This class is designed with all students at Dalton in mind. Algebra 2 continues the study of functions from 8th grade Algebra and incorporates the application of those functions to mathematical models. Students will become proficient working with a set of functions that have broad applications. This course prepares students for future study in math, science, and engineering.

Full Year Course, 1.0 credit

This class is designed with all students at Dalton in mind. Algebra 2 continues the study of functions from 8th grade Algebra and incorporates the application of those functions to mathematical models. Students will become proficient working with a set of functions that have broad applications. This course prepares students for future study in math, science, and engineering.

This honors class is designed for students who seek a challenging experience in math. Students are expected to become comfortable engaging with novel problems and creating mathematical models to represent real world situations. This course covers the standard Algebra 2 curriculum in greater theoretical depth.

 

Requires Preapproval
Minimum requirements: completion of 8th grade Algebra (conceptual) or department approval
Full Year Course, 1.0 credit

This high honors class is designed for students who seek the highest level of challenge in Algebra offered by the math department. Students are expected to complete demanding work and maintain a quick pace. Each topic is given a formal and rigorous treatment. In addition to the standard Algebra 2 curriculum, students will study the complex plane, conic sections, and trigonometry.

Requires Preapproval
Minimum requirements: completion of 8th grade Algebra (conceptual) with department approval
Full Year Course, 1.0 credit

This high honors class is designed for students who seek the highest level of challenge in Algebra offered by the math department. Students are expected to complete demanding work and maintain a quick pace. Each topic is given a formal and rigorous treatment. In addition to the standard Algebra 2 curriculum, students will study the complex plane, conic sections, and trigonometry.

Minimum requirements: grade of A in 8th grade Algebra (conceptual)
Full Year Course, 1.0 credit
Requires Preapproval

Requires Preapproval
Minimum requirements: completion of Algebra 2 (or equivalent).
Full Year Course, 1.0 credit    

 

Requires Preapproval
Minimum requirements: satisfactory completion of Algebra 2-‘2A’.
Full Year Course, 1.0 credit    

This honors class is designed for students who seek a challenging experience and who may be interested in future study of math, science, computer science, or engineering. Students are expected to become comfortable engaging with novel problems. The course covers the standard Precalculus curriculum both in theory and in how those topics are applied in science and engineering. Students will complete the first topic of Calculus – limits – by the end of the year.

Requires Preapproval
Minimum requirements: satisfactory completion of Algebra 2-‘1A’ and Geometry ‘1A’
Full Year Course, 1.0 credit    

This course is designed with all students at Dalton in mind. Students will become proficient in the methods and concepts of Calculus. This includes methods for finding the slopes of curves and the area under and beneath curves along with their applications in science and engineering. Calculus serves as a capstone of the high school math curriculum, incorporating ideas from each previous year of study.

Requires Preapproval
Minimum requirements: completion of Precalculus
Full Year Course, 1.0 credit

Requires Preapproval
Minimum requirements: satisfactory completion of  Precalculus ‘2A’
Full Year Course, 1.0 credit

This class is designed for students who are interested in how math is applied. This course covers methods of data analysis, the design of surveys and experiments, topics in probability, and methods for drawing sound inferences from data. Students will collect data from a variety of sources, complete independent and group projects, discuss contemporary issues through a statistical lens, and create models using statistical software.

Prerequisite: completion of Precalculus.
Full Year Course, 1.0 credit    

This honors class is designed for students who are interested in how math is applied and who seek a challenging experience. Students are expected to engage with statistical concepts with more mathematical sophistication. This course follows the standard Statistics curriculum and gives each topic an extended and enriched treatment.

Minimum requirements: grade of A in Precalculus or grade of B in Precalculus ‘1A’ or completion of Precalculus ‘2A’.
Full Year Course, 1.0 credit

This high honors class is designed for students who seek the highest level of challenge offered by the math department and who may be interested in future study of math. In Linear Algebra, students explore linear equations and their representations as matrices and vectors. This course is central to many areas of math, science, and engineering and is equivalent to a one-semester college course. It is an important step for future math majors. Students are expected to complete demanding work in a rigorous and formal context.

Requires Preapproval
Minimum requirements: grade of A in Calculus ‘1A’ or completion of Calculus ‘2A’.
Seniors may take Linear Algebra concurrently with Calculus ‘1A’ or Calculus ‘2A’ with department approval.
Full Year Course, 1.0 credit

The Dalton Math Team participates in math contests at the city, state, and national levels. Math contests provide an engaging challenge for students who enjoy solving novel problems. While only knowledge of Algebra and Geometry is required, math contest problems require inventive thinking. Through math team participation, students develop better problem solving skills that can be applied in their core academic courses and beyond.

Full Year Course, 0.25 or 0.5 credits

Independent studies are opportunities for 10th, 11th, and 12th grade students to pursue ideas and passions not covered by current course work.  

Students must complete this form to apply for preapproval.

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Graded Pass/Fail
Fall or Spring Semester Course, 0.25 credits

Chaos theory, a cutting-edge field of math that took off with the advent of modern computing, has applications in everything from meteorology to the stock market and beyond. In this course, we will study fundamental ideas in chaos theory and the mathematical discipline of dynamical systems, an area of math focused on systems that change over time. Starting with the idea of iteration, we will explore how small changes in initial conditions can produce big differences in outcomes. We will come to understand a hallmark of chaos theory and dynamics: even the most simple and deterministic systems can produce unpredictable behavior and even the most complex systems can reveal some kind of order. Finally, we will see how these ideas apply to the beautiful world of fractals, including the Julia sets and the Mandelbrot set.

This course is offered by Interschool (at Spence) once a week in the evening.

Full Year Course, 0.5 credits

In this elective course students work together, in an informal atmosphere, to solve challenging math problems. Problems are taken from a variety of topics, including algebra, geometry, combinatorics, probability, and number theory. Problems are chosen for their interest, they are sometimes discussed for fairly long periods of time, and they are tackled collaboratively. The class should be of interest to students who love math and want to learn more, and to students who want to become better problem solvers. 

This course is offered by Interschool (at Dalton) once a week in the evening.

Full Year Course, 0.5 credits

Game Theory is the mathematical analysis of conflict and cooperation, where “players" can include individuals, corporations, governments, or even nature. The theory attempts to predict, explain or recommend courses of action in situations where one player's success depends on the decisions of all players. The theoretical analysis of such situations is taught through applications in economics, politics, business, evolutionary biology, religion, philosophy, military strategy, computer science, and sports, as well as through games such as poker and chess.  Students will develop quantitative models for strategic situations, and analysis will include optimization and graphical analysis.

This course is offered by Interschool (at Dalton) once a week in the evening.

Full Year Course, 0.5 credits

This high honors class is designed for students who seek the highest level of challenge offered by the math department and who may be interested in future study of math. In Linear Algebra, students explore linear equations and their representations as matrices and vectors. This course is central to many areas of math, science, and engineering and is equivalent to a one-semester college course. It is an important step for future math majors. Students are expected to complete demanding work in a rigorous and formal context.

Requires Preapproval
Minimum requirements: grade of A in Calculus ‘1A’ or completion of Calculus ‘2A’.
Seniors may take Linear Algebra concurrently with Calculus ‘1A’ or Calculus ‘2A’ with department approval.
Full Year Course, 1.0 credit

In this course, students learn to differentiate and integrate functions of several variables. We extend the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus to multiple dimensions and the course will culminate in Green's, Stokes' and Gauss' Theorems. The course opens with a unit on vectors, which introduces students to this critical component of advanced calculus. We then move on to study partial derivatives, double and triple integrals, and vector calculus in both two and three dimensions. Students are expected to develop fluency with vector and matrix operations. Understanding parametric curve as a trajectory described by a position vector is an essential concept, and this allows us to break free from one-dimensional calculus and investigate paths, velocities, and other applications of science that exist in three-dimensional space. We study derivatives in multiple dimensions and use the ideas of the gradient and partial derivatives to explore optimization problems with multiple variables as well as consider constrained optimization problems using Lagrangians. After our study of differentials in multiple dimensions, we move to integral calculus. We use line and surface integrals to calculate physical quantities especially relevant to mechanics, electricity and magnetism, such as work and flux. We will employ volume integrals for calculations of mass and moments of inertia and conclude with the major theorems (Green's, Stokes', Gauss') of the course, applying each to some physical applications that commonly appear in calculus-based physics. Prerequisite: The equivalent of a college year of single-variable calculus, including integration techniques, such as trigonometric substitution, integration by parts, and partial fractions. Completion of the AP Calculus BC curriculum with a score of 4 or 5 on the AP Exam would be considered adequate preparation.

This course is offered through our partnership with Global Online Academy (GOA).

Full Year Course, 1.0 credits

This high honors class is designed for students who seek the highest level of challenge offered by the math department and who may be interested in future study of math. In Multivariable Calculus, students extend what they learned in Calculus ‘2A’ to higher dimensions. This one year course is equivalent to the last traditional semester of college Calculus.  Students will study vector algebra and functions, matrices, curves in space, arc length and curvature, and velocity and acceleration.

Minimum requirements: grade of A in Calculus ‘1A’ or completion of Calculus ‘2A’.
Seniors may take Multivariable Calculus concurrently with Linear Algebra with department approval.
Full Year Course, 1.0 credit    
Requires Preapproval

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