Math Teams in Lexington Public Schools (Massachusetts)

Math Teams in Lexington Public Schools (Massachusetts)

The various math teams of the Lexington Public Schools system in Lexington, Massachusetts are renowned for their individual and team-wise successes in many events and competitions. The three major math teams in the Lexington Public Schools system are those at Lexington High School, William Diamond Middle School, and Jonas Clarke Middle School.

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Middle school math teams

Diamond and Clarke have math teams that are among the top in the region and in the country.

The coach of Diamond's team was Evagrio Mosca, who held that position until the end of the 2004-05 school year, at which point he moved on to take a position in the Belmont Public Schools system (he has since left that position). He was the coach of the 1999 Massachusetts Mathcounts team (which also included two Diamond students), which went on to win the national competition. Since the 2005-06 school year, Diamond's coach has been Kent Findell, the former coach at Winchester-McCall. Findell led Massachusetts' Mathcounts team in 2004 (which also included two Diamond students).

Once a teacher in the Exeter public schools in New Hampshire, Josh Frost became a math teacher and math team coach at Clarke, and under his leadership, Clarke has won the IMLEM in 2006-07 through 2008-09. (Diamond had been the league champions each of the prior nine years.) For the years that he has been at Clarke, Frost has coached the MATHCOUNTS state team to attend nationals multiple times, and these teams have included students from both Clarke and Diamond.

Mathcounts

Both schools have had good successes in Mathcounts competitions as well. Many students from Diamond and Clarke have reached MATHCOUNTS Nationals, and the last team from Massachusetts to be national champions (this was in 1999) included Diamond's coach and two students from Diamond.[1]

New England Mathematics League (NEML)

Diamond and Clarke both participate in middle school NEML competitions, and both schools have performed remarkably over the years.[2]

Intermediate Math League of Eastern Massachusetts (IMLEM)

Intermediate Math League of Eastern Massachusetts (IMLEM) is the major math league in the region. Clarke and Diamond have had superior success in the league, as the two schools account for each of the last 13 IMLEM championships between 1997-98 and 2009-10. Diamond had won the league nine straight years (1997-98 through 2005-06) before Clarke won the league the last four (2006-07 through 2009-10).[3]

High school competitions

In addition, a few students from Diamond and Clarke take a few of the individual high school competitions held by Lexington High School, mostly participating in the AMC, high school NEML contests, and the MAML-organized MMO (although no students not in high school are eligible to take the MMO Level Two exam).

Lexington High School math team

Although fierce competitive rivals at the middle school level, many math team participants from Diamond and Clarke also participate at the high school, and that has garnered success for the high school as well.

The current coach of the Lexington High School math team is Albert Roos, who took the position when the former longtime coach, Saleh Rahman, retired after the 2006-07 school year.

WPI Invitational Math Meet

The WPI Invitational Math Meet, which has been held 22 times through 2009-10, has been won by Lexington High School 21 times, from 1988-1994 and from 1996-2010.[4]

American Mathematics Competitions (AMC)

Lexington High School has generally done well in the American Mathematics Competitions, making the school honor roll for the AMC 12 in both 2007 and 2008.[5][6][7] This has also translated up the AMC ladder, as Lexington High School has produced at least three USAMO qualifiers in every year since 2000, including seven in 2006 (a recent school record), four in 2007 (one additional student from Clarke qualified), and five in 2008.[8]

In 2009, 5 students from Lexington High School, as well as 2 from Clarke, qualified for the USAMO.[9] In 2010, with the split of the USAMO format into the USAMO and the new USA Junior Math Olympiad (USAJMO), Lexington had 5 USAMO qualifiers (one was from Clarke), and 5 USAJMO qualifiers.[10][11] From 2006-2011, Lexington had a total of 34 USAMO qualifiers, including 4 middle schoolers. In the two years of USAJMO's existence, Lexington had 9 total qualifiers, including 2 middle schoolers. Since 1987, there were 76 USAMO qualifiers from Lexington High School, enough for being ranked 7th in the nation.

Lexington High School's Math Department has received national merit through the AMC, as the Sliffe Award has been won by 8 Lexington High School teachers (actually, 2 teach at Diamond, and 1 at Clarke, and all but the one at Clarke are listed under Lexington High School) a total of 11 times. Lexington High School also has the most two-time winners (3 teachers; no teacher can win it more than twice).[12][13] Indian Woods Middle School, Shawnee Mission, KS (10) and Frost Middle School, Fairfax, VA (11) are the only other schools to have teachers win the award 10 or more times.

Harvard–MIT Mathematics Tournament (HMMT)

Lexington High School's math team has also sent teams to HMMT, where in 2008, Lexington High School's top team (known as "Lexington Alpha" that year) finished fifth in the sweepstakes. In past years, Lexington High School also has had a few students finish in the top ten in certain individual categories.[14] The high school has also won second place overall at each of the first two Harvard-MIT November Tournaments (HMNT), held in 2008-09 and 2009-10.

MML, GBML, MAML, and NEAML

Lexington High School also sends teams to Massachusetts Mathematics League (MML) and Greater Boston Mathematics League (GBML) meets, through which it has had superior success in qualifying for and winning the MAML (Massachusetts Association of Math Leagues) State Meet and the NEAML (New England Association of Math Leagues) New England Meet. The team last won the State Meet in 2009-10, and the New England Meet in 2007-08, and since 2000, the team has finished worse than second at only one of these meets (it finished third in the 2004-05 New England Meet).[15][16]

Lexington High School participates in the individual MAML-organized Massachusetts Mathematics Olympiad (MMO), with many semifinalists and finalists in the MMO Level One exam. Also, Lexington has had many students finish in the top 20 of the MMO Level Two exam, including 4 in 2008, 3 in 2007, 5 in 2006, and 3 in 2005.[17]

New England Mathematics League (NEML)

Lexington High School participates in the high school Math League contests, usually finishing in the top five in New England each year.[18]

Mandelbrot Competition

Lexington High School competed in the Mandelbrot Competition for the first time in 2009-10.[19]

Competitors

Most of Lexington High School's nationwide competition has come primarily from magnet schools such as Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST), the Academy for the Advancement of Science and Technology (AAST), and Phillips Exeter Academy, whose student populations consists of applicants from wider districts of people. It is thus to Lexington High School's math team's credit that it can accomplish so much as a public high school whose student population does not come from such a wide area.

See also

References

  1. ^ "mathcounts". http://diamond.lexingtonma.org/mathteam/mathcounts99.html. 
  2. ^ "Welcome to the Math League". http://www.mathleague.com/. 
  3. ^ "IMLEM Math League". http://www.imlem.org/. 
  4. ^ "WPI Invitational Math Meet Statistics". http://www.wocomal.org/statistics/wpi/index.html. 
  5. ^ "AMC 10". http://www.unl.edu/amc/e-exams/e5-amc10/archive10.shtml. 
  6. ^ "AMC 12". http://www.unl.edu/amc/e-exams/e6-amc12/archive12.shtml. 
  7. ^ "AIME Archive". http://www.unl.edu/amc/e-exams/e7-aime/archiveaime.shtml. 
  8. ^ "USAMO Archives". http://www.unl.edu/amc/e-exams/e8-usamo/archiveusamo.shtml. Retrieved 2008-05-11. 
  9. ^ "2009 USAMO Qualifiers". http://amc.maa.org/e-exams/e8-usamo/e8-1-usamoarchive/2009-ua/09-Qual_list.pdf. 
  10. ^ "2010 USAMO Qualifiers". http://amc.maa.org/e-exams/e8-usamo/e8-1-usamoarchive/2010-ua/10-Qual_list.pdf. 
  11. ^ "2010 USAJMO Qualifiers". http://amc.maa.org/e-exams/e8-usamo/e8-1-usamoarchive/2010-ua/10-JMO-Qual_list.pdf. 
  12. ^ "AMC Sliffe Alumni List - Massachusetts". http://www.unl.edu/amc/f-miscellaneous/f4-sliffe/Alumni/Massachusetts.shtml. 
  13. ^ "Sliffe Awards High School Guidelines". http://www.unl.edu/amc/f-miscellaneous/f4-sliffe/12slifferules.shtml. 
  14. ^ "HMMT: Archive". http://web.mit.edu/hmmt/www/datafiles/results/. 
  15. ^ "MAML All-Time Statistics". http://www.wocomal.org/statistics/maml/alltime/team/championshipsbyyear.html. 
  16. ^ "NEAML All-Time Statistics". http://www.wocomal.org/statistics/neaml/alltime/team/championshipsbyyear.html. 
  17. ^ "Massachusetts Mathematics Olympiad Statistics". http://www.wocomal.org/statistics/olympiad/index.html. 
  18. ^ "Math League Contest Results". http://www.mathleague.com/reports/leagues.htm. 
  19. ^ "The Mandelbrot Competition". http://web.mandelbrot.org/. 

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