Mathematics Curriculum

Curriculum goals in mathematics at Mt. Everett High School offer our students the opportunity to engage in both a core and advanced program of studies. The core of studies is based on and is driven by the Massachusetts Mathematics Curriculum Frameworks. Our program is designed to prepare all of our students for future academic studies, technological, and vocational training in our rapidly changing society, and the ability to sustain adult life in the modern work force.

With our broad spectrum approach, we work to ensure that all our students will reach proficient levels in mathematics competency, as defined by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts through the MCAS. We provide differentiated and challenging courses that allow students to reach their maximum potential. Our honors students may explore and fill each school year with challenging and vital math studies allowing for individual development and a personal sense of excitement as they advance through the program.

While three years of high school mathematics is the requirement for graduation, we encourage all our students to attain higher goals and further their math studies. Our flexible program permits students to build confidence through personal achievement, and our courses offer five tracked math programs. These opportunities to advance within the program to more challenging opportunities provide our students with not only the skills to succeed in math, but help to build self-assurance for all their future endeavors.

On the Elementary School level we work to ensure an early enjoyment of mathematics as students develop an in-depth understanding of the curriculum. Following the Massachusetts State Frameworks, our curriculum focuses around the five strands of mathematics:

• Number Sense and Operation
• Patterns, Relations, and Algebra
• Geometry
• Measurement
• Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability

Our strong K-6 mathematics instruction emphasizes problem solving, communication, reasoning and proof, making connections, and representations incorporated within each of the five strands. Daily instruction utilizes a variety of curriculum materials including the Scott Foreman-Addison Wesley math series, TERC Investigations, and the work of Marilyn Burns. Our students can count on differentiated instruction, math centers, games, hands-on manipulatives, real world connections, and writing to explain their thinking, in addition to direct instruction and daily written practice. This variety with instructional techniques and practice tools helps to ensure that students acquire the necessary skills at their grade level.