Welcome!
The Lakewood High School Mathematics Department wants all students to gain comfort and competence in math. Our goal is to give all students an appreciation for the usefulness of math in meeting the challenges of the 21st century.
Not all students bring the same level of ability, interest, or grounding to high school, however. For this reason, the department offers classes and individual instruction that will help students get up to speed. Strong math students can take advantage of AP math classes, and the Math Department participates in the IB program, as well.
The department also encourages participation in the Colorado Math League competitions, and other activities. Math can be fun! But sometimes it takes a little extra effort to make it so.
Announcements
Colorado Math League Contests
"Over 1 million students from the United States and Canada participate in Math League Contests each year. Every contest has questions from different areas of mathematics. The goal is to encourage student interest and confidence in mathematics through solving worthwhile problems."
There is a deadline for registration. Start planning now! For more details, visit the Colorado Math League web site or ask your math teacher.
The tests are at 7:10 in the morning, preceded by donuts and orange juice. The dates for 2008-09are:
Oct 21
Nov 18
Dec 9
Jan 13
Feb 24
Mar 25
Resources
Math-related Sites
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| MathSearch |
This page enables you to search a collection of over 200,000 documents on English-language mathematics and statistics servers across the Web. Most of the material is research-level and university mathematics. |
| American Mathematical Society |
"The American Mathematical Society was founded in 1888 to further mathematical research and scholarship." All of its journals are available online by subscription. Site also has a page devoted to math on the web, featuring links to many useful math sites. |
| Mathematical Association of America |
This organization's primary emphasis is collegiate math and math teaching. Site has a Resources section with a Student Corner and Reading list, as well as information about math competitions. |
| The Math Forum Student Center |
Part of The Math Forum @ Drexel, a resource for students and teachers of math. The Student Center features weekly and monthly challenges, the Ask Dr. Math section for help with math problems, and math tips and tricks, among many other useful pages. And the Geometry Problems and Puzzles pages are a gas! |
| The Math League |
"The Math League is dedicated to bringing challenging mathematics materials to students. The Math League specializes in math contests, books, and computer software designed to stimulate interest and confidence in mathematics for students from the 4th grade through high school." |
Northern Illinois University Department of Mathematical Sciences
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NIU's math department web site. As you can imagine, it has lots of information pertaining to the department itself, but it also contains links to math departments at major universities in the Midwest (for you college-bound seniors), as well as a huge list of math-related web sites. |
| Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics |
"Applied mathematics, in partnership with computational science, is essential in solving many real-world problems, from modeling physical, chemical, and biomedical phenomena; to designing engineered parts, structures, and systems to optimize performance; to planning and managing financial and marketing strategies; to understanding and optimizing manufacturing processes; and many others." Site offers subscription access to journals online, as well as text books and other publications. |
Math Software
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| CTAN |
The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network. A TeX archive online. |
| Classroom Technology GWU Department of Mathematics |
A page from George Washington University's math department web site. It has links to their classroom technology page, their graphing calculator page, and the official TI calculator home page. |
| The MathWorks |
The developers of MATLAB®. "MATLAB integrates mathematical computing, visualization, and a powerful language to provide a flexible environment for technical computing." |
| Waterloo Maple Inc. |
Devolopers of the Maple system, "an advanced, mathematical problem solving and programming environment." |
| Wolfram Research |
Creators of Mathematica® and webMathematica®. These are powerful technical computing systems that can perform symbolic calculations in algebra, calculus, differential equations, and higher mathematics as well as create detailed two and three dimensional visualizations. |
