GO for Gold: 2012 Philippine IMO Team

[reshiram]

GO for Gold! Mga imba naman tong mga to. hehe..

bakit kaya bumalik na naman sa 3-member team ang RP? di-tuloy nakasama yung idol/friend ko. haha.

[TTJ]

naks,may PhD na si Julius. goodluck Philippine IMO team!

[reshiram]

naks,may PhD na si Julius. goodluck Philippine IMO team!

dba assoc. prof na nga siya? 2005 pa pala nga siya nagka Ph.D.
kabatch niyo po? hehe

[curiouser]

Off-topic: May bagong thread na naman ang love team na ito.

Go Team Philippines! Bukas na yan ah. At mukhang puro of Chinese descent pa ang ating contestants.

[jielun]

Yung mukha ni Sir Julius, parang ni-watercolor effect sa Photoshop (or pwede rin naman tinaasan ang contrast at brightness

Ay naku, buti na lang may mga Tsinoy dito sa Pilipinas kundi wala tayong maipapanlaban sa IMO. Kahit nga mga pinapadala ng Indonesia at Malaysia, mga Chinese din ang apelyido.

Goodluck sa inyo!

[jielun]

At siguradong China na naman manghahakot ng Gold. I wish I were born Chinese.

[TTJ]

dba assoc. prof na nga siya? 2005 pa pala nga siya nagka Ph.D.
kabatch niyo po? hehe

sino may sabi sa yong pwede mo ko kausapin?

[keymaker]

MANILA, Philippines – A Filipino high school student bagged the silver medal at the prestigious Asian-Pacific Math Olympiad (APMO), a first for the country.

Henry Jefferson Morco of Chiang Kai Shek College scored 23 points in the APMO, a correspondence-type competition held last March 13.

Morco was only a point shy of winning the gold medal, which required a minimum of 24 points. A silver medal demanded at least 18 points, while a bronze medal required 12 points.

Kenneth Co of Philippine Science High School – Diliman scored 16 points to win the bronze medal.

Adrian Reginald Sy, Mikaela Angelina Uy, Camille Tyrene Dee and John Thomas Chuatak, meanwhile, won honorable mentions.

Dr. Filma Brawner, director of the Science Education Institute of the Department of Science and Technology, congratulated Morco, Co and the others on their achievement.

“I congratulate all our students who represented us, especially Henry and Kenneth, for winning silver and bronze medals, respectively,” Brawner said in a statement. “This is what we emphasize when we support our students in these kinds of competitions – that Filipinos are winners.”

Last year, Morco and Amiel Sy of PSHS won two bronze medals in last year’s APMO. The Philippines has been bringing home bronze medals since 2008.

Difficult contest

The APMO, which started in 1989, aims to discover math geniuses in Pacific Rim countries. Here, students are presented with five difficult math questions, giving them four hours to solve each problem.

Each question carried a maximum of seven points.

This year, the Philippines scored a total of 97 points, ranking 20th out of 37 participating countries. South Korea topped the APMO once again, followed by the United States, Thailand, Russia and Japan.

“This competition is very difficult and hence, for our students to win some medals is commendable,” Brawner said. “We hope that this inspires our future delegates to strive more in coming competitions.”

Morco and the other winners in this year’s APMO will represent the country in the upcoming International Mathematics Olympiad, which will be held from July 14 to 16 in Mar de Plata, Argentina.

“We hope that our students consider this victory and experience as a whole as their calling to be future leaders in the field of science and mathematics,” Brawner said.

Kasali yung three constestants sa IMO dito.

[TTJ]

Baka nga yan ang basehan ng pagpili nila sa IMO delegates eh.

[rac_enroll]

The Thais and Indonesians, and I believe the Vietnamese performed better than the Philippines.

[jielun]

I think mga nanalo sa PMO yung mga delegates, although hindi naman surprising na sila-sila rin ang nanalo. (Parang formality na lang yung PMO kung nagkaroon man.)

Makes me wonder, 20th tayo out of 37. Kelangan talagang magkaroon ng early detection at cultivation (LOLZ) ng mga potential IMO contestants.

I wonder how we fare with other olympiads like Bio, Chem, Phys, Programming, etc. or if we join these competitions at all. I heard there is even an International Philosophy Olympiad.

[curiouser]

Upping for jielun.

Hindi ko mahanap yung IMO 2012 thread pero congratulations sa Team Philippines!

Kenneth Co - Bronze Medalist
Mikaela Angelina Uy - Bronze Medalist
Henry Jefferson Co Morco - Honourable Mention

[curiouser]

According to this, we're ranked 73rd overall for 2012 (down from 54th in 2011).

http://www.imo-official.org/team_r.a...=PHI&year=2012

This makes it at par with our ranking in the late 90's, but nowhere near our ranking in the late 80's to early 90's.

[keymaker]

According to this, we're ranked 73rd overall for 2012 (down from 54th in 2011).

http://www.imo-official.org/team_r.a...=PHI&year=2012

This makes it at par with our ranking in the late 90's, but nowhere near our ranking in the late 80's to early 90's.

We only sent three contestant when most countries sent 6. If we doubled our score, I know it doesn't necessarily folow that our score would be double if we sent 6 contestants, we'd end up at 46.

[reshiram]

awts. Medyo disappointing ang results. Ang laki pa naman ng tiwala ko sa kanila kasi mga veteran na sila sa mga international math competitions/olympiads pero hindi pa rin nila nasungkit ang Gold. May tatlong bagay ang pumasok sa isipan ko kung bakit. hehe. Una, Parang pag lalong tumatanda/tumuntong ng college ang mga representatives natin na parang pinakainaasahan, bumababa ang score nila (hehe) just like what just happened to Lao last year and Morco this year. Lao got silver in her 2nd to the last year and just bronze in her last year while Morco who got bronze last year just got an HM this year. Ikalawa, maybe hindi pa talaga time ng Pilipinas para magka-Gold or maybe maging wake-up call lang ito sa mga Pilipino para pag-igihin pa sa mga susunod na taon lalo na may K-12 na tayo. yey! haha. Ikatlo, akin na lang yun. haha.

OT: Nakikisama ata ang panahon ngayon ah. Haha. We had our school-based Press Conference today and our topic in editorial was about K-12. Isa sa point ko dun ay kaya siguro tayo relatively mababa ang ranking sa IMO compared sa ating contemporaries dahil hindi K-12 ang ating curriculum. Kahit mga Chinese-blooded pa ang mga isend natin, we always fail to obtain that elusive gold. Kaya i'm hypothesizing na kung hindi pa tayo maka-gold next year, baka pag grade 10 or 11 na yung mga Gr.7 ngayon natin maachieve ang feat na yun and that is perhaps some 3-5 years more.

[reshiram]

Kasali yung three constestants sa IMO dito.

I've read somewhere na ito nga po sguro ang naging basehan ng selection of representatives natin for IMO. I think sa MSP or SEI ko po nabasa.

[jielun]

We should seriously get talents starting from grade school, wag nang pakawalan, i hone nang i hone. Bigyan ng magandang budget ang training.

[reshiram]

I think mga nanalo sa PMO yung mga delegates, although hindi naman surprising na sila-sila rin ang nanalo. (Parang formality na lang yung PMO kung nagkaroon man.)

It was just a coincidence lang po na sila ang nagtop 3 sa PMO national stage last year. Yung APMO po ang naging basis. http://www.sei.dost.gov.ph/index.php?z=259. Kasi kung yung PMO lang, maski ako po kaya ko pang masolve ang mga problems sa PMO up to the national stage pero yung sa APMO at IMO, ay naku, nevermind. Hanggang idea na lang ang solution ko. haha..

Makes me wonder, 20th tayo out of 37. Kelangan talagang magkaroon ng early detection at cultivation (LOLZ) ng mga potential IMO contestants.

tama po kayo. May natandaan akong nabasa ko na interview kay Ms. Lao noon after winning her 1st bronze na dapat daw, 1st year pa lang, alam na dapat ng Pilipinas ang contestants nila para mahasa na nila nito for the succeeding years para comes the IMO, ready na tayo. If Tao can why can't we? haha.


[QUOTE=jielun;63611335I wonder how we fare with other olympiads like Bio, Chem, Phys, Programming, etc. or if we join these competitions at all. I heard there is even an International Philosophy Olympiad.[/QUOTE]

IIRC, there were a lot of times na hindi nagparticipate ang PH sa IPhO. May programming at Philo? haha.

[p1215]

According to this, we're ranked 73rd overall for 2012 (down from 54th in 2011).

http://www.imo-official.org/team_r.a...=PHI&year=2012

This makes it at par with our ranking in the late 90's, but nowhere near our ranking in the late 80's to early 90's.

Our ranking is indeed down compared to last year. However, I have to raise some points.

1. We are # 73 if we base the rankings on the total scores per country -- since we sent only 3 students while almost everybody else sent 6, the resulting ranking of the Philippine team will tend to be biased downward. In gauging how well our 3-contestant team performed, it might be more informative to make a ranking based on the total score of the best 3 members of each team. When I did this I found out that the Philippines is tied for #63to66 out of 100 countries based on this criteria.

2. If you look at absolute rankings, it would appear that the late 80's to early 90's performance was better.But please note that the number of participating countries from 1988 to 1995 was only between 42 and 65 - so the worst possible absolute ranking in those years was 65th. I believe that it's more sensible to compare relative negative ranking - 100% being the highest and 0% being the lowest. Based on this link:
http://www.imo-official.org/country_....aspx?code=PHI


Our relative inverse ranking from the late 80's up to 1995 were:
1988-10.42(6)
1989-14.29(6)
1990-11.32(6)
1991-25.45(4)
1992-21.82(4)
1993-29.17(6)
1994-23.53(6)
1995-11.11(5)

While our relative inverse ranking from 2008 to 2012 were:
2008-11.46 (3)
2009-25.24 (4)
2010-23.96 (3)
2011-47.00 (5)
2012-27.27 (3)

The figures inside the parenthesis are the number of contestants sent.

Conclusion: In the late 1980's to early 1990's the only delegation that outperformed the 2012 delegation in terms of inverse ranking was the 1993 delegation - however there were 6 contestants in the 1993 delegation compared to 3 contestants in the 2012 delegation.

We can compare the inverse ranks of the individual participants from the 1993 and 2012 delegations:

2012
Co-53.56%
Uy-53.56%
Morco-49.36%
(all three are clustered in the middle of the pack)

1993-
W.Chan-73.30%
Gonzales-31.31%
Tugade- 17.96%
Lim-17.96%
B.Chan-12.86%

Reference: http://www.imo-official.org/country_...ear&order=desc

[reshiram]

Grabe lang ang South Korea. Most of their representatives this year ay mga 1st-timers, pero Gold lahat sila at naungusan pa ang China. haha.