American Heritage School Captures National Championship In Math Competition
PLANTATION, Fla., Nov. 15, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- American Heritage School in Plantation, Florida, earned 1st place at the 2017 National Mu Alpha Theta Math Competition. American Heritage has created an environment in its classrooms where liking math and doing well in math is respected and appreciated. This, in a world where the United States ranks 35th in math skills, according to Business Insider, the importance of math is still being emphasized in some schools in our country.
The AHS Math team is coached by Dr. Radleigh Santos, an alumnus of the school and an MIT graduate. "We are a place where the top math students know they can go to learn subjects – such as multivariable calculus – not usually taught in a high school setting, and still be the most successful students on a perpetually 1st place winning team," Dr. Santos says.
The math competition team attends classes for at least two hours three days a week after school and on Saturdays. They learn the competition curriculum and other advanced topics at a fast pace in order to be fully prepared by the first competition in January.
"Throughout most of my life, I've been the only one who cares about math," says junior Connor Gordon, who placed first twice in the geometry exams at the national competition. "But when I came to American Heritage, I met so many other students who feel the same way I do about math, so I can talk to them about it, and we help each other with things we don't understand."
According to Dr. Santos, math is very important in our lives because it is the science that underlies all the other things people do. "Even seemingly disparate topics like law and writing rely on logic, which is a mathematical concept." Students who graduate from the AHS math program have gone on to PhD programs in mathematics at many of the top universities in the country.
About American Heritage School
American Heritage School (www.ahschool.com) is the #1 private school in the U.S. for the highest number of National Merit Scholars, math competition, and Model U.N. American Heritage is an independent, non-sectarian, co-educational, college preparatory school in South Florida, serving PK3 - 12th grades.
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