South East Asian Mathematics Competition

South East Asian Mathematics Competition
South East Asian Mathematics Competition
Genre	Mathematics competition
Frequency	Annual
Inaugurated	March 2001
Most recent	21 August 2021
Website	https://seamo-official.org

The South East Asian Mathematics Competition (SEAMC) is a 3-day mathematics competition held in a predesignated location in southeast Asia.^[1]^{[verification needed]} It is a qualifying competition by Eunoia Ventures for invitation to the .^[2]^{[failed verification]}^[3] The best ranked students in the competition go on to compete in the World Mathematics Championships.^[4] The event is non-profit.^[5]

This championships embodies the spirit of communication, collaboration, creativity, critical thinking (strategy), content knowledge, character, and cultural competence through the diverse range of competitors and schools from various countries.^[6]^{[weasel words]}

General information[]

Host venue locations of the SEAMC changes annually^{[citation needed]}, although online version is now possible due to Covid.^[7]

Eligibility[]

The Senior Competition is open to all students in Grade 12 (Year 13) or younger.^[4] The Junior Competition is open to all students in Grade 9 (Year 10) or younger.^[4] The Secondary Competition is open to all students in Grade 7 (Year 8) or younger during the month of the event and Primary level for Grade 5 (Year 6) or younger.^[8]^[9] Participants should be from a school in South Asia; in the past, teams have came from China, Thailand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Nepal.^[5]

The competition[]

History[]

SEAMC and NEAMC are mathematics collaboration experience for school students located in South or North East Asia to come together for 2-3 days.^{[citation needed]}

SEAMC was first conceived of by Steve Warry, who taught at Alice Smith School in Kuala Lumpur, and who believed that mathematics could be a spectator sport.^[4] Based on this, he organised the South East Asian Mathematics Competition Plus (SEAMC) in March 2001. He died the week prior to the competition, but the event occurred anyway.^[4] Teams competed for the Warry Cup, which is named in Steve's honour.^[5]

From 2014, the NEAMC sister event has been organised for students in North East Asia.^{[citation needed]} The organizers enlisted the Nanjing International School to host it initially in February 2014 with the help of Malcolm Coad.^[4]^[10]

In 2017, the SNEAMC family of events became the World Mathematics Championships.^[4]

Format[]

Each school enters teams of 3 students each.^[4] The competition has nine rounds.^[4]

All WMC qualifying competitions have:

3 days of engagement
9 equally weighted rounds
6 skills categories for prizes
The best sum ranking across all 9 rounds win

School teams engage within the Communication skills rounds.^{[citation needed]}

The Collaboration skills rounds (Open, Lightning and Innovation) are in buddy teams of three.^[4] The Challenge are skills rounds undertaken as individuals.

Three skills rounds are (subject specific skills and procedures) knowledge based, three are (plan and execute) strategy focused and three depend upon (new and imaginative ideas) creativity.^{[citation needed]}

So each strategy, creative and knowledge skill category is engaged in alone, in school teams and in buddy teams.^{[citation needed]}

Past questions can be found around the web.^[9]

In many SEAMC competitions, there are initial icebreaker events.^[8]

Prizes[]

There are many prizes to be had, with the most important being the intangibles that one gains from such an experience.^{[citation needed]} On top of that:

All participants receive a transcript of relative attainment in each of the 9 rounds.
The highest ranked individuals in each category receive medals.
The highest ranked individuals across all 9 rounds receive medals.
The best ranked school team across all 9 rounds receive a respectively named Cup (for the SEAMC Junior competition, this is the original Warry Cup).^{[citation needed]}

The better ranked teams across all of the competition venues that year are invited to the ultimate World Mathematics Championships showdown, hosted by Trinity College, University of Melbourne in the following July each year.^{[citation needed]}

Results[]

Past team winners^{[citation needed]}[]

2020 - UWCSEA East, Singapore
2019 - British School Manila, Philippines
2018 - British School Manila, Philippines; Saigon South International School Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2017 - British School Manila, Philippines (Senior), Singapore American School, Singapore (Junior)^[11]
2016 - British International School Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam ^[8]
2015 - Singapore Chinese School, Singapore
2014 - Hong Kong International School, Hong Kong^[10]
2013 - Chinese International School, Hong Kong
2012 - Chinese International School, Hong Kong
2011 - West Island School, Hong Kong
2010 - British International School, Vietnam (Jaeho Han, Cheewon Oh, Jungmin Kang)
2009 - German Swiss International School, Hong Kong
2008 - UWCSEA Dover, Singapore
2007 - KGV, Hong Kong, China
2006 - KGV, Hong Kong, China
2005 - Island School, Hong Kong, China
2004 - Island School, Hong Kong, China
2003 - Garden IS, Kuala Lumpur
2002 - Island School, Hong Kong, China
2001 - South Island School, Hong Kong, China

World Mathematics Championship June 2018 Results^[12][]

Senior Level

Winner : Julian Yu
Runner Up : Yan Pui Matthew Ling
Runner Up : Wye Yew Ho
Runner Up : Kevin Xin
Runner Up : Linda Wang

Junior Level

Winner : Seung Jae Yang
Runner Up : Arunav Maheshwari
Runner Up : Jangju Lee
Runner Up : Ryusuke Suehiro
Runner Up : Ravi Bahukhandi
Runner Up : Soumyaditya Choudhuri
Runner Up : Tanai Chotanphuti

World Mathematics Championship December 2018 Results^{[citation needed]}[]

Winner : Palis Pisuttisarun
Runner Up : Ho Wang Tang
Runner Up : Byung Hoo Park
Runner Up : Rocco Jiang

Past individual winners^{[citation needed]}[]

2020 - This has not been held yet due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2019 -
2018 - Juhee (Jessie) Hong, Singapore American School, Singapore
2017 - Tiffany Ong, British School Manila; Rahul Arya, King George V School
2016 - Otto Winata, Sampoerna Academy Medan, Indonesia
2015 - Alex Lee, Taipei European School, Taipei
2014 - Tie between Kyung Chan Lee, Garden International School, KL, and Michael Wu, Hong Kong International School, Hong Kong
2013 - Joanna Cheng, South Island School, Hong Kong
2012 - Charles Meng, Chinese International School, Hong Kong
2011 - Alexander Cooke, South Island School, Hong Kong
2010 - Ki Yun Kim, JIS, Indonesia
2009 - Joon Young Lee, ISB, China
2008 - Dong Wook Chung, UWCSEA, Singapore
2007 - Oliver Huang, KGV, Hong Kong
2006 - En Seng Ng, SAS, Singapore
2005 - Tiffany Lau, Island School, Hong Kong
2004 - Otto Chan, Island School, Hong Kong
2003 - Ernest Chia, Garden IS, Kuala Lumpur
2002 - Ernest Chia, Garden IS, Kuala Lumpur
2001 - John Chan, WIS, Hong Kong

References[]

^ "Google Sites". accounts.google.com. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
^ "World Mathematics Championships". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2021-05-17.
^ "Eunoia Ventures". Eunoia Ventures. Archived from the original on 30 November 2020. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j "Competition Academy". Archived from the original on 2018-03-06. Retrieved 11 Apr 2021.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "SEAMC : The S.E. Asia Mathematics Competition". Retrieved 2021-04-11.
^ Ventures, Eunoia. "Eunoia Ventures". Eunoia Ventures. Retrieved 2021-05-17.
^ "Southeast Asian Mathematical Olympiad | Guidelines". seamo-official.org. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "2016 SEAMC Competition". www.nordangliaeducation.com. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "SEAMC : The S.E. Asia Mathematics Competition: Past SEAMC Questions". Retrieved 2021-04-11.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "South East Asian Maths Competition (2014) | Alice Smith School". 21 Mar 2014. Archived from the original on 2017-09-06. Retrieved 11 Apr 2021.
^ "South East Asian Mathematics Competition (SEAMC) 2017". KGV - ESF. 2017-05-12. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
^ "WMC Finals - Awards Ceremony". Facebook. 2017-05-12. Retrieved 2021-06-22.

External links[]

Official website of Eunoia Ventures

[1] "Google Sites". accounts.google.com. Retrieved 2021-04-11.

[2] "World Mathematics Championships". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2021-05-17.

[3] "Eunoia Ventures". Eunoia Ventures. Archived from the original on 30 November 2020. Retrieved 8 September 2021.

[:0-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j "Competition Academy". Archived from the original on 2018-03-06. Retrieved 11 Apr 2021.

[:1-5] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "SEAMC : The S.E. Asia Mathematics Competition". Retrieved 2021-04-11.

[6] Ventures, Eunoia. "Eunoia Ventures". Eunoia Ventures. Retrieved 2021-05-17.

[7] "Southeast Asian Mathematical Olympiad | Guidelines". seamo-official.org. Retrieved 2021-09-08.

[:2-8] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "2016 SEAMC Competition". www.nordangliaeducation.com. Retrieved 2021-04-11.

[:3-9] Jump up to: ^a ^b "SEAMC : The S.E. Asia Mathematics Competition: Past SEAMC Questions". Retrieved 2021-04-11.

[:4-10] Jump up to: ^a ^b "South East Asian Maths Competition (2014) | Alice Smith School". 21 Mar 2014. Archived from the original on 2017-09-06. Retrieved 11 Apr 2021.

[11] "South East Asian Mathematics Competition (SEAMC) 2017". KGV - ESF. 2017-05-12. Retrieved 2021-04-11.

[12] "WMC Finals - Awards Ceremony". Facebook. 2017-05-12. Retrieved 2021-06-22.

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