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Results of the TI China 2012 Summer Creative Math Contest
« on: January 20, 2013, 01:10:04 am »
In August, 2012, TI China hold a math contest lasting two months. Competitors are required to use NSpire calclators to solve several math and physics problems.
http://education.ti.com/zh-CN/china/students/2012_summer_creative_math_contest/annoucement-and-rules

And the first prize is an iPad2!
Well the contest was already over on September 30th, 2012.

Let's see the answer given by the first-prize winner:
http://education.ti.com/zh-CN/china/students/2012_summer_creative_math_contest/reviews-answer-key-and-winning-sheets
http://education.ti.com/zh-cn/china/~/media/Education/sites/CHINA/downloads/pdf/2012_ti_math_creative_contest_winningsheet_1_zhanglei.pdf
I think it's a quite amazing answer sheet.

Next time, if there are some contests, I will inform you!  ;D
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Re: Results of the TI China 2012 Summer Creative Math Contest
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2013, 01:12:08 am »
Interesting. I wonder if those contests are limited to CHina?
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Re: Results of the TI China 2012 Summer Creative Math Contest
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2013, 01:12:55 am »
Probably since all the resources linked were on the chinese part of TI's website and he said it was hosted by TI-China
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Re: Results of the TI China 2012 Summer Creative Math Contest
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2013, 02:58:48 am »
Quote from: northern_snow on January 20, 2013, 01:10:04 am
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Next time, if there are some contests, I will inform you!  ;D
Hum, the pdf looks quite interesting, but not easy to read  :(. At least for me. Any chance of an English translation?
Thanks for letting us know about it.
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Re: Results of the TI China 2012 Summer Creative Math Contest
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2013, 04:26:09 am »
The kid's name is imath?! Really? Haha! Also, those are high school students?  :o

I found a list of the finalists here:
http://education.ti.com/educationportal/framework/print/print.jsp?pageId=/sites/CHINA/nonProductMulti/2012_summer_creative_math_contest.html&bid=4

I tried looking for more information about imath's school (四川成铁中学), all i could find is that someone from that school apparently hanged themself in the bathroom last year... Does "imath" really exist?

It's a cool competition, but way above my head :D
« Last Edit: January 20, 2013, 04:26:41 am by chickendude »
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Re: Results of the TI China 2012 Summer Creative Math Contest
« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2013, 01:46:52 pm »
Okay, I Google translated some of this, and saw this
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如一江春水向东流，人们对数字的认识乃至对数学的认识也随之加深，譬如三次函数，现在却只
Either Google translate confuses me, or they have soul searching math in China
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Re: Results of the TI China 2012 Summer Creative Math Contest
« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2013, 02:16:16 pm »
That's a pretty lame first prize, isn't the iPad 2 like 8x worse than the iPad 4?

Hey kids, compete for this awesome tech from 3 years ago!
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Re: Results of the TI China 2012 Summer Creative Math Contest
« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2013, 06:07:59 pm »
8x or 83?
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Re: Results of the TI China 2012 Summer Creative Math Contest
« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2013, 01:56:31 am »
Quote from: Rhombicuboctahedron on January 20, 2013, 01:46:52 pm
Okay, I Google translated some of this, and saw this
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如一江春水向东流，人们对数字的认识乃至对数学的认识也随之加深，譬如三次函数，现在却只
Either Google translate confuses me, or they have soul searching math in China


Lol... That's quite a literary sentence: He just quoted a poem.
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Re: Results of the TI China 2012 Summer Creative Math Contest
« Reply #9 on: February 05, 2013, 02:45:38 am »
Quote from: squidgetx on January 20, 2013, 02:16:16 pm
That's a pretty lame first prize, isn't the iPad 2 like 8x worse than the iPad 4?

Hey kids, compete for this awesome tech from 3 years ago!
Maybe that's the latest iPad available in China? Sometimes stuff have an hard time getting through China. For example, the NES had a different name there.
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Re: Results of the TI China 2012 Summer Creative Math Contest
« Reply #10 on: February 05, 2013, 12:34:58 pm »
People in China will do a lot for an iPad. I remember hearing about a kid who sold a kidney so that he could get one.
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Re: Results of the TI China 2012 Summer Creative Math Contest
« Reply #11 on: February 05, 2013, 12:53:42 pm »
Quote from: DJ_O on February 05, 2013, 02:45:38 am
Quote from: squidgetx on January 20, 2013, 02:16:16 pm
That's a pretty lame first prize, isn't the iPad 2 like 8x worse than the iPad 4?

Hey kids, compete for this awesome tech from 3 years ago!
Maybe that's the latest iPad available in China? Sometimes stuff have an hard time getting through China. For example, the NES had a different name there.
Well, Mainland China, being a communist/socialist state, isn't exactly best friends with the rest of the world. So yeah, stuff might differ in China, especially stuff from US.
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Re: Results of the TI China 2012 Summer Creative Math Contest
« Reply #12 on: February 05, 2013, 01:02:36 pm »
Actually it was the iQue console that was released in China. It was a Nintendo 64 built into a gamepad that you plugged directly in the TV. It came out in 2003 there and apparently it's the only Nintendo console ever released in China (and it was actually co-developed with another company).
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