All students can learn mathematics and deserve the opportunity to do so. Recognizing the diversity among children, Hampton educators do not expect all students to learn mathematics in the same manner, using the same resources, and in the same time frame. Instruction, therefore, focuses on an activity-based, hands-on system of delivery wherein students utilize a wide variety of manipulatives, calculators and computers to transition them from concrete understandings to pictorial representations before they embark upon abstract concepts.

The Elementary Mathematics Department's primary focus is to implement the newly revised 2009 Virginia Department of Education Mathematics Standards in all 24 elementary and PreK-8 schools. A Curriculum Framework designed to assist teachers with essential knowledge as well as Crosswalks highlighting changes and revisions promote this transition from the 2001 Standards to the new 2009 Standards. Newly aligned math assessments will be administered at the end of every nine weeks. Disaggregation of data from these assessments is used to drive instructional decisions within individual classrooms by focusing change toward improved student achievement.

The Secondary Mathematics Department is primarily responsible for the development and implementation of all high school credited mathematics courses in middle and high school. Our primary goal is to provide support for a meaningful, interesting, and rigorous mathematics curriculum, aligned with the State of Virginia’s SOLs, the Advanced Placement Curriculum, and the International Baccalaureate Program. We are eager to serve our community of learners so that our students have the necessary mathematics preparation for continuing education and the workforce. In addition, we help our students understand the joy of an involvement with mathematics in a recreational setting. It is our consistent desire to provide the best mathematical instruction for all of our students in an effort to help them recognize the lifelong value that mathematics offers.

 

 

Secondary Mathematics Course Offerings

PreAlgebra (grades 6 or 7)
Algebra I
Geometry /Honors Geometry
Algebra II/Honors Algebra II
Probability and Statistics
Elementary Functions/PreCalculus
AP Calculus AB/AP Calculus BC
Computer Math/AP Computer Science
Algebra, Functions and Data Analysis
Family Living and Finances (modified diploma)

Mathematics Special Programs
For information call the HCS Math Office: 727-2477