South East Asian Mathematics Competition Explained

South East Asian Mathematics Competition
Frequency:	Annual
Genre:	Mathematics competition
Website:	https://seamc.asia
First:	March 2001
Last:	18 November 2023

The South East Asian Mathematics Competition (SEAMC) is an annual three-day non-profit mathematics competition for Southeast Asian students at different grade levels. It is a qualifying competition organized by Eunoia Ventures for invitation to the World Mathematics Championships.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Teams have participated from China, Thailand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Nepal.

Host venue locations of the SEAMC changes annually. An online version was held due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.^[4]

Eligibility

• The Senior Competition is open to all students in Grade 12 (Year 13) or younger.
• The Junior Competition is open to all students in Grade 9 (Year 10) or younger.
• 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.

The competition

History

SEAMC is a mathematics collaboration experience for school students located in South or North East Asia to come together for 2-3 days.

SEAMC was conceived of by Steve Warry, who taught at Alice Smith School in Kuala Lumpur. He organised SEAMC in March 2001. He died one week prior to the first competition. Teams competed for the Warry Cup, which is named in Steve's honour.

From 2014, the NEAMC sister event has been organised for students in Northeast Asia.^[5] The organizers enlisted the Nanjing International School to host it initially in February 2014 with the help of Malcolm Coad.^[6]

In 2017, the SNEAMC family of events became the World Mathematics Championships.

Format

Each school enters teams of 3 students each. The competition has nine rounds.

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.

The Collaboration skills rounds (Open, Lightning and Innovation) are in buddy teams of three.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.

So each strategy, creative and knowledge skill category is engaged in alone, in school teams and in buddy teams.

Past questions can be found around the web.^[7]

In many SEAMC competitions, there are initial icebreaker events.

Prizes

• 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).

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.

Results

Past team winners

• 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)^[8]
• 2016 - British International School Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam ^[9]
• 2015 - Singapore Chinese School, Singapore
• 2014 - Hong Kong International School, Hong Kong
• 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^[10]

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

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

Past individual winners

• 2020 - This has not been held yet due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• 2019 - Andrew Chang, Singapore American School, Singapore
• 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, Kuala Lumpur, 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

External links

• Official website of Eunoia Ventures

Notes and References

1. Web site: Eunoia Ventures. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20201130141439/https://eunoia.ventures/competition/competition_594202f68393a0.67333832. 30 November 2020. 8 September 2021. Eunoia Ventures. en.
2. Web site: Competition Academy. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20180306202448/http://competition.ac/competition/competition_59f041fe1b6c12.09521433. 2018-03-06. 11 April 2021.
3. Web site: SEAMC : The S.E. Asia Mathematics Competition. 2021-04-11. en.
4. Web site: Southeast Asian Mathematics Competition Guidelines. 2021-09-08. seamc.
5. Web site: Eunoia Ventures . Eunoia ventures . 23 June 2019 . WMC .
6. Web site: 21 Mar 2014. South East Asian Maths Competition (2014) Alice Smith School. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20170906223527/http://www.alice-smith.edu.my/media/news/article/424/South-East-Asia-Maths-Competition-SEAMC-2014. 2017-09-06. 11 Apr 2021.
7. Web site: SEAMC : The S.E. Asia Mathematics Competition: Past SEAMC Questions. 2021-04-11. en.
8. Web site: 2017-05-12. South East Asian Mathematics Competition (SEAMC) 2017. 2021-04-11. KGV - ESF. en-GB.
9. Web site: 2016 SEAMC Competition. 2021-04-11. www.nordangliaeducation.com. en.
10. Web site: 2017-05-12. WMC Finals - Awards Ceremony. 2021-06-22. Facebook. en-GB.