CHS Math Department
The Calabasas High School Mathematics Program is designed to offer equal opportunity to all students. It blends the basic skills necessary for college entry-level mathematics with the abstract, application with theory, and conceptual understanding. Teachers challenge students by providing students many opportunities to apply mathematical concepts in real world situations and work collaboratively on unit and semester projects.
The Calabasas High School Mathematics Program is designed to offer equal opportunity to all students. It blends the basic skills necessary for college entry-level mathematics with the abstract, application with theory, and conceptual understanding. Teachers challenge students by providing students many opportunities to apply mathematical concepts in real world situations and work collaboratively on unit and semester projects.
Effective mathematics teaching using students’ struggles as valuable opportunities to deepen their understanding of mathematics. Students come to realize that they are capable of doing well in mathematics with effort and perseverance in reasoning, sense making, and problem solving. Teachers provide supports for students, individually and collectively, to work through uncertainties as they grapple with representing a mathematical relationship, explaining and justifying their reasoning, or finding a solution strategy for a mathematical problem. As teachers, we want our students to embrace struggle as a natural aspect of learning in the mathematics classroom.
Effective mathematics teaching using students’ struggles as valuable opportunities to deepen their understanding of mathematics. Students come to realize that they are capable of doing well in mathematics with effort and perseverance in reasoning, sense making, and problem solving. Teachers provide supports for students, individually and collectively, to work through uncertainties as they grapple with representing a mathematical relationship, explaining and justifying their reasoning, or finding a solution strategy for a mathematical problem. As teachers, we want our students to embrace struggle as a natural aspect of learning in the mathematics classroom.
The mission of Calabasas High School is to prepare all students - the PACK - to become positive, contributing 21st century global citizens.
The mission of Calabasas High School is to prepare all students - the PACK - to become positive, contributing 21st century global citizens.
School-wide Expected Learning Goals:
School-wide Expected Learning Goals:
P: The PACK will demonstrate the ability to address complex, real-world PROBLEMS logically.
A: The PACK will demonstrate the ability to ANALYZE and APPLY essential data to prepare for complex jobs of the future.
C: The PACK will demonstrate the ability to COMMUNICATE ideas to peers and adults in an effective manner through speech, writing and technology.
K: The PACK will develop moral and civic responsibilities and KNOW how to become contributing members in local and global communities.
To assist student learning and achievement, the CHS Math Department addresses the goals of the PACK and the Eight Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics:
To assist student learning and achievement, the CHS Math Department addresses the goals of the PACK and the Eight Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics:
- Establish mathematics goals to focus learning.
- Implement tasks that promote reasoning and problem solving.
- Use and connect mathematical representations.
- Facilitate meaningful mathematics discourse.
- Pose purposeful questions.
- Build procedural fluency for conceptual understanding.
- Support productive struggle in learning mathematics.
- Elicit and use evidence of student thinking.