The Frazer School in Gainesville recently announced that its fifth-grade team placed first out of 394 schools across the U.S., Canada and Australia at the annual Math League competition in April.
According to a press release, “Math League is the largest network of local and state math competitions at the elementary, middle and high school levels in the U.S. and abroad.” Students were given minutes to solve 30 math problems.
The fifth-grade students who earned top scores for The Frazer School included Jayden Wu, who got a perfect score of 30. Right behind Wu were Alice Ding, Maxwell Ji, Long Ma and Henry Tang, who all earned scores of 29.
In addition, Eileen Shin, Yiqi Ethan Song, Adam Vora, Austin Yang and Marty Yu each scored 28.
The Frazer School’s fourth-grade team also fared well in the competition, ranking fifth out of 316 schools, according to the release. Top-scoring students included Miriel Johnson and Riley Ding, with scores of 28, and Kayla Chen, Davi Pinto, Bert Zhang, and Andrew Zhou, who all received scores of 27.
The release states that Math League offers an annual Summer Math Camp at The College of New Jersey in July. A total of 23 fourth and fifth-grade students from The Frazer School have qualified for this camp.
“Working with these talented math students at [The] Frazer [School] has been the highlight of my career teaching gifted students for more than 26 years,” said Pauline Watson, a math teacher at The Frazer School, in the release. “Their dedication and motivation is commendable.”
The Frazer School also recognized two more of its budding mathematicians who ranked highly in another competition – Math Kangaroo. First grader Micah Mao placed second in the state, while second grader Arielle Duan finished fourth in the state.
