Mathematics
All entering freshmen take a mathematics placement test in order to determine appropriate class placement. Summer school study may allow students to skip ahead in the sequence of courses.
Sequence of math courses at M.A.S.T.:
- Algebra I
- Geometry
- Algebra II/Trigonometry or Algebra II/Pre-Calculus
- Pre-Calculus
- Calculus or AP Calculus AB
- AP Calculus BC (open only to those who completed AP Calculus AB)
Freshmen who have had Algebra I and do well on the placement test may be placed in Geometry. Students who have not had Algebra I, or who need additional study of the subject as indictaed by the placement test, have the option of attending the district's summer school program so that they can be placed in Geometry freshman year.
Placement in Algebra II/Pre-Calculus, and successful completion of the course, allows a student to skip the year-long Pre-Calculus course that is offered and go directly into AP Calculus AB. Students who were in Algebra II/Trigonometry, having successfully completed summer classes offered by our county community college (at the student's expense), might also be afforded the opportunity to skip Pre-Calculus and take Calculus or AP Calculus AB. Completion of the AP courses is most successful when the student takes the course/s at the recommendation of M.A.S.T.'s mathematics instructors.
Statistics is a year-long course offered to senior students as an elective.
Responsibility for teaching the mathematics classes is rotated among the mathematics instructors (Mr. Christopher Barnes, Mrs. Christine Burger, Mrs. Laura Widmer, and Mr. Eugene Stoye) each year, although Mr. Stoye teaches all the AP Calculus AB classes, and Mr. Barnes teaches all the AP Calculus BC classes.