GOINGS ON : Numbers to Fly at 8th High School Math Meet : Ojai students will be among competitors in the event this afternoon at Westmont College.

If you’re not busy this afternoon and want a reminder of how little you remember from high school, visit Westmont College for the eighth annual math competition, pitting Southern California students against one another.

Students from Ojai’s Thacher School, the only Ventura County representatives, will go against those from nine other schools, including Cate School in Carpinteria, Bishop Diego High School (Santa Barbara), Linfield High School (San Diego), Crescenta Valley High School (La Crescenta), and defending team champion Dos Pueblos High School (Santa Barbara).

The numbers will be flying from 1 to 5:30 p.m. Westmont College is at 955 La Paz Road, Santa Barbara. Call 565-6178.

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Conductor Igor Golovchin and pianist Vladimir Ovchinnikov will lead the State Symphony of Russia in concert Friday at the Arlington Theatre.

The all-Russian program will include Tchaikovsky’s Polonaise from “Eugene Onegin,” Mussorgsky’s Overture from “Sorochinsky Fair,” Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34,” Borodin’s “Polovtsian Dances” from “Prince Igor,” and Stravinsky’s Suite from “The Firebird.” The concert will begin at 8 p.m. Tickets range from $19 to $49. Call the Community Arts Music Assn. at 966-4324 or the Arlington at 963-4408. The Arlington is located at 1317 State St.

UCSB music professor Geoffrey Rutkowski will lecture on the evening’s music beginning at 6:45 p.m. at the American Savings Bank, 1330 State St. Admission is free to concert-goers.

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UC Santa Barbara’s MultiCultural Center on Friday will host L.A. Teatro, a theater group founded by students at Cal State Los Angeles, as a forum for dealing with Chicano and Latino issues. The group will perform a comedy titled “Sorry Wrong ,” which examines materialism and capitalism in a white, male-dominated society, and how members of the Chicano and Latino communities can get caught up in it. Performances at UCSB’s Girvetz Theater are 7 and 9 p.m. Admission is free. Call 893-8411.

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Five British stage actors will travel to UCSB Friday and Saturday when the Actors from the London Stage ensemble performs William Shakespeare’s romantic comedy “Twelfth Night.” The actors tour the United States as part of the UCSB-based group ACTER (A Centre for Theatre, Education and Research).

The touring actors are Geoffrey Church, who has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Court Theatre; Richard Cordery, who was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and appeared in the film “Lorenzo’s Oil”; Eunice Roberts, who teaches Shakespeare at the British American Drama Academy in London; Hugh Sullivan, who studies at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and Suzan Sylvester, who has performed with the Royal National Theatre.

Show times at Campbell Hall are 8 p.m. Friday and 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday. General admission is $16, $13 and $10. Call 893-3535.

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COMING UP: The Seaside Theatre Company of Carpinteria will perform William Inge’s “A Loss of Roses” Feb. 10 to March 6 at the Carpinteria Arts and Lectures Center, 5141 Carpinteria Ave. The play follows the loves, struggles and inner strengths of a mother, her adult son and a friend living together in a small town near Kansas City during the Depression. Show times are 8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays with a 2 p.m. show Sunday, March 6. Tickets are $9. Call 684-6380.