Frazer School wins national Mu Alpha Theta championship

Press release from the Frazer School

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Frazer School math team won the national championship at the Mu Alpha Theta National Convention in Orlando this week, scoring 7,283 points versus 2nd-place American Heritage Broward’s 7,177 points.

The Frazer School took 56 kids to compete at the Mu Alpha Theta National Convention, winning two of the four divisions (Theta and Statistics) and placing second in the Alpha and Mu divisions. The Theta division consists of Algebra 2 and Geometry, Alpha is Pre-Calculus, and Mu is Calculus. 

Mu Alpha Theta, the National High School and Two-Year College Mathematics Honor Society, is an organization whose purpose is the promotion of scholarship in, and enjoyment and understanding of, mathematics among high school and two-year college students.

Each year the convention brings together hundreds of teachers and students from across the country for five days of math-related events.

The National Convention, held in Orlando this year, rotates among our chapters and has been held in locations all over the country, including Honolulu, Washington D.C., Seattle, Dallas, and Boston.

Frazer School won 255 trophies

Along the way, Frazer team members picked up 255 total trophies. 

First-place trophies:

Theta

• Division championship – Tony Lai, Maxwell Xu, Yifan Song, and Connor Guthrie
• Maxwell Xu – Theta Applications
• Ajay Sawant – Equations and inequalities
• Yifan Song – Conics
• Lily Zhou – Logarithms and exponents
• Fei Wang – ciphering
• Tony Lai – mental math; functions
• Maggie Gao – Theta chalk talk

Alpha

• Jonathan Lin – Matrices and Vectors
• Aadya Guduru – Alpha Chalk talk
• Xi Chen – Analytic Geometry

Mu

• Andrew Xing – Mu Applications; Integration Bee
• Katie He – Area and Volume; Speed Math
• Thomas Wu – Limits and Derivatives
• Xuyao Zhang – Mu Chalk Talk
• Anish Patel – Probability and Statistics

Other

• Statistics division – Mark Shiau, Eileen Lai, Jaivik Patel, and Caleb Wang
• Warren Craft – Statistics unplugged
• Andrew Xing – Mystery test
• Eileen Lai – Statistics Ciphering
• Katie He – Discrete math

Team events

• Relay – Antony Lai, Xi Chen, and Katie He
• Hustle – Andrew Xing, Michael Wei, George Paret, and Jonathan Lin
• Interschool

Math Coach Ziwei Lu said it was a real team effort, with more kids contributing points toward victory than normal.

Principal Fayiga, who is also a sponsor of the math team, said that the kids worked very hard this summer to prepare for the championship. They were involved with two math camps, one in which they taught younger kids wanting to learn competitive math from 8:00 a.m. to noon every day. The other camp, from 12:30 to 5:00 p.m. every day, was their own preparation for Nationals. Fayiga said, “I am very proud of them and their tremendous work ethic that prepared them for this championship.”

The Frazer School kids will take a few weeks off and start school on Monday, August 4.