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HCIS math teachers use all their courses, from basic math to college- level calculus, as tools for helping students think critically, learn how to find important links between existing, growing, and future knowledge, and identify connections from day to day, concept to concept, and subject to subject. The math curriculum has been designed to prepare students for success in college-level mathematics.

Instead of an intimidating, rigid environment—and because they believe that challenged, happy teachers produce challenged, happy students—they create flexible and engaging study tracks designed to meet students where they are and take them where they need to go, whether they're math-passionate potential engineers, folks who aren't math nerds but who do want enough skill for a particular college or career, or people who need a lot of help to master the most basic concepts.

All those students can engage in self-directed learning, then experience the confidence-building satisfaction of thinking and using tools to solve problems. HCIS math teachers don't rely on rote rule memorization and regurgitation, but on developing skills and perspectives will stay with students far beyond a particular exam or required learning standard.

Textbooks can be limiting, so the money that would be spent on them is used instead for computer software that complements HCIS's commitment to technology and lets students see mathematical concepts at work, not just read about them.

More than anything, HCIS math teachers are dedicated to the idea that no single path exists from any given problem to its solution, but that as long as a solution can be validated, it can be legitimate. The path to solving a problem, they believe, might be more important than the solution.

Students at HCIS are required to complete 3 years of math in order to graduate. 4 years of Math is highly encouraged especially if a student is considering post-secondary education. All Minnesota state graduation standards are covered within Algebra 1 and Geometry.

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