Telra Math Team

What's New

• March 14th, 2025 Telra Math Team won State Championship, countdown round runner-up, and 3 of top 5 individuals at NC State MathCounts.

• February 26th, 2025 Seven students from Telra Math Team advanced to the State finals.  

• January 30th, 2025 AMC8 scores are out. Telra has two perfect scorers and ten students on Achievement Roll.

• December 7th, 2024 Telra Math Team won 1st place team,  countdown round champion, and 4 of top 6 individuals at Tri-Mathalon. 

• September 12th, 2024 Second tryout. 

• September 6th, 2024 Invitation email sent to parents. 

• September 5th, 2024 First tryout. 

2024-25 Team Selection

The 2024-25 Telra Math Team will include a high school team, a middle school team, and possibly a girls team. The initial team selection will be conducted during in-person tryouts on Khan Academy. Students will be asked to complete the course challenges for 7th grade, 8th grade, Algebra I, and Geometry. 

The following cutoffs will be used for initial screening: 

• High school team: 90% on average for Algebra I and Geometry;

• Middle school team: 90% for both 7th grade and 8th grade, and 90%  on average for 7th grade, 8th grade, and Algebra I.

Additional team selection tests will be conducted to select the school team for MATHCOUNTS. The school team is made of 4 middle schoolers (6th - 8th graders). 

First tryout: 3:30pm - 4:45pm, September 5th, 2024

Second tryout: 3:30pm - 4:45pm, September 12th, 2024

2025 AMC8 Statistics

• Distinguished Honor Roll (23 or higher): 2

• Honor Roll (19-22): 8

• Achievement Roll: 10

2024-25 Planned Activities

• November 6 & 12, 2024 AMC10/12

• December 7, 2024 Trimathalon (Community House Middle School)

• January 22, 2025 AMC8

• February 6, 2025 AIME

• February 16, 2025 MATHCOUNTS Charlotte Chapter Competition (UNC Charlotte)

• March 8, 2025 NCCTM Regional Math Contest (Ardrey Kell High School)

• March 14, 2025 MATHCOUNTS State Competition (NCSSM)

• April 2025 NCCTM State Math Contest (NCSSM)

• April 2025 Purple Comet! Math Meet

• May 11-12, 2025 MATHCOUNTS Nationals (Washington, DC)

• May 2025 Gauss Contest

• June 2025 ARML (TBD)

2024-25 Team Roster

• Tao Hong (Head Coach)

• Leo Hong (Assistant Coach)

• Aaron Wu

• Advaith Gajjala

• Allen Li

• Angela Hong2 

• Eric Amirbekyan

• Ethan Chen

• Henry Wang1

• Isaac Xu

• James Yuan

• Kapil Shyam Sundar1

• Kinley Davis2

• Laena Bhatt2

• Leo Hong1

• Maelin Bhatt2

• Rivan Bhatt

• Riya Pyaram2

• Shreyash Vanapalli

• Steven (Zixuan) Wang1

1 MATHCOUNTS school team members

2 Girls team members

Selected Math Competitions

• American Mathematics Competitions (AMC8; AMC10/12 -> AIME)

• MATHCOUNTS (Chapter -> State -> National)

• University of Waterloo CEMC (Gauss)

• NCCTM State Math Contest (Chapter -> State -> ARML)

• Purple Comet! Math Meet

• C fo C Math Meet

Archive

• Telra Math Team 2023-24