Mathematics Courses

Mission Statement: In order to prepare the students in our specialized math-science high school for today's technological society, the mission of the Mathematics Department is to improve students' analytical skills, problem solving abilities, and technological skills, as well as to develop an understanding and appreciation of the inductive and deductive reasoning employed in logic.

There are many exciting co-curricular and extra-curricular activities in mathematics. Students who participate in these activities meet people with similar interests and are challenged intellectually. Students may participate in any or all of the following activities:

I Research Program

Freshmen, sophomores, and juniors may take an elective called Math Research. Students are introduced to topics from many branches of mathematics, including geometry, number theory, game theory, and graph theory. Students will be trained in methods of research and writing research papers. These are invaluable skills for anyone interested in a technological career. Students in Math Research will be required to enter the New York City Math Fair in the spring of each year. The Math Fair affords Stuyvesant students the opportunity to meet other students from around the city at the presentations of the research papers.

II Math Team

The Stuyvesant High School Mathematics Team welcomes any philomath, regardless of mathematical ability. The math team meets every morning from 8:00 to 8:40. Students are placed in different rooms according to ability levels and are taught mathematics problem solving techniques which should be helpful for all math courses. Students are given short answer and long answer problems to solve from various city, state, and national math competitions. All students are eligible to participate in the state and national competitions, which are administered in the morning, and team members are chosen to take the city competitions, which are administered in the afternoon in different schools. The Math Team helps fulfill the school service requirement for admission into Arista, a student chapter of the National Honor Society.

III Math Survey - The Mathematics Magazine

Math Survey, the official student publication of mathematics at Stuyvesant for more than 65 years, keeps students informed as well as entertained about the most recent developments in mathematics. Each article received is carefully reviewed by two editors, one with a literary background and the other with a technical background. The magazine staff includes art, business, copy, layout, literary, photography and publicity departments.

IV The American Mathematics Competition

Students in honors classes, AP Calculus BC, Multivariate Calculus, Differential Equations, Intel Math Research, and Math Team will be required to participate in the American Mathematics Competition, a 75 minute examination that is sponosored by the American Mathematical Association. This national examination will be administered during school hours and students will incur no expense for taking this examination. The 25 question short answer examination is offered on 2 grade levels. The AMC-10 is for students in the 9th and 10th grades while the AMC-12 is for students in grades 11 and 12.

Course Title

Course Code

Miscellany

Honors Math Sequence

MG22H, MB31H, MB32H, MB33H, MM81H, MM82H

Students must sit for a Math exam to qualify for this math sequence.

Advanced Algebra

MM8A and MM8B

Full year course.

Pre-calculus

MM81 and MM82

Full year course.

Calculus Applications

MC1 and MC2

Full year course.

Mathematical Explorations

MM3PME

Advanced Placement Calculus (AB)

MC1X and MC2X

Full year course.By application.

Honors Advanced Placement Calculus (BC)

MC3X and MC4X

Full year course.By application.

Multivariate Calculus

MC5

Fall term only.By application.

Differential Equations

MC6

Spring term only.

Advanced Placement Statistics

MS1X and MS2X or MS2XE

Full year course.By application.

Advanced Placement Research Statistics

MS7X

Single term. Seniors only.By application.

Acoustical Technology

MMPP9T

Mathematics of Financial Markets

MMPPMF

Advanced Euclidean Geometry

MEEG

Not offered at this time.

Linear Algebra

MELA

Not offered at this time.

Statistics

MM3PST

Spring Term only.

Research Program

Course Code

Miscellany

Math Research

MM1R, MM2R

This course does NOT fulfill the Math requirement.

Senior Research- INTEL Talent Search

MM6R5 and MM7R5

Seniors only - Fall term; Juniors only - Spring term. This class meets for 1 period, over the course of a full year & upon acceptance of your Intel Research paper, will fulfill your 10 Period Tech requirement.By application. 90% mathematics average is required.

Computer Science Courses

Course Code

Miscellany - Does not satisfy required 3 year sequence in Mathemcatics

Introductory Computer Programming

ML1PIP and ML2PIP

Not offered Spring 2009.

Introduction to Computer Science

ML1

Required course beginning with the Class of 2007.

Advanced Placement Computer Science

ML1X and ML2X

By application.

System Level Programming

ML5

ML2X or permission of the Coordinator of the Computer Science Program is required.

Computer Graphics

ML6

ML2X or permission of the Coordinator of the Computer Science Program is required.

Computer Science Intel Research

ML6R5, ML7R5

This class meets for 1 period, over the course of a full year & upon acceptance of your Intel Research paper, will fulfill your 10 Period Tech requirement.By application.

Research in Computer Science

MC07

Not offered at this time.