Math Team

RE's math team offers students the opportunity to explore mathematics beyond the classroom. Members are prepared to participate in math competitions throughout the state and beyond, and they work in a team-oriented environment that stimulates mathematical curiosity and fosters a sense of community.

Team News

MS math team finishes tied for third in the nation
6/1/2022
Ransom Everglades' middle school math team tied for third in the nation in the Noetic Learning Math Contest Spring 2022 in its category, as four students – Robert Li '26, Daniel Li '28, Joshie Khohayting '28 and Alex Tevelow '28 – finished among the top eight performers in Florida and qualified for the National Honor Roll. Robert Li, Daniel Li and Khohayting were also among only three students in Florida to earn perfect scores on the examination.
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RE's math team wins Blue Ribbon Award at states
4/14/2022
Ransom Everglades' math team scored the Blue Ribbon Award at the Florida math state championships, a trophy bestowed on the highest-scoring small school at the April 8-9 event in Orlando. Under the direction of coach Karen Key, RE's team of 12 – including nine freshmen and sophomores – finished second overall in the trivia competition and scored a number of top 10 finishes at the 2022 Florida Association of Mu Alpha Theta State Convention.
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MS mathletes top 10 in state
3/17/2022
The middle school math team finished 10th in the state in the 2022 Florida State Mathcounts Competition on March 16 in Jacksonville, standing out among more than 100 middle school teams from around the state. Daniel Li ’28, Robert Li ’26, Aarav Jindal ’26, Gabe Karsenti ’26, Joshie Khohayting ’28 and Alex Tevelow ’28 contributed to the finish under coach and middle school math coordinator Jessica Merrick.
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Calculus team second in regional event
2/15/2022
RE's calculus team – Alex Van Lidth '22, Nikhil Kumar '22, Maya Shaked '24 and Sabrina Shipley '22 – finished second in a regional math competition in Naples on February 12, led by Van Lidth's fifth-place individual finish among more than 100 competitors from the east and west coasts of Florida. Ransom Everglades' pre-calculus team scored fifth place as the Raiders claimed fifth overall at the Golden Gate Region 5 February Regional 2022.
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Math team scores top finishes
2/1/2022
In its first competition of the 2021-22 season, RE's math team scored three top-five team finishes as one senior – Alex Van Lidth '22 – claimed a ninth place in the calculus individual competition at the FAU-Davie Campus Regional on January 29.

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Middle schoolers win math honors
1/13/2022
Joshie Khohayting '28 won a National Honor Roll medal for scoring in the top 10 percent on a national math exam known as the Noetic Math Contest; some 23,000 middle schoolers took part in the competition. Alex Tevelow '28 earned an honorable mention in the contest. The students participate in math team under the direction of faculty member Jessica Merrick.
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Eighth grader earns a perfect score on national math test
5/24/2021
Solon Sun '25 was one of only 1,165 eighth-grade students across the nation to earn a perfect score on the Noetic Learning Math Contest Spring 2021. His score placed him in roughly the top 3.25 percent, earning him a place on the National Honor Roll along with Robert Li '26, whose score placed him in the top eight percent of seventh-grade students who took the exam. The Noetic Learning event is a semiannual problem-solving contest for elementary and middle school students. The students participate in the middle school math team under the direction of faculty member Ginny Onorati.
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Freshman wins national math recognition
5/5/2020
Sofia Dimitra Paraoulaki de Miranda '23 finished among the top 149 female students across the nation on the tenth-grade American Mathematics Competition exam, earning an inaugural Maryam Mirzakhani AMC 10 Award from the Mathematical Association of America, the organization announced in March. She took the exam under upper school math team coach Karen Key.
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RE students excel on national math test
3/2/2020
Four RE math students scored in the top one percent in the nation on American Math Competitions exams to advance in a prestigious national math competition. Dylan Tie-Shue '20 and Stephen Garrett '20 advanced after taking the American Mathematics Competition 12 test; Alex van Lidth '22 and Sofia Paraoulaki de Miranda '23 advanced after taking the AMC 10. They excelled among some 300,000 students from 6,000 schools.
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Math team earns top finishes in Naples
2/3/2020
The upper school math team earned fourth overall at the Golden Gate Region 5 February Regional 2020 in Naples, Fla., Feb. 1, as two juniors – Viviana Vela '21 and Yuhan Liu '21 – claimed top-10 individual finishes and teams in statistics, calculus and pre-calculus each finished in the top four in their events.
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Coach

List of 1 members.

Karen Key

Mathematics & Computer Science Teacher

305-460-8815

University of Florida - B.S.

Student Leaders

President: Alexis Tie-Shue ‘23
Vice-President: Arjun Badwal ‘23
Secretary: Sabrina Shipley ‘22

Roster

Alfonso, Chloe (Chloe) '24
Badwal, Arjun '23
Berkshire, Ryan '23
Berler, Henry (Henry) '25
Bouyoucef, Mia '25
Buckner, Catherine '24
Buckner, Mackenzie '24
Camacho, Isabela '22
Charouhis, William (Will) '24
Chong, Isabel (Isabel) '24
Delic, Téa '24
Dovarganes, Rafael '22
Dua, Siona '24
Feldman, Logan (Logan) '24
Fox, Amelia '22
Fox, Ian '24
Gedde, Andrew '25
Goyanes, Isabella '22
Gross, Elliot (Elliot) '24
Gross, Erick (Erick) '24
He, Jack '25
Herrera Ponce de Leon, Valentina '24
Hucks, Grace (Gracie) '24
Jimenez, Joanna (Joanna) '25
Joeveer, Sirja '25
Kaplan, Hudson '25
Keedy Brown, Christine '24

Kumar, Nikhil '22
Lugo, Alexandra (Ali) '22
Martin, Violet (Violet) '24
Miner, Dylan '23
Moskovitz, Matthew '25
Motoki, Alan '24
Paraoulaki de Miranda, Sofia Dimitra (Sofia) '23
Paraoulaki de Miranda, Victoria '24
Pinilla, Victoria (Vicky) '25
Quintane, Emma '23
Sarmiento, Alejandra '23
Seidel, Colton '25
Shaked, Maya '24
Shipley, Sabrina '22
Stone, Dylan '22
Sun, Solon '25
Talluri, Sindhu '25
Tie-Shue, Alexis '23
Tong, Alexander '24
Tsialas, Athena '23
Van Lidth, Alexandre (Alex) '22
Wu, Nolan '24
Xu, Kerryn '22
Zhao, Marco '23
Zhou, Catherine '25

Middle School

2045 South Bayshore Drive, Coconut Grove, FL 33133
Phone: 305 250 6850

Upper School

3575 Main Highway, Coconut Grove, FL 33133
Phone: 305 460 8800

Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.

RE founder Paul Ransom, circa 1903