Lehigh Valley American Regions Math League team

National champions in 2005, 2009, 2010, 2011. 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 2012 LV ARML team.

In the contest held June 4, 2011, there were 133 teams, including five Lehigh Valley teams, Fire, Ice, Lightning, Thunder, and Storm. The Fire team came in first place, winning the national championship for the third year in a row, and fourth time in seven years. The Ice team finished 22nd, their best finish ever, and the Lightning team finished fourth in Division B, which means that they will be moved to Division A (which consists of the elite teams) for the next three years. Results

In the contest held June 5, 2010, there were 122 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 year in a row, and third time in six years. 2010 results

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, and on November 20, 2010, another 8-person Lehigh Valley Fire team repeated as champions of the Princeton University Math Contest, again topping a very 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! 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.)

Here is a list of winning teams during the 36 years of the contest. Teams winning three or more times are New York City (12), Lehigh Valley (4), Thomas Jefferson (4), San Francisco Bay (3), and Chicago (3).

The members of the 2011 Lehigh Valley teams were as follows:

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

Photos from 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011.

Articles about Lehigh Valley ARML teams

Main ARML website. The results, problems and solutions for the 2011 contest are available there.

The team is sponsored by Paul Martino of AggregateKnowledge, Google, and Lehigh University, including the math department, the president's office, and the Integrated Business and Engineering Program. 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 19 years. Since 2003, he has been assisted by Ken Monks (monks@scranton.edu). A team consists of 15 individuals. We had five teams in 2011, four teams in 2007-2010, 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) (21), MIT (21), Princeton (13), Harvard (12), Carnegie-Mellon (12), Penn (9), Lehigh (9). High schools (including feeder middle schools) providing most students to LV ARML teams are Emmaus (88), Liberty (52), Freedom (37), Parkland (35), Moravian (25), Henderson (21), Upper Dublin (21), Radnor (17), Unionville (17), Conestoga (17), Pennsbury (16), Hazleton (14), Southern Lehigh (13), Voorhees (13), Central Catholic (11), North Penn (11), Wissahickon (10).

Our finishing position each year.

Awards won by Lehigh Valley team at ARML:

Our top performers on overall individual portions have been as below. To equalize, I gave .8 for each 2009, 2010, and 2011 answer since there were 10 problems instead of 8. Years remaining are included at end, if relevant. Possibly more interesting is a spreadsheet listing the 40 people who in at least three years on our team answered at least half their individual questions correctly.