NYHS new teacher Rivkah Singh created a club for competing in math competitions and growing overall confidence in the subject.
The club was created in order to inspire students in getting over their fear of math and students can utilize math in AI projects that they wouldn’t be able to do in regular math class.
The reason why Singh loves math so much is because it’s a part of her everyday life outside and in school. Outside of school, she works with AI engineering and during school hours she is a math teacher.
“When you love something, you want to share it,” Singh said.
Singh strives to learn with and inspire high schoolers through this math club she created. Overall, Singh says her goals for this year’s math club is to get into competitions and provide internships for the seniors and juniors.
“Even if you don’t win, you would have the satisfaction of competing,” said Singh.
In addition to competitions, the Math Club does coding projects. The foundation of the projects are made with the languages C++ and Python. First, the members will understand the foundations of that mathematics, and then start with a base, programming language like Python.
Math Club meets on Fridays in room 302 during lunch. President of the club is Eden Shelby, the vice president is Levi Schiffmann, their secretary is Mose Owen, and treasurer is Adam Hickox. In total, there are seven people in the club. During their meetings, the club does coding, AI, and math-related projects. There will be local, state, and national competitions.
Although, she says, math wasn’t always her favorite. However, after she read a book about physics called ‘The Elegant Universe’ by Brian Greene, she was interested. The physics and AI aspect of math inspired her to change her major. Instead of becoming a cop, she became a math teacher.
One of the students in the Math club that comes every Friday is Schiffmann. He is passionate about math, AI, and coding. He was instantly captivated by the projects.
“When I heard about it on the first day, I knew instantly I was connected,” he said.
His goals for the club are to develop his thinking skills and add it onto his college resume.
“If you have a talent and you’re willing to work hard, then the sky’s the limit,” Singh said.
