Pictured from the Student Math League competition at Pellissippi State are, from left, Mathematics faculty member Bob Stern; students Sadril Mohammad, Hassie Stooksbury, Stanley Bryant, Alexandra Rajic, Brittany Fortenberry, and Niloo Ranjan; and Daryl Thomas and Bobby Jackson, also Math faculty members at the college. Jackson coordinated the competition.
Math students at Pellissippi State Community College went head to head with students from other two-year institutions from the Southeast in two rounds of the 2010-2011 Student Math League competition. The competition is sponsored by the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges.
Pellissippi State was one of only two community colleges in Tennessee to participate. A total of 132 of the school’s students took part in at least of the two rounds of competition—the round-one AMATYC multiple-choice test in the fall and the round-two test in the spring—and final scores were released last week. Twenty-nine colleges from the Southeast competed, and Pellissippi State came out in 14th position.
“We submit our five highest test scores from students who have not yet earned a two-year or higher degree. That’s our team score,” said Bobby Jackson, associate professor of Mathematics and coordinator of the competition.