Minnesota State High School Mathematics League
The Minnesota State High School Mathematics League is a high school mathematics league in the state of Minnesota. It was founded in 1980 by Macalester College professor Wayne Roberts. The league holds five statewide tournaments per year from November through February, as well as a state tournament in March. It is one of the Minnesota Mathematics Competitions.
Regular season[edit]
There are five meets for each regular season. For each meet, there are four individual events, A-D. Each mathlete chooses to compete in two individual events. Each high school chooses its eight top mathletes, including at least two students below the eleventh grade, as its "varsity" team, which actually earns points in the name of the school and competes together in the team event; the other students simply compete for themselves in whichever two individual events they choose. Each individual event contains one one point question and three two point questions, so the maximum a person may score per meet is fourteen points. The team events each contain six questions worth four points each. A team's total score is determined by adding the individual scores of the varsity members and the varsity team score. At the end of the season, teams are selected for the state tournament based on their season score.[1]
State tournament[edit]
The state tournament begins with the Invitational event. The Invitational is a 14-question test (with a maximum score of 24) taken by the top 50 students in the regular season. Later during the day, students participate in a meet that is structured like the regular-season meets (with a maximum score of 14). The combined total score of these two events determines the champion of the state tournament.
Math Bowl[edit]
The Math Bowl brings together the top 10 scorers from the Invitational event, and they compete live onstage, solving eight problems one at a time with a limited amount of time for each problem. The person who solves the most questions is declared the Math Bowl champion. If there is a tie after eight questions, sudden death ensues, in which everyone tied with the highest score remains onstage. They remain onstage until they miss a question someone else got correctly. The last participant remaining is declared the champion. However, should multiple people remain onstage after 14 total questions, the procedure is changed for the 15th (last) question. To ensure that only one person wins the Math Bowl, only the person who correctly answers the 15th question first is declared the champion.
Stan Hill Memorial Award[edit]
The combined total score of the regular season and state tournament determines the top all-around individual and the Stan Hill Memorial Award winner.
Past winners[edit]
The league officially recognizes individual and team winners of two types each season, one with the highest overall regular season score, and one with the highest state tournament score. The league also crowns one math bowl winner each season. Since the 1988-89 season, the league has recognized an additional Tier 2 state tournament winner among smaller schools, with larger schools designated as Tier 1.[2]
Beginning with the 2019-20 season, a weighted scoring system known as "Power Points" was used to rank the top individuals. Team scores continued to use the standard scoring format.[3]
| Year | Individual | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Tournament | Math Bowl | All around | Season | Tournament (Tier 1) | Tournament (Tier 2) | |
| 2022-2023 | Henry Zheng | Henry Zheng | Sneha Kundu | Matthew Chen | Wayzata High School | Wayzata High School | International School of Minnesota |
| 2021-2022 | Henry Zheng | Linden Lee | Linden Lee | Linden Lee | Wayzata High School | Wayzata High School | International School of Minnesota, Eagle Ridge Academy |
| 2020-2021 | Matthew Chen | Linden Lee | Linden Lee | Matthew Chen | Wayzata High School | Wayzata High School | Mankato West High School |
| 2019-2020 | Ben Yan | Timothy Alexander, Alexander Zhu | Alexander Zhu | David Zhang | Wayzata High School | Wayzata High School | Technical Senior High School |
| 2018-2019 | Frank Han, Frank Lu | Frank Han, Frank Lu | Frank Han | Frank Han, Frank Lu | Wayzata High School | Wayzata High School | Highland Park High School |
| 2017-2018 | Geoffrey Chen, Frank Han, Frank Lu, Daniel Stein | Frank Han, Alexander Zhu | Alexander Zhu | Frank Han | Wayzata High School | Century High School | St. John's Preparatory |
| 2016-2017 | Frank Han, Alex Pan, Daniel Stein, Michael Tang | Frank Han, Nikhil Marda, Michael Tang, Nathan Weckwerth, Jenny Zhang | Frank Han | Frank Han, Michael Tang | Wayzata High School | Edina High School | Cotter High School |
| 2015-2016 | Daniel Qu | Kenrick Bjelland, Frank Han, Daniel Qu, Michael Tang | Michael Tang | Daniel Qu | Wayzata High School | Wayzata High School | St. John's Preparatory |
| 2014-2015 | Daniel Qu, Daniel Stein, Henry Wang, Nathan Weckwerth | Jordan Haack | Michael Tang | Jordan Haack | Wayzata High School | Edina High School | St. Paul Academy |
| 2013-2014 | Henry Wang | Michael Tang | Michael Tang | Michael Tang | Wayzata High School | Edina High School | Shattuck-St. Mary's School |
| 2012-2013 | Abram Sanderson | Ian McMeeking, Andy Ylitalo, Roy Zhao | Roy Zhao | Ian McMeeking, Roy Zhao | Wayzata High School | Wayzata High School | St. Paul Academy |
| 2011-2012 | Abram Sanderson | Roy Zhao | Wayzata High School | Wayzata High School | Cotter High School | ||
| 2010-2011 | Rohit Agrawal, Gaurav Singh | Rohit Agrawal, Gaurav Singh | Wayzata High School | Wayzata High School | Cotter High School | ||
| 2009-2010 | Rohit Agrawal, Gaurav Singh | Rohit Agrawal | Wayzata High School | Wayzata High School | St. Paul Academy | ||
| 2008-2009 | Rohit Agrawal | Martin Camacho | Wayzata High School | Wayzata High School | Cotter High School | ||
| 2007-2008 | Shui Hu | Shui Hu | Wayzata High School | Wayzata High School | St. Paul Academy | ||
| 2006-2007 | Nick Arnosti | Rohan Agrawal, Shui Hu | St. Paul Central High School | St. Paul Central High School | The Marshall School | ||
| 2005-2006 | Rohan Agrawal, Shui Hu | Rohan Agrawal | Mounds View High School | Mounds View High School | |||
| 2004-2005 | Silas Johnson | Daniel Gibson | Wayzata High School | Wayzata High School | St. Paul Academy | ||
| 2003-2004 | Ning Zhou | Ning Zhou | Wayzata High School | Wayzata High School | St. Paul Academy | ||
| 2002-2003 | Dan Baker | Daniel Herriges | Highland Park High School | Wayzata High School | St. Paul Academy | ||
| 2001-2002 | Pavel Batrachenko | Matt Thibault | Highland Park High School | Highland Park High School | The Marshall School | ||
| 2000-2001 | Matt Thibault | Michel D'sa | Mounds View High School | St. Paul Central High School | The Marshall School | ||
| 1999-2000 | Andrew Gacek, Sam Lindsay-Levine, Nate Sheetz | Sam Lindsay-Levine | Mounds View High School | Mounds View High School | Benilde-St. Margaret's | ||
| 1998-1999 | Andy Niedermaier | Jon Moon | St. Paul Central High School | St. Paul Academy | Benilde-St. Margaret's | ||
| 1997-1998 | Dave Freeman | Dave Freeman | St. Paul Central High School | Irondale High School | Benilde-St. Margaret's | ||
| 1996-1997 | Jin Wang | Bill Owens | St. Paul Central High School | St. Paul Central High School | The Blake School | ||
| 1995-1996 | Michael Korn | Michael Korn | Mounds View High School | Wayzata High School | The Blake School | ||
| 1994-1995 | Michael Korn | Michael Korn | Mounds View High School | Mounds View High School | St. Paul Academy | ||
| 1993-1994 | Derek Farmer | Matt Koetz | Irondale High School | St. Paul Academy | The Blake School | ||
| 1992-1993 | Mary Hu | Tom Wieand | Bloomington Jefferson High School | Bloomington Jefferson High School | The Blake School | ||
| 1991-1992 | Erik Vee | Kuan-Chuen Wu | Hibbing High School | St. Paul Academy | Moose Lake High School | ||
| 1990-1991 | Ron Dror | Ron Dror | Spring Lake Park High School | Columbia Heights High School | St. Anthony Village High School | ||
| 1989-1990 | Matt Kelly | Matt Kelly | The Blake School | Mounds View High School | St. Anthony Village High School | ||
| 1988-1989 | Steve Walther | Tom Monikowski | Columbia Heights High School | Owatonna High School | St. Paul Academy | ||
| Year | Season | Tournament | Season | Tournament | |||
| 1987-1988 | Josh Brandon | Jim Mashek | Minneapolis South High School | Highland Park High School | |||
| 1986-1987 | Steve Kuhn | Peter Bermann | Saint Louis Park High School | Saint Louis Park High School | |||
| 1985-1986 | Hieu Nguyen | Tom Chung | Apple Valley High School | ||||
| 1984-1985 | Paul Ohman | Tom Chung | Saint Louis Park High School | St. Paul Academy | |||
| 1983-1984 | Mike Pavloff | Minneapolis South High School | |||||
| 1982-1983 | Bob Fink | Hibbing High School | |||||
| Year | Twin City Division | Iron Range Division | Twin City Division | Iron Range Division | |||
| 1981-1982 | Son Nguyen | Joe Baraga | Highland Park High School | Hibbing High School | |||
| 1980-1981 | Erik Riddle | Como Park Senior High School | |||||
All-state math teams[edit]
The Minnesota State High School Mathematics League sponsors the Minnesota All-State Mathematics Teams, which compete annually at ARML (American Regions Mathematics League), HMMT (Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament) and some other college math competitions. Selection is based on the math league regular season and state tournament scores and American Mathematics Competitions scores. The MN All-State Gold Team is the first team, consisting of 15 students for ARML and 8 students for HMMT. Traditionally MN All-State Math Teams have had many successes in these national competitions.
References[edit]
- ↑ "MINNESOTA STATE HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICS LEAGUE: LEAGUE MANUAL 2020-2021" (PDF). Minnesota State High School Mathematics League. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
- ↑ 1980-2005 data from Roberts, A. Wayne (2005). Minnesota Math League XXV. Beaver's Pond Press. ISBN 1-59298-111-9. Search this book on
- ↑ "Math League Scoring Changes 2019-2020" (PDF). Minnesota State High School Mathematics League. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
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