The department provides math instruction appropriate to each student’s ability.  Teachers enhance learning through the use of world applications, technology, and visuals and encourage students to think critically. Students learn to approach each challenge arithmetically, analytically, graphically, and verbally.  The middle school places emphasis on problem-solving, understanding, and conceptual and computational competency.  Eighth graders study Algebra I which has been combined with Algebra II to form a two-year algebra sequence.  The grade earned at the end of Algebra I will appear on his or her high school transcript.