Math Team

The Math Team is an after-school option and is appropriate for any student from grades 10-12 with a sincere interest in solving complex and challenging math problems and competing against teams of strong mathematicians from other schools. Ninth graders may join with permission from the department.

During the 2010-2011 school year, the BB&N Math Team competed in the following leagues/competitions:

--Greater Boston Math League (GBML)
--Massachusetts Math League (MML)
--Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament (HMMT) (one in November, one in February)
--WPI Invitational Math Meet
--New England Math League (NEML)
--American Mathematics Contest (AMC-10 and AMC-12)

In 2011, the Math Team won the Small Schools Division of the GBML which resulted in an invitation to the state meet where they finished third (2 points behind the first place team).

The Math Team meets twice a week after school for one and a half hours. During these meetings, students practice problem sets similar to those given at various math competitions. The group discusses strategies and techniques to best solve these problems, and students learn math topics generally not included in the BB&N math curricula. In addition to the twice-weekly practices, an expectation is that students will attend math competitions (as space permits); these include 2 to 3 off-campus team competitions per month.

The Math Team, in combination with two sessions of Health and Fitness, fulfills a student's athletic requirement for the season. Sign-up for the After-School Math Team is by season, but it is only offered in the Fall and Winter.  Students may choose either season.

After-School Math is currently limited to 12 students per term.

For further information, please contact Chip Rollinson (chip_rollinson@bbns.org), Upper School math teacher and coach of the BB&N Math Team.