We will study the mathematics of chess, checkers, card games, baseball, football and even business negotiations. We will use traditional methods and invent our own, using statistics, probability and other mathematics. Students learn best when they construct their own mathematical understanding. This quote from the U.S. Dept. of Education sums up how students will learn geometry in this course. You will use all your thinking skills to invent, investigate and make connections about geometry properties.
Students use laboratory equipment to gain real-life knowledge of chemistry.
Experiments introduce such concepts as acid-base chemistry,synthesis, purification and analysis, crystallization, distillation, stoichiometry etc. Agreat first course for students in the laboratory. We use different micro-organisms in a variety of lab exercises to illustrate fundamental principles of microbiology, as well as more advanced techniques used by molecular biologists. In a series of hands-on laboratory experiences, students explore the earth concentrating on the study of New Jersey natural resources, including important rocks, minerals, soils and water. Other celestial phenomena near the earth, as well as in deep space, will be examined.