Math

Math At Presentation, math is about more than just numbers. It’s about teaching young women critical thinking skills they can use to set goals and accomplish tasks. At its core, the Presentation Math Department is dedicated to providing a strong foundation for our future innovators. Our students not only learn the fundamentals of math, but also learn to apply them to the fields of engineering, science, economics and business. By connecting our curriculum to real-world applications, students learn to make decisions through investigation, interpretation and logic.

Bringing Concepts to Life 3D transformations can be difficult to visualize on paper, so our Geometry students make short films to illustrate them instead. Students splice photographs together on film to track an object’s movement as it translates, rotates, reflects and dilates over a coordinate plane.

Rounding Up Presentation offers a variety of upper-division math electives, allowing students to double-up on courses to develop a strong, well-rounded math resume.

Business Savvy Many businesses today use iPads instead of cash registers to conduct transactions. At Pres, we teach students to develop business ideas and build their own functional register systems in Java.

A Numbers Game Math contests are open to all students who demonstrate enthusiasm for math. These contests give students the opportunity to apply what they learn in the classroom to sets of challenging problems. Students compete in math contests against other schools both on and off campus.

Faculty Perspective

Shikha Naik | Math Department Chair

“Having attended an all-girl school myself has helped me to connect with my students and make my classroom a community. Mathematics may not be everyones’ favorite subject, but helping my students develop a growth mindset is at the core of what I teach.”

Standard Course of Study

Freshman Year

• Algebra I, Accelerated Algebra I or Geometry • Honors Geometry* or Honors Algebra II*

Sophomore Year • Geometry or Algebra II • Honors Algebra II* or Honors Precalculus*

Junior year

• Algebra II or Precalculus • Honors Precalculus*, AP Calculus AB or AP Calculus BC

Senior Year • Precalculus • or Statistics I and II • or Calculus I • or AP Calculus AB

• or AP Calculus BC • or Honors Multivariable Calculus • or AP Statistics

Senior Year Electives • Statistics I and II • AP Statistics • AP Computer Science

*Honors/Advanced Placement (Placement is determined by performance on challenge tests).

A year-long class at an accredited program in the desired course is a must before taking the placement test.