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Math Department

Elizabeth Often
Director of Math (6-12)
781-721-7020 x4272
eoften@winchesterps.org

The Winchester Public Schools strives to offer a cohesive, coherent, and challenging program to all learners, K-12. We recognize that mathematical literacy is as essential as verbal literacy and scientific literacy. Therefore, the primary goal of the Winchester Public Schools mathematics program is to enable all students to achieve mathematical literacy. The characteristics of a mathematically literate person are encapsulated in the Mathematical Practice Standards of the Massachusetts Frameworks. In Winchester Public Schools, we expect that all students will be able to

 

  • Make sense of mathematical problems and persevere in solving them

  • Reason both abstractly and quantitatively

  • Explain their reasoning and discuss another student’s reasoning

  • Model real world problems using mathematics

  • Use technology as appropriate to support learning and problem solving

  • Be precise in their answers to problems

  • Recognize and use patterns and relationships between mathematical ideas in order to solve problems

All students at McCall Middle School take mathematics. Students are grouped heterogeneously in Math 6. Grade 6 teachers recommend students to one of three Grade 7 courses, Pre-Algebra, Algebra 7 or Advanced Algebra 7. Grade 7 teachers recommend students to the appropriate Grade 8 math course.

Throughout middle school, students develop proficiency with Number Sense, Ratio and Proportion, Algebraic Reasoning, Geometry, and Statistics. Students develop their problem solving skills alongside procedural knowledge in all mathematics courses. Students use a wide array of technology to enhance their learning, and calculators are introduced as appropriate. Course descriptions may be found at the link below.

 

Curriculum Overview