Blair's Calculus Team won the Continental Math League's national 2004-2005 Calculus League competition.
Top scorers for the team, coached by math teacher David Stein, were juniors John Silberholz and John Kim; sophomores Matt McCutchen, Brian Lawrence, Cyril Lan, Mark Harding, Ben Strauss and Jordan Turner; freshmen Holman Gao, Benjamin Lee and Timothy Peng and Takoma Park Middle School eighth-grader Aki Hogge.
The Calculus League competition consists of four meets of eight questions each. The questions, involving topics that are covered in a normal AB Calculus class, must be answered in 40 minutes. Usually, there are six multiple-choice questions and two free response questions per meet.
Sample questions involve topics like solving limits, finding derivatives of functions and finding the minimum cost of fencing off a certain area based on a cost function.
Kim, one of the top scorers on the team, said, "It's nice that we won. It's a pretty big honor."
Graphic by Elena Pinsky.
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