The math department met on November 14, 2007, in Linda Schmidtendorff's room.  Present were: Linda Daniels, Shari Nevins, Kathy Parker, Linda Schmidtendorff, Steve Proctor, Chad Podolak, and Dave Sheahan.

Elementary teachers discussed the new Saxon program.  Linda Daniels requested that play money be purchased for the kindergarten classes.  This is a part of the Saxon program that was not done in kindergarten in the previous version.  Play money is needed to teach this concept effectively.

 

Mrs. Nevins reported that first grade is looking for sample report cards.  They want to change their report cards and are looking for cards from other schools to review.

 

High school teachers discussed the practice ACT test which will be available this year.

 

There was also discussion of the need for another math class, possibly a statistics class.

 

There was considerable discussion of the tri-mester schedule which some schools have adopted.  Pros and cons of this kind of schedule were discussed at length.