The 7th

Math
Tournament

Most experienced
problem writers and
graders from Standford
Math Tournament(SMT),
Harvard-MIT Math
Tournament(HMMT),
Princeton University
Math Competition
(PUMaC), Berkeley Math
Tournament(BMT) and
John's Hopkins Math
16th Aug, 2020 I Online Contest I 4-6 students per team I
Tournament(JHMT) Interactive math Challenges one week before the contest
 Moor Xu
Standford/ UC Berkeley，Mathematics
Ex-Standford Math Tournament director, 10 years as problem writer and head assessor

Dear Math Coaches and Students,

This has been an unusual year. The pandemic brought disruption to peoples' lives around the world. We
needed to change how we live, how we work, and how we learn. Faced with these challenges, we adapted
and persevered. Schools were thrust into an unplanned experiment in online learning, and I am inspired by
the extra effort that teachers, parents, and students put in to make it work. While we are unable to travel to
China this summer to hold AMT as usual, we are building on the foundation of all of your hard work to adapt
AMT into an online math tournament. On behalf of this summer's AMT Director Team, I would like to invite
you to join us online for the 7th Annual ASDAN Math Tournament on August 16, 2020.

The ASDAN Math Tournament is led by a team of students and alumni from top US universities with deep
experience in organizing math tournaments. AMT directors have written problems for contests such as the
Stanford Math Tournament (SMT), Harvard-MIT Math Tournament (HMMT), Berkeley Math Tournament (BMT),
and the Princeton University Math Competition (PUMaC). Our director team brings together highlights from
each of these contests into a single event that showcases the essence of a US math tournament.

The AMT is not only a math tournament -- it is also a venue for building a stronger global math community.
This year's disruptions make the mission of AMT more important than ever before. We have been isolated
away from each other during this pandemic, but we are not alone. The AMT community is bound by shared
passions and by a shared belief that math is fun. This summer, we will meet to rekindle those connections,
and I hope to see you there.

Director of ASDAN Math Tournament

Problems Writers and Assessors

Benjamin Chen HMMT Organizer
Harrison Ho Stanford Computer Science I SMT Problem Writer and Organizer
Edward Dai Stanford Mathematical and Computational Science I 3 years as SMT Problem Assessor
Julia Huang MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science I HMMT Problem Writer
Aaron Lin MIT Computer and Cognitive Science I HMMT & BMT Problem Writer
Samuel Marks Princeton Mathematics I PUMaC Organizer
Bill Huang Princeton Mathematics I PUMaC Head Grader and Problem Writer
Benjamin Ponede UC Berkeley Ph.D. Candidate in Theoretical Physics SMT Problem Writer for 5 years；
Founder of JHMT
Ronald Kwan UC Berkeley Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science I Experience with BMT
Nathan Wong UC Berkeley Mathematics I Experience with BMT
Why
Choose

Problems
AMT is led by a team of students and alumni from top US universities with
deep experience in organizing math tournaments. It aims to make it suitable
for Chinese students, while retaining the concepts and essence of the major
math competitions.

Team Work
AMT is a team-based competition where participants need to work
collaboratively to solve problems. Students need to form a team of 4-6.

Novel Format
Integrate the essence of various math competitions, such as Team round,
Guts round, Math Challenges, etc., involving students to collaborate and
interact.

Math Social
More than 5000 players from 200 schools have taken part in past 6 years.
They could make lifelong friends with the same interests. These informal
interactions are some of the most valuable experiences from AMT.

High Winning Rate

AMT does not focus on the scores, but more on the different ways to discover
math beauty through this event and stimulate students' interest in math
learning. Therefore, AMT has set a high winning rate of nearly 50%.

Application Advantage
Beneficial for applying science majors in top universities.

Training Before Contest

Provide twice online mock exam and 6 sets of past papers and solutions.
Besides, math challenges will be arranged one week before the official
contest so as to improve the interaction between teams.
Rules
• Language: English
• Team Size: 4-6 students per team
• Form: Online Contest (require computer and mobile equipped with camera)
Note: It is recommended that team members gather together offline to participate in the contest.

Individual Test
Individual round: 80-minute exam consisting of 15 short answer questions, including algebra, geometry, discrete math

Team Test
• Power Round：Proof-based questions will be issued one week before the contest. Please complete and submit
the questions within 2 days.
• Team Round ：50-minute exam consisting of 15 short answer questions.
• Guts Round ：80-minute team competition with 9 sets of short answer questions. Each set has 3-4 questions.
A team can begin the next problem set only after this team has already completed and submitted the former
problem set. Grading is immediate and scores are posted in real time.

Agenda Award Setting

Date Schedule High
Subject Top 3 Distinction Credit Honorable
Distinction
8.8 Release Power Round
Individual
8.9 Submit Power Round Top1. 2. 3 Top 10 Top10% Top25% Top40%
Round

8.16（Sunday） Team
Top1. 2. 3 Top10% Top25% Top40%
Round
08:30-09:00 Registration Power
Top1. 2. 3 Top10% Top25% Top40%
Round
09:00-09:30 Opening Ceremony
Guts
Top1. 2. 3 Top10% Top25% Top40%
09:30-11:00 Individual Round Round
A.M.
11:00-12:00 Math Challenge 1 Overall Top1. 2. 3 Top10% Top25% Top40%

11:30-12:30 Lunch Overall Award: Individual round accounted for 40%, Guts round
12:45-13:00 Tiebreaker accounted for 30%, and Team round accounted for 30%.
13:00-14:00 Math Challenge 2 ※Power round will be ranked separately and won't be

14:00-14:30 Rest; Online Grouping counted into the total score of the team on the day of the
contest.
P.M. 14:30-15:30 Team Round
15:30-17:30 Guts Round
17:30-20:00 Dinner
Closing&Awarding
20:00-21:00
Ceremony
AMT Math Challenge Week

1 Day Competition+1 Week Math Challenge

AMT math challenge, which is an online interaction between the
AMT directors and all participating students to experience the
charm of math and share the fun of learning math, will be held
one week before the competition, from 10am to 12am every day.

Math Challenge Examples

Select 2 players from different teams. let them

Countdown
see the question at the same time, whoever
answers correctly first stays. Then choose the next
player to match with the player who stays in the
last round. And so on. All players can watch and
experience the speed of the math competition.

This challenge is a warm up for Guts round. By

Guts Round doing the questions and ranking in real time, see

Trial
the rate of the correct answerer, and the speed of
answering the questions. After finishing a set of
questions, immediately start the next set of questions.
Experience the collision of speed and wisdom.

This challenge is for those who have already

Integration studied calculus, or who are interested
bee in calculus. Students can discuss with
other teammates who also like calculus.

Through mock exam, students can get familiar with

Mock the test environment, cooperate with teammates
Exam in advance, and make preparations for the official
contest.

T h ro u g h t h e c o m m o n s e n s e o r k n o w l e d g e
mastered, one can use the mathematical
Estimation principles in life to estimate the values. In
this challenge, team members not only pay
attention to the math itself, but also increase
the mutual communication between the teams.
Previous Winner Teams
2019
SEED-3 Team
SEED-9 Team
Shanghai Starriver Bilingual School
The Experimental High School Attached to
Beijing Normal University
The High School Affiliated to Renmin
2018
University of China
The Experimental High School Attached to
Beijing Normal University Team 2
Shanghai American School(Pudong)
SEED-6 Team
SEED-4 Team
Shanghai High School International Division
2017
SEED 12 Team
The High School Affiliated to Renmin
University of China Team 4
The Experimental High School Attached to
Beijing Normal University Team 2
The Experimental High School Attached to
Beijing Normal University Team 3
2016
Nanjing Foreign Language School Team1
Shanghai High School International Division
Nanjing Foreign Language School
SEED Team
The Experimental High School Attached to
Beijing Normal University Team1
2015
Wuhan Britain-China School
The Experimental High School Attached
to Beijing Normal University Team 1
Nanjing Foreign Language School
Shenzhen Middle School
Hangzhou Foreign Languages School
The Experimental High School Attached
2014
to Beijing Normal University Team 2
The High School Affiliated to Renmin University
of China Team 1
The High School Affiliated to Renmin University
of China Team 2
Shanghai Foreign Language School
Shanghai High School International Division
Shanghai World Foreign Language Academy
Testimonial
I have participated in AMT for two
consecutive years. The individual round of
the competition is like a condensed version
of the AMC. I can solve the first few questions
easily, while the last few questions require
the accumulation of relevant knowledge.
Power round is a simulation of how to think
step by step in the face of unknown topics,
which is a very different from the traditional
competition. In the whole process, you
feel that you are doing a university math
project. From the conceptal learning to
the official contest, it is all associated
with our life, which is very interesting.
Student-Zitong Chen
Saint Andrew's School Florida
This competition is very challenging, and
the idea of the topic is very innovative.
Guts round not only represents individual
ability, but also strengthens teamwork
ability. Everyone needs to allocate their
own tasks to complete this round together.
The numerical estimation chanllenge
integrates some constants of mathematics
with life, which also shows that mathematics
is ubiquitous in life. All this makes us love
mathematics more and think more actively.
Student-Ziyuan Zhu
IVY Experimental High School
Unlike many other competitions in China,
AMT has novel team settings. First of all,
students' interest in mathematics learning
is increased, and secondly, students'
learning methods are well trained. For
example, it is a good exercise for students
to find problems, explore problems, and
finally solve the problem in Power round.
The competition exercised the students'
mathematical thinking logic and also
made many like-minded friends.
Teacher-Shanshan Li
Hefei Thomas School
Application Details
• Target Applicants：Grade 10 above(IGCSE and A-Level)
• Fee：980RMB covers exam, grading, math challenges
before contest, certificate, medal and trophy. （ Note:
Certificate,medal and trophy will be mailed to school)

Registration
• Online：Log in to www.seedasdan.org/en/amt-en/ to
sign up or scan the QR code down below.
• Offline：Request an application form and send it to
science@seedasdan.org to sign up for the competition.
2020 Key Dates
• 1st Aug ： Application deadline(download academic
materials and prepare online learning）
• 8th Aug: Issue Contest Instructions
• 8th-9th Aug: Power Round
• 9th-14th Aug: AMT Math Challenge
• 15th Aug: Online System Debugging
• 16th Aug: AMT Official Contest

Other International Math Contests

Hosted by ASDAN China
• Math Kangaroo(MK)
www.seedasdan.org/en/math-kangaroo/
• Harvard-MIT Math Tournament (HMMT)
www.seedasdan.org/en/hmmt-en/
• American Regions Mathematics League(ARML)
www.seedasdan.org/en/arml-en/
• Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC)
www.seedasdan.org/en/amc-en/
• Canadian Open Mathematics Challenge (COMC)
www.seedasdan.org/en/comc-en/
• Caribou Contest
www.seedasdan.org/en/caribou-en/
• Computational and Algorithmic Thinking (CAT)
www.seedasdan.org/en/cat-en/

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