The mathematics curriculum gives students solid grounding in basic skills and concepts as well as the opportunity to explore several areas of mathematics in addition to the requirements of Algebra 1, Geometry and Algebra 2.
Alternative courses offer electives to help students prepare for the advanced study of mathematics.
More than 95 percent of Hawken students elect to study mathematics for four years. Hawken mathematics instructors feel that mathematics education should be concerned with both process and outcome, there being many valid approaches to a given solution. The entire faculty strives to teach students how to attack questions and problems in all levels of our curriculum. In addition, problem solving is formally taught as a trimester elective. Students also have the opportunity to exhibit their skills in this area during various levels of interscholastic mathematics competitions.