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Math Team Feats Multiply!
FLEX TIME
BY KATHERINE OGDEN
FRONT Jesse Chung ’25, Ethan Yoo ’24, Hunter Wu ’23, Max Lanson ’26, Ryan Ahn ’25, Henry Sorbaro ’23, Subir Garg ’25, Vikram Sarkar ’26, Jeremy Lee ’25, and Miles Gillott ’26 BACK Jack Whitney-Epstein ’26 Ajay Bagaria ’24, William Ewald ’23, Andrew Tu ’24, Robert Ulmer ’23, Justin Guo ’26, and Michael Allwood
Math Team Feats Multiply!
FRESH OFF HISTORIC wins last spring, the Brunswick math team is hoping for a repeat — as it also reveals the depth and strength behind its growing success.
Two matches into the current season, the six members of the Brunswick A-team were top scorers in the Fairfield County Math League, placing first out of 30 public and private schools. The team won the first match of the FCML season in October, and placed one point behind Greenwich High School in the November match, enough to hold on to the top slot for the year so far.
But the problem solving goes even deeper than that: Two of the top students in the league are Brunswick students.
Andrew Tu ’24 was tied for the top scoring junior after two matches, while Vikram Sarkar ’26 was by far the top scoring freshman in the league. Sarkar has amassed 35 points after two matches, more than twice the points of the secondplace freshman; the highest possible score for each match is 18 points.
Brunswick is also entering a large number of B-team students in the FCML matches — and though B-team scores do not count toward the school’s result, these students are also posting some of the highest scores in the league.
In November, the B1-team earned a high enough score that, if Brunswick had fielded the B1-team rather than the A-team, it would have placed second in the county.
Similarly, the Brunswick B2-team of five students would have placed 11th among the county’s 30 A-teams of six students each.
“It’s really pretty amazing,” said math team coach Michael Allwood. “The quality and depth is growing incredibly.”
FCML matches are held on the first Wednesday of the month; the six-match season finishes in March. Competition sees students tackle six separate rounds of math problems, starting with arithmetic and followed by algebra, geometry, and trigonometry.
Last spring, Brunswick earned the top slot in the FCML competition, unseating perennial winner Greenwich High School for the first time in many years.
It was Brunswick’s first such win since 2004.
Then, at the Connecticut State Association of Math Leagues annual match last April, Brunswick took first in the Small Schools Division.
It’s all part of the growing strength of the Brunswick math program, which this year is offering a class in Real Analysis. According to Allwood, it’s “by far the hardest course we’ve ever offered at Brunswick.”
“The team has become more and more selective,” Allwood said. “The competition for the A-team is very, very, strong.”
