math

If you’ve ever walked down the first-floor upper school hallway near the Admissions Office you may have noticed a bulletin board covered with abstract pieces of art. You may have also wondered what in the world the art was and who created it.
Recently the Beaver Reader’s Sebastian Smith ‘11 wrote about a class [...]

Math teacher Rob MacDonald and his advanced calculus class turned to architectural design to help them with calculus concepts. Mr. MacDonald describes the project:
Students were asked to design a small house and were given constraints about area and volume. In order to calculate areas and volumes precisely, they used calculus; they took integrals of the functions [...]

The students in Joe Christy’s 10th grade algebra II class have been applying what they are learning about functions through an ongoing bank activity. Working in groups, they are operating four virtual “banks” through the class’s Google site. Each bank sets its own interest rates and fees, and they compete for “customers” and profits. Banks [...]