Nazareth Academy Student Qualifies for American Invitational Mathematics Examination

Submitted by Nazareth Academy.

Nazareth Academy congratulates international student and current Nazareth junior, Jiacheng “Frank” Li, for participating in the 33rd annual American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME) on Wednesday, March 25, 2015.

Frank qualified for the AIME by scoring 100 or more out of a possible 150 (approximately the top 5%) on the American Mathematics Contest 12.

This contest was established in 1973 as an intermediate step between the high school (AMC 10 and AMC 12) contests and the U. S. A. Mathematical Olympiad (USA(J)MO). The AIME is a 15 question, 3 hour examination in which each answer is an integer number from 0 to 999, students are very unlikely to obtain the correct answer by guessing. The questions on the AIME cover high school mathematics, and are much more difficult than those on the AMC 10 and AMC 12. All problems on the AIME can be solved by pre-calculus methods. The use of calculators is not allowed. This contest leads to the USA(J)MO, MOSP (Mathematical Olympiad Summer Program) and the selection of the USA team sent to the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), the premier international high school level problem solving contest. This year the IMO will be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, July 4–16, 2015.

Nazareth Academy, a Catholic, coeducational, college preparatory high school serving families from 55 communities and 115 grade schools in Chicago and the western suburbs, established in 1900 and sponsored by the Congregation of St. Joseph, values scholarship, service, spirit, and unity.

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