San Mateo Union High School District offers high school level math courses that strive to adhere to the principles of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSS-M), especially those around focus, coherence, and rigor. Our courses prepare students for college, careers, and/or civic life by teaching mathematical understanding, fluency, critical thinking, and analysis. We also offer various support classes along with extension opportunities at each of our campuses, allowing all of our students a rich and appropriate mathematics education.

California Standards in Math

Curriculum Framework (for respective content area)

Algebra I

Intensive Algebra I

Geometry

Integrated Math I

Algebra II

Integrated Math 2

Finite Math and Statistics

Precalculus

Advanced Placement Statistics

• College Board Description

Advanced Placement Calculus AB

This course is an official College Board Advanced Placement (AP) Calculus AB course. It follows the rigor and course overview of Advanced Placement Calculus AB: AP Calculus AB is roughly equivalent to a first semester college calculus course devoted to topics in differential and integral calculus. The AP course covers topics in these areas, including concepts and skills of limits, derivatives, definite integrals, and the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. The course teaches students to approach calculus concepts and problems when they are represented graphically, numerically, analytically, and verbally, and to make connections amongst these representations. Students learn how to use technology to help solve problems, experiment, interpret results, and support conclusions.

Advanced Placement Calculus BC

This course is an official College Board Advanced Placement (AP) Calculus BC course. It follows the rigor and course overview of Advanced Placement Calculus BC: AP Calculus BC is roughly equivalent to both first and second semester college calculus courses and extends the content learned in AB to different types of equations and introduces the topic of sequences and series. The AP course covers topics in differential and integral calculus, including concepts and skills of limits, derivatives, definite integrals, the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, and series. The course teaches students to approach calculus concepts and problems when they are represented graphically, numerically, analytically, and verbally, and to make connections amongst these representations. Students learn how to use technology to help solve problems, experiment, interpret results, and support conclusions.

Advanced Placement Computer Science A

This course is an official overview Board Advanced Placement (AP) Computer Science A course. It follows the rigor and course description of Advanced Placement Computer Science A: AP Computer Science A is equivalent to a first-semester, college-level course in computer science. The course introduces students to computer science with fundamental topics that include problems solving, design strategies and methodologies, organization of data (data structures), approaches to processing data (algorithms), analysis of potential solutions, and the ethical and social implications of computing.The course emphasizes both object-oriented and imperative problem solving and design using Java language. These techniques represent proven approaches for developing solutions that can scale up from small, simple problems to large, complex problems.

(Various other support and extension classes also available on each campus)