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Student Scores Perfect Score on Prestigious Math Exam
New Hampton School math students enjoyed unprecedented success in the recent American Invitational Math Examination, and one student earned a perfect score. Boe Vachiraprasith ’11, a senior student from Thailand who will attend Brown University, answered every question on the exam correctly.
Boe, who is a Royal Thai Scholar, joins a select group of students in the last decade who have scored a perfect score on the AIME. Between 2001 and 2009, there were between three and nine perfect scores on the AIME annually.
"I was pretty surprised that I got a perfect score," says Vachiraprasith, who is thinking about becoming a math professor. "I was pretty close in some of the practice tests, but I never got a perfect score."
Nearly 200,000 students take the AMC-10 and AMC-12 and from these examinations, approxiametely10,000 students are are invited to take the AIME.
Fellow New Hampton students Justin Suh '12 and Seung Wook Lee '12, both juniors, were also invited with Boe to participate in the USA Mathematical Olympiad on April 27 and 28.
"Boe is in a very select group of high school math students," says New Hampton Math Department Chair Justin Freeman, who says his student also scored in the top 100 at the Harvard MIT Math Tournament. "It is hard to say just how good he is."
Invitations to the USAMO and USAJMO (similar but for 9th and 10th graders only) go out to only 500 students in the USA and Canada.The last time a student from a New Hampshire school other than Phillips Exeter qualified was in 2008. On each of the two days of the exam, the students will have four and a half hours to solve three problems (for a total of 9 hours and 6 problems). All solutions require complete proofs.
Freeman, a cross country skiing champion who competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics, teaches math and physics while balancing department head responsibilities with mountain biking team coaching duties. He has dedicated himself to seeking out opportunities for New Hampton's math students to challenge themselves in a competitive atmosphere.
"I was very excited just to see so many students willing to give up their free time to enter a math contest," Freeman says. "We have some extremely bright and talented students at New Hampton School. ...I think that this success could really catalyze more interest in mathematics competition next year and I suspect that we will have more successes in the future."
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Boe, who is a Royal Thai Scholar, joins a select group of students in the last decade who have scored a perfect score on the AIME. Between 2001 and 2009, there were between three and nine perfect scores on the AIME annually.
"I was pretty surprised that I got a perfect score," says Vachiraprasith, who is thinking about becoming a math professor. "I was pretty close in some of the practice tests, but I never got a perfect score."
Nearly 200,000 students take the AMC-10 and AMC-12 and from these examinations, approxiametely10,000 students are are invited to take the AIME.
Fellow New Hampton students Justin Suh '12 and Seung Wook Lee '12, both juniors, were also invited with Boe to participate in the USA Mathematical Olympiad on April 27 and 28.
"Boe is in a very select group of high school math students," says New Hampton Math Department Chair Justin Freeman, who says his student also scored in the top 100 at the Harvard MIT Math Tournament. "It is hard to say just how good he is."
Invitations to the USAMO and USAJMO (similar but for 9th and 10th graders only) go out to only 500 students in the USA and Canada.The last time a student from a New Hampshire school other than Phillips Exeter qualified was in 2008. On each of the two days of the exam, the students will have four and a half hours to solve three problems (for a total of 9 hours and 6 problems). All solutions require complete proofs.
Freeman, a cross country skiing champion who competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics, teaches math and physics while balancing department head responsibilities with mountain biking team coaching duties. He has dedicated himself to seeking out opportunities for New Hampton's math students to challenge themselves in a competitive atmosphere.
"I was very excited just to see so many students willing to give up their free time to enter a math contest," Freeman says. "We have some extremely bright and talented students at New Hampton School. ...I think that this success could really catalyze more interest in mathematics competition next year and I suspect that we will have more successes in the future."
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