In the words of our Golden Apple Award-winning Middle School Math teacher, Ellen Petersen, “Math is Life” and a subject we take very seriously at SPS.  In addition to classroom learning, SPS provides additional resources for the mastery of Math and the thorough preparation of our students for high-school level courses.

Highlights of the Curriculum include:

• Mastery of the Five Strands of Mathematical proficiency            
  
  • Conceptual Understanding
  • Skill in carrying out mathematical procedures
  • Strategic Competence to formulate, represent, and solve mathematical problems
  • Adaptive Reasoning
  • Productive Disposition:  The habitual inclination to see mathematics as sensible, useful, and worthwhile
• Extended Math period
• In-classroom curriculum differentiation to meet each student’s individual abilities.
• Additional time for the study of Math during all Library classes, Grades K-8
• Teacher-led early-morning Math help sessions in Middle School
• Opportunity for qualifying 8^th graders to attend 9th Grade Honors Algebra I at Bishop Canevin High School.
• Classroom+ opportunities such as Thinking Caps, K’nex Challenge, Quiz Bowls and Chess Club