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During late January, teachers recommend to their students courses that they should enroll in for the next year.For further information about this policy, contact the department chair. Students will generally not be permitted to skip courses by taking alternate courses and students who take alternate courses prior to the academic year course should do so with the understanding that they will encounter some repetition of material in their academic year course. In general only academic year courses provide the time and group interaction necessary to develop an appropriate understanding of the concepts involved. When encountering specific mathematics courses for the first time, students should not substitute such alternate courses for regular academic year courses in their mathematics programs. The mathematics department recommends that students take alternate mathematics courses (summer school, on-line, or after-school mathematics courses) only if they have done poorly in the corresponding academic year course or desire such a course for enrichment.The following guidelines are used by the Department regarding summer school courses for credit, and the placement of students in academic year courses: In particular, the program focuses on development of concepts and skills in the nine mathematics standards of the Weston Public Schools: Problem Solving, Number, Computation, Measurement, Geometry, Statistics, Probability, Functions/Algebra, and General Uses/Connections. The mathematics program provides opportunities for students to achieve the mathematical, statistical, and computer literacy that will be required by tomorrow’s society. Since we have witnessed tremendous growth in uses of mathematics during the past thirty years, it is virtually impossible to predict all our future mathematical needs.
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"The whole experience was really a lot of fun.The courses in mathematics emphasize the pattern, structure, and unifying ideas of the discipline. "It wasn't any harder or easier than we expected," said eighth-grader Caroline Lui, the Whitby team captain. Seventh-grader Neev Suryawanshi finished highest among Whitby's four mathletes, coming in 22nd. "We expect a stronger showing next year." "My guys will be back next year," said Brunswick coach Kevin Landesman. Whitby's and Country Day's mathletes all qualified based on individual performances, Brunswick advanced in the individual and team categories and Eastern Middle qualified as a team.īrunswick's team finished in 19th place, with its best individual performance coming from seventh-grader Christian Hartch, who finished 38th. They advanced after participating last month at a southwest Connecticut chapter competition at Fairfield University. Students from Brunswick School, Greenwich Country Day School and Whitby School also took part in the middle school competition. Michael Kural, now a Greenwich High School sophomore, qualified three straight years for the national event while at Eastern. It won the state team title last year, and Ma placed fifth individually in 20. "MathCounts has been a very exciting experience for me in the past three years, and I am looking forward to going to the national competition," Ma said.Įastern's top results continue a recent run of success. "These students have been putting in countless extra hours on nights and weekends to prepare for this competition.The competition this year was extremely difficult." "I am so excited that Eastern Middle School's team came in first at the state competition for the second year in a row," said Hoenigmann, a math teacher at Eastern. His teammates in the national event will be Mingfei Duan, who finished in first place, from East Lyme Middle School in East Lyme Koshik Mahapatra, the third-place finisher, from Turn of River Middle School in Stamford and fourth-place participant Shreyas Srinivasan, from Madison Middle School in Trumbull. As a top-four finisher, he qualified for the state team. Eighth-grader Steven Ma finished second individually in a 189-participant field. That squad will include an Eastern mathlete.