Bob Jones Math Team places seventh in national contest

MADISON – Students in the math team at Bob Jones High School placed seventh in the United States in the 2013 Team Scramble.

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National Assessment & Testing coordinates this national mathematics contest. More than 100 schools entered the competition.

“I am so proud of Kimberly Cox and the math team,” Bob Jones Principal Robby Parker said. “They work hard every day preparing both their math skills and competition skills.”

Math team members are Jasmine Atassi, Demola Ayokanmbi, Megan Carter, Claudia Chu, Kaitlyn Cox, Ashley Dong, Arvind Draffen, Kevin Duan, Nathan Fox, Crystal Ganatra, Mathew Ganatra, Amelia Goldston, Carsten Grove, Anirudh Gupta, Byron He, Leah Hong, Kensei Kikuchi, Katie Kovach, Yuri Kwon, Chan Lee, Chris Lee, Daniel H. Li, Joey Li, Aditya Mathur, Olivia McCoy, Armon Mobasher, Dan Nguyen, Rikesh Patel, Savvina Prapiadou, R.J. Sieja, Ethan Smyth, Tina Tian, Tyler Tolbert, Victoria Van, Winston Van, Ada Vander Zijp-Tan, Anthony Zhu.

Cox coaches the math team and teaches the honor course in pre-calculus at Bob Jones. She has served as a math team coach since 2002.

For the Team Scramble, each Bob Jones student worked together for 30 minutes on a 100-question test that had problems and exercises ranging from arithmetic to calculus. “We were the highest scoring school in the state of Alabama,” Cox said.

Bob Jones’ cumulative score was 67. Other Alabama schools in the top 25 were Hoover High School in ninth place scoring 63 and Grissom High School with a score of 59 in twelfth place.

National Assessment & Testing is based in Seattle, Wash. For more information, visit natassessment.com.