF0aGNvdW50c3xneDo0NmUwMjFmYzkyZmU4ZGJl
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  35. ^ http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxzYW50YWNsYXJhdmFsbGV5bWF0aGNvdW50c3xneDozMzkyNzQyYjgwZjFiN2Y1
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