National High School & Two-Year College Mathematics Honor Society

Our Region 4 recipient of the Regional Sponsor of the Year Award is Dr. Julia S. Arnold. Dr. Arnold has been teaching math at Tidewater Community College for 31 years, and has been her chapter's lead sponsor for 10 years. Dr. Arnold (who earned a black belt in Chutoku-Rye Karate alongside her grandson!) collects cartoons of math and Noah's Ark, and she and her husband of 44 years recently took the trip of a lifetime to Israel with her church. Her words of advice ring clear and true: "Use...

Select students from Doral Academy Charter School recently competed in the 49th annual Mu Alpha Theta National Convention, held in Las Vegas, and placed sixth out of 50 schools — ending the week-long competition with 40 trophies. The winning students from Doral Academy included Anirudh Rahul with six trophies; Allan DoLago, Alberto Alvarez, and Amanda Miyares with four trophies each; Diana Bishop, Tae Lee, Marc Marquez, Raul Valle, and Christian Villa with three trophies each; Manuel...

Under the leadership of sponsor Joe Rasmus, the 2019 Diane Rubin Award-winning Mu Alpha Theta chapter at Williamston High School in Williamston, MI, has had a very busy few years! For the past six years, chapter members have been volunteering twice a week to tutor elementary school students in mathematics. Members also help run the “Middle School Problem of the Month,” a monthly math challenge open to local middle school students. For the past five years, the chapter has...

Math came alive for middle and lower school students at this successful event organized by St. Andrew’s High School MAѲ members and sponsor, Lisa Winer. As the school band filled the air with cool sounds of light jazz, participants ate delicious food and explored math games like SET, Aggression, and Balance Beans. All games involved math with many on loan from the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival. MAѲ members staffed the games, teaching young problem solvers the rules, plus tips such...

This past spring, St. Joseph High School was awarded a chapter grant to support its Pi Day Celebration and middle school math meet. As told by their sponsor:

It’s hard for many students to believe that learning and using math can be fun and exciting. Here at SJHS, our Mu Alpha Theta chapter organized two special community mathematics events to share their own love for math with the students, faculty and staff of our school as well of those at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic...