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Payton Math Team Update
Payton’s math team earned it’s 3rd consecutive city championship Saturday at Lane
Tech.
The city of Chicago Math League has four areas of team competition.
Payton placed 1st in Geometry, Algebra 2, and Pre-Calculus, and 2nd in Algebra 1.
Several Payton students also earned individual awards:
Algebra 1 Accelerated
1st Laura Scheff
4th Matt Schmookler
7th Evander Ramos
Geometry Accelerated
2nd Matt Waechter
3rd Jane Huang
4th Graham Winn-Lee
7th David Jacobson
Algebra
2 Accelerated
1st Adam Fishman
4th Ina Jazic 6th Danielle Bennon
7th Sam Laubach
Pre-Calculus Accelerated
1st Daping Weng
2nd Alex Zorn
4th Vladimir Sotirov
The McCarthy-Murzyn Award is given to the top student in each category with the
highest cumulative score over the course of the five city meets in the year.
This year's winners:
Geometry Accelerated
Matt Waechter
Algebra 2 Accelerated
Adam Fishman
Pre-Calculus Accelerated
Daping Weng
For the first time Payton’s math team earned first place in
the Illinois Math League. Cumulatively over six meets, Payton had the highest
cumulative score out of 88 schools.
Several Payton students ranked highly in Illinois:
1st Alex Zorn
4th Matt Waechter, Daping Weng
10th Vladimir Sotirov
11th Timothy Berry
15th Adam Fishman, Matt Schmookler
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