The Mathematics Department focuses its curriculum and instruction around the theme of problem solving. Students learn to use methods and techniques that build on what they have learned in previous courses. Real world problems and applications are emphasized. Students are taught to see connections in the problems they work from the graphical, numerical, and algebraic viewpoints. The faculty provides structured and personalized instruction to make concepts stick. Students learn organizational and time management skills through the completion of required homework and by keeping an organized notebook.
Blue Ridge School requires students to take at least one mathematics course each year and all students must pass Algebra I, Geometry, and Algebra II to graduate. Students may earn college credit through dual enrollment status with Piedmont Virginia Community College in Pre-Calculus and Calculus.
The appropriate use of computers and calculators is encouraged as an aid to problem solving in the mathematics classes listed below:
Algebra I
Geometry
Algebra II
Statistics
Pre-Calculus
Calculus I
Calculus II
