UPDATE: MHS Math League Has Successful Season

	Aidan Kaplan, left, and Michelle Yuan two high qualifying students who went on to take the American Invitational Mathematics Examination.

UPDATE: Last Wednesday, Montclair High School attended the Essex County Math League Competition where the students showed continued strength in Calculus and Advanced Mathematics, where the team won Top 3 recognition.

In addition, for the first time in school history, MHS had a student, Theo Coyne finishing number one (out of 140) in Essex County in Advanced Mathematics.Other high scoring students were Noah Webb and Nora Ellmann in Calculus and Sarah McDonald and Natan Schattner-Elmaleh in Algebra II.

Montclair High School Math League had an excellent performance during the 2011-2012 regular season, winning the Essex County Region and placing in the Top 5 of New Jersey High Schools. This was the fourth time that MHS Math League has received this prestigious recognition in six years.

Each month, MHS Math League had between 75 and 100 students sitting for a 6 question math contest providing problem-solving challenges in areas ranging from Algebra, Geometry, and PreCalculus. Top scoring students included: Aidan Kaplan, Allen Liu, Jake Stepansky, Brigid Mulroe, Henry Gifford, Jake Erichson, Axel Hellman, and Theo Coyne.

In February, 35 MHS Math League students participated in the American Mathematics Competition (AMC), a nationwide math exam which is part of a series of exams used to assemble the best and brightest math students to represent the United States in the Math Olympiad. Montclair High School had two students, Aidan Kaplan and Michelle Yuan, whose high qualifying scores on the AMC made them eligible to take the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME). The AIME is a three hour test containing only 15 questions and students are not allowed to use a calculator.

“I and the many students forming MHS Math League are extremely appreciative of the support of the Montclair community and a grant from MFEE, which continues to make our participation in these events possible,” said math teacher Dana Rubin.