Frisch is proud to have many boys’ and girls’ winning sports teams. From our back to back champion boys’ varsity baseball team to our three time yeshiva league girls’ volleyball team, there is a lot of competing and winning that occurs with Frisch athletes. There is another team at Frisch though that is not as well known but is also competing and winning all the time….The Frisch Math League Team!
The Frisch Math League is comprised of around 20+ students from all four grade levels. With plans to create our own team jersey, this group of math minded young men and women are bright, determined, and eager to show their academic prowess. The team has already had an activity filled year with more events planned for the next few months.
For those of you who don’t know, Frisch competes in two yeshiva Math bowls, one at SAR and another at Heschel. These two events are highlights of the year where students get to compete against the best and brightest math students in the greater yeshiva community. Just as many people know of the student athletes in basketball or hockey, so too do these students know of the best math minds at other schools. With awe and admiration, they relish the chance to compete head to head or mind to mind shall we say with their friends and peers in these intense all day math competitions.
The Frisch math team also takes part in the New Jersey Math League. Just this week the team took exam #3 out of six administered by the state high . A sample question from an exam last year is the following:
“Suppose a hotel has rooms numbered 1-14 and keys also numbered 1-14 BUT the room numbers and key numbers do not have to match. Instead, the keys are assigned to the rooms so that the sum of the room number and the key number is always an exact multiple of 3. How many ways can this be done ?
(The answer is 345,600)”
The five highest scores are entered into a state database and we are ranked against some of the best private and public high schools in the state. We are proud to say that we even had a 6/6 ( a perfect score) on the first exam this year from a freshman! Few students if any will score a perfect 6/6 in their entire high school careers but Frisch students have done that impressive feat repeatedly!
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| Math Team Athletes taking a New Jersey Math League Exam |
The Math Team has many future events coming up including the AMC 10 and AMC 12 exams in February and a possible shabbaton/yeshiva math competition at Yale University in April. Always eager for more opportunities to do math competitively, the team enjoys a full plate of activities.
Besides competing in various state and national competitions, the Math League also meets twice a month after school. The sessions vary between practicing for the various math competitions to listening to presentations from guest speakers. This past math team meeting Frisch faculty member Mr. Herb Grossman presented on the Binomial Theorem. It was a fascinating talk which the students loved. They have already requested that he come back no less than two more times to discuss possibly determinants and conic sections. Future presenters will include Mrs. Rhona Flaumenhaft of the Frisch math department discussing polar coordinates and the team’s own president Gabriel Dardik ‘16 who will be speaking about non-Euclidean Geometry.
The remainder of the year for the Math Team will be fun, educational and full of numbers….exactly how these athletes like it!
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