MATHEMATICS
One of the important goals of the Mathematics Department is to help students develop an expertise in the following Mathematical Practices: (Source: NYSED site)
1. Make sense of the problems and persevere in solving them.
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
4. Model with mathematics to solve everyday problems.
5. See appropriate tools strategically.
6. Attend to precision.
7. Look for and make use of structure.
8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning
MIDDLE SCHOOL
Requirements: Midterm, NYS Exam
Description: This Common Core aligned course allows students to review concepts taught in the 5th grade curriculum and extend the depth and complexity of those topics through investigation, discovery, and application. Additionally, this course introduces new content and provides a platform for problem-solving, analysis and critical thinking to be woven throughout the content. Major topics include but are not limited to, connecting ratios and rates to whole number multiplication and division and utilizing these concepts within word problems, extending knowledge of division with regards to rational numbers including negative integers, utilizing expressions and equations as it relates to understanding, interpreting, writing and applying them, and expanding the depth of statistical thinking and concepts.
Requirements: Midterm, NYS Exam
Description: This Common Core-aligned course allows students to review concepts taught in the 6th grade curriculum and extend the depth and complexity of those topics through investigation, discovery, and application. Additionally, this course introduces new content and provides a platform for problem-solving, analysis and critical thinking to be woven throughout the content. Topics include but are not limited to, proportionality, ratios and rates, number operations, percent application, expressions, equations and inequalities, and probability and statistics.
Requirements: Midterm, NYS Exam
Description: In this Common Core-aligned course, eighth graders will work extensively with linear equations, focusing on in-depth understanding and interpretation as it relates to real world application. There will be a concentration on the slope and initial value of a function, as well as different methods of solving systems of linear equations such as Graphing, Elimination and Substitution. Additionally, students will engage in geometric topics, including but not limited to, similarity, and congruence of geometric shapes. Other concepts taught include the Number System (rational/irrational numbers), the Pythagorean Theorem, and Exponential functions