On Tuesday, January 10, a group of Newton South HS students organized the School MathCounts Competition at Oak Hill Middle School. This annual competition introduces middle-school students to mathematics competitions in a friendly and low-key way. The competition was well attended, with lots of enthusiasm among participants and organizers.

The NSHS students ran the competition were all alumni of both MathCounts and Oak Hill. They did live grading and presented certificates and small prizes to the top scorers: Ryder, Jason, Christian, Joshua, Hailey, Natalie, Claire, Jayden, Kenneth, Adi, Kinaan, and Deesha.

Many of these high-school students — Elena, Steven, Isaac, Alexander, Jared, Noah and Dhruv –have been giving back to their community by teaching extracurricular math at Oak Hill since their freshman year.

This year the Chapter MathCounts competitions are held in-person for the first time since 2020. On February 4, twelve members of the Oak Hill Mathcounts Club will participate in the MetroNorth chapter competition. Last year, the Oak Hill team placed third in the MetroNorth competition and sixth in the statewide MathCounts competition.