Oak Hill Math Team wins the prestigious CBA Brother Christian Jones Middle School Math Tournament Contest
Fifty-Two years ago, Christian Brothers Academy began their Brother Christian Jones Middle School Math Tournament. Although the format of the 2024-25 tournament has changed since its inception in 1973, the premise remains the same – to challenge the depth of students’ math knowledge through a variety of thought provoking questions. This year’s tournament consisted of four preliminary rounds and one final tournament round. Each of the preliminary rounds, taken within the participating schools, consisted of 10 multiple choice and one open-ended question all designed and corrected by the students on the CBA Math Team. The team score was the sum of the top four students per school.
Oak Hill Academy, a private school in Lincroft New Jersey, took their 105 point lead into the final round, but since the final round was worth 750 points and since the competition consisted of several local strong public and parochial schools, maintaining the lead was not certain.
On February 20, the Oak Hill Academy Math Team, consisting of Grace Zheng (Middletown), James Badishkanian (Spring Lake), Ben Leber (Freehold), Aashi Jain (Holmdel), James Fu (Morganville), Heqi Miao (Holmdel), Brody Williams (Tinton Falls), and Emily Xie (Marlboro), convened at CBA to participate in this final exciting round. Unlike the first four preliminary rounds, which were all completed as individuals, this final round was completed as a team.
After the events were graded, all schools convened in the library for the awards ceremony. Oak Hill Academy reestablished itself as the Top School (first time since 2022) by winning the entire competition. There were 266 students competing in all four preliminary rounds. 8th grader, Grace Zheng came in 1st place overall for the second consecutive year and 7th grader, James Fu, came in 3rd place!!
Congratulations to the Oak Hill Math Team and their coach, Mrs. Rita Cotterell, for their outstanding performance!.
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