Lehigh Valley American Regions Math League team

National champions in 2005 and 2009. Second in 2007. Third in 2006.

The American Regions Math League is a national high school mathematics team contest that has been taking place each year since 1976. It is held at Penn State, Georgia, Iowa, and Las Vegas. Here is a brief description of the contest.

Information for prospective members of the 2010 LV ARML team.

In the contest held May 30, 2009, there were 130 teams, including four Lehigh Valley teams, Fire, Ice, Lightning, and Thunder. The Fire team came in first place, winning the national championship for the second time in five years! The Ice team was 3rd in Division B, and 32nd overall. 2009 results.

On November 21, 2009, an 8-person Lehigh Valley Fire team won the Princeton University Math Contest in a highly competitive field of 70 teams.

In the contest held June 4, 2005, there were 95 teams, including two Lehigh Valley teams, the Fire and the Ice. The Fire team came in first place, winning the national championship! Here is a list of winning teams during the 34 years of the contest. Results of 2005 contest in Division A and Division B.

In the contest held June 2, 2007, there were 116 teams, including four Lehigh Valley teams, Fire, Ice, Lightning, and Thunder. The Fire team came in second place. See results in Excel format. Toggle at bottom between Divisions A and B. For pdf format (slightly more compact), see Division A and Division B.

In the contest held June 3, 2006, we had three teams, the Fire, the Ice, and the Lightning. The Fire team finished third out of 113 teams. Results. (A tab at the bottom of that page toggles between Divisions A and B.)

Lehigh Valley Fire has the highest total scores during the past five and six years.

The members of the 2009 Lehigh Valley teams were as follows:

Contact Don Davis for more information about the LV ARML teams.

Interactive map showing locations of schools of LV team members.

Photos from 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009.

Articles about Lehigh Valley ARML teams

Main ARML website. The problems and solutions for the 2009 contest are available there.

The team is sponsored by Paul Martino of AggregateKnowledge, Google, Keystone Consulting Engineers, and Lehigh University. We hope to obtain additional sponsorship. For a gift of at least $500, a corporation can make a valuable contribution benefiting some of the top high school math students in the country, and also get your name on this website and our t-shirt (for a $1000 gift). Contact Don Davis if you might consider doing this.

Don Davis (dmd1@lehigh.edu) formed the Lehigh Valley ARML team in 1993 and has coached it for 17 years. Since 2003, he has been assisted by Ken Monks (monks@scranton.edu). A team consists of 15 individuals. We had four teams in 2007-2009, three teams in 2006, two in 2005, and one in the years prior to 2005. Team members are selected primarily on performance on various math contests, especially the Lehigh University High School Math Contest.

A list of all participants on past teams. This includes the colleges they attended. Most common colleges are: Penn State (mostly Schreyer Honors College) (19), MIT (17), Harvard (10), Princeton (10), Carnegie-Mellon (10), Cornell (6), Lehigh (6), Penn (6). High schools (including feeder middle schools) providing most students to LV ARML teams are Emmaus (82), Liberty (46), Freedom (30), Moravian (24), Parkland (22), Henderson (20), Upper Dublin (14), Voorhees (13), Unionville (12), Radnor (12), Central Catholic (10), Hazleton (10), Conestoga (10)

Our finishing position each year.

Awards won by Lehigh Valley team at ARML:

Our top performers on overall individual portions have been as follows. To equalize, I gave .8 for each 2009 answer since there were 10 problems instead of 8. Years remaining are included at end, if relevant.