January 2008

The math team will be BUSY this winter.

"We have three NEML contests, the American Mathematics Competitions, and a few of us will go up to Cambridge for the Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament (HMMT)," explained Math Team Advisor Ted Heavenrich. The Cambridge event takes place the last Saturday in February.

RESULTS: After 3 contests in the NEML (halfway through the season) the Taft team is in fourth place in New England. Usually 25 to 35 Taft students come out to compete for a given contest.

"The only private school ahead of us is Phillips Andover," says Ted.

More significantly, the same contests are given in 47 out of the 50 states in the U.S., and only 8 schools in the country have done better than Taft.

After congratulating his team, he advised them: "Now your task is to stay focused and maintain your dominating performance."

The next NEML takes place on January 15 in Laube Auditorium.

photo by Yee-Fun Yin