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Kay Tipton
[[Image:Hawaii_sponsors.jpg|right|thumb|Mrs. Stevens, former AP Calculus teacher; Mrs. Teer; Mrs. Tipton; Mr. Milam, former AP Calculus teacher]]
'''Kay Tipton''' is an award-winning [[mathematics]] teacher at [[Vestavia Hills High School]], a public high school in [[Vestavia Hills, Alabama]], (a suburb of [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]]). She has been at the school since its establishment in [[1970]]. Tipton founded the Vestavia Hills High School Math Team in [[1975]] and has served as math department chair since [[1989]]. Her math teams have consistently ranked among the best in the United States in national competitions such as [[Mu Alpha Theta]] and many of her students have qualified for the prestigious [[USAMO]] (United States of America Mathematical Olympiad). The math team's entire senior class of 2005 also qualified for the [[AIME]] and nearly all of them became [[National Merit Scholarship Program|National Merit Finalists]].

She is a two-time winner of the [[Mathematical Association of America|Mathematical Association of America's]] "Distinguished High School Mathematics Teaching Edyth May Sliffe Award" (1991 & 1992), a three-time winner of the White House Commission of Presidential Scholars Distinguished Teacher Award, as well as recipient of both the Golden Apple Teacher of the Year Award and [[Cornell University|Cornell University's]] Outstanding High School Educator Award.

Her greatest rival are the Hoover High Buccaneers, in which she has lost many math tournaments to.⏎
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==References==
*[http://www.ahsimc.com/about.htm ITest Website]
*[http://math.gosuapm.com Vestavia Hills High School Math Team Website]

==External links==
*[http://www.vestavia.k12.al.us/high/ Vestavia Hills High School website]
*[http://www.vestavia.k12.al.us/high/index.php?module=htmlpages&func=display&pid=109 Vestavia Hills High School profile]
*[http://www.maa.org/Awards/sliffe.html Mathematics Association of America honors Kay Tipton]
*[http://www.legislature.state.al.us/SearchableInstruments/2001TS/Resolutions/SJR3.htm Alabama State Legislature honors Kay Tipton]

[[Category:Year of birth missing|Tipton, Kay]]
[[Category:Living people|Tipton, Kay]]
[[Category:People from Alabama|Tipton, Kay]]
[[Category:American schoolteachers|Tipton, Kay]]

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