Students win top honors at IUPUI math contest
May 13, 2008
Freshman Michael Luo and sophomore Reid Watson tied for first place in the IUPUI High School Mathematics Contest. Both received a $2,500 scholarship renewable at the IUPUI School of Science, and the Carmel math department received a $250 prize.
Students who participated answered four math questions and wrote an essay applying math to space exploration. Luo wrote about communications to and from a spaceship or satellite, and Watson explored how classical mathematics can be used to explore the gravitational pull of planets on a spacecraft.
Over 450 students from nine different high schools participated in the contest, which is open to all high school students in the 15-county area of central Indiana.
Bart Ng, acting dean of the School of Science at IUPUI, said, “While the contest solutions only require the use of high school algebra or geometry, the problems are much more sophisticated than typical textbook questions. Our faculty are always pleased at the number of students who accept the challenge the contest offers and are impressed at the originality that is evident in their answers.”
Submitted by Brenda Bishop.
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