Bob Jones Math Team has phenomenal season
Members of Bob Jones Math Team show their awards at University of Alabama competition. CONTRIBUTED
MADISON – Always a winning group, the Math Team at Bob Jones has accomplished an especially stellar record for the 2015-2016 school year.
“These accomplishments by the math team are representative of a great year but seem to be repeated year after year,” Bob Jones Principal Sylvia Lambert said. “Kimberly Cox is a talented educator and an excellent math team mentor/instructor.”
In National Team Awards, Bob Jones ranked sixth nationally in Fall Start-up Event, Team Scramble and Ciphering Time Trials and third in Four by Four. With Mathfax, they ranked fourth in advanced math and second in geometry.
In State Team Awards, Bob Jones is first-place champion overall and first in ciphering and algebra 2/trigonometry written, along with third in comprehensive written. The Patriots also grabbed first place at the University of Alabama and Calhoun Community College.
In high school meets, Bob Jones ranked second for geometry and third in comprehensive at Vestavia Hills; algebra and comprehensive, second, Hoover; and first in algebra 2 and second in comprehensive, Grissom.
In individual awards, Fall Startup saw Joey Li in first; Tony Tian, 12th; Shantanu Kadam, 14th; Winston Van, 16th; Aditi Limaye, 20th; David Li, 23rd; Alan Grissom, 24th.
In Four by Four competition, Li, Van, Emily Jeung and Mathew Ganatra were first nationally in Scissors Division. In Ciphering Time Trials, Li was 1st; Van, 16th; Kadam, 12th; Grissom, 18th; and Limaye, 4th.
In UA individual honors, Limaye was first; Anthony Zhu, second; Tyler Tolbert, third; Kadam and Warren He, tie for fourth; Amelia Goldston and Ada van der Zijp, tie for seventh; and Sean Lee, 13th.
At Calhoun, individually Li was first and Van second. At Vestavia, Van was second; David Li, fourth; Victoria Lee, sixth; Cheng Zhou, seventh; and Kate Han, ninth. In Hoover, Van was fourth; Limaye, seventh; Tian, 14th; for algebra 2, David Li was seventh, Zhou at 10th and Byers, 13th.
For State Written, district individual awards went to Joey Li, first; Limaye, second and van der Zijp-Tan, fifth in comprehensive. For algebra II, David Li was first, Corey Tolbert, third; Zhou, fourth; and Victoria Lee, fifth.
AIME qualifiers were Grissom, David Li, Joey Li, Limaye, Van and Tolbert.
