Administrators, teachers and students gathered in N-208 at lunch on Friday to discuss math options beyond Advanced Placement Calculus BC at Gunn. The discussion came on the heels of the Sept. 12 school board meeting, where Superintendent Don Austin announced that Assistant Superintendent of Secondary...
Palo Alto Unified School District announced that Foothill Community College will be offering a concurrent-enrollment, in-person multivariable calculus section for PAUSD high school students. Classes will run at Paly on Mondays and Wednesdays from 4:45 p.m. to 7 p.m.
This announcement, on Wednesday,...
Michael Zhang, Lifestyle Editor
• September 23, 2022
Love it or hate it, math is a tool utilized far beyond classroom doors and can be applied in a wide variety of fields. Advanced Placement (AP) Calculus AB and BC are the highest level math classes available, and many seniors elect to take these college-level APs as their final math course in high school.
Senior...
She’s a teacher by day and a mom by night. Like many superheroes, math teacher Gopi Tantod lives a double life. She spends her day expounding on the mysteries of complex mathematics and stays up late into the night working on lesson plans and grading quizzes. Her afternoons, on the other hand, are...
Dave Deggeller, Instructional Lead of Mathematics
• December 20, 2019
Hey y’all, what’s the math rush?
I enjoyed reading the full page math spread in the Forum Section of The Oracle on Friday, Dec. 6. I was happy to hear that our existing math infrastructure in Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) served the two student authors, Ms. Suzani (who accelerated...
This opinion piece on our middle school mathematics program is written by two PAUSD parents, Edith Cohen and Allyson Rosen.
Superintendent Dr. Don Austin recently initiated a revisit of our middle school mathematics program amid concerns with our program’s effectiveness in supporting the...
In first grade, my dad bought my sister and me a math book. I would hole up beneath the covers with a reading light and work on problems until the sun rose. I used to sit on my mother’s lap and tell her about how my aptitude for Venn Diagram problems would qualify me for the International...
On Aug. 13, Gunn will open its doors for the 2019-20 school year, welcoming in many new teachers across several departments. With different goals and challenges they’re hoping to overcome, some coming from the district and others from across the country, each of the teachers hope to integrate...
Kathy Hawes has been a cherished math teacher since 1991, and will be leaving for Washington, D.C. with her husband at the conclusion of the 2018-19 school year, where she will continue teaching at Georgetown day school.
Hawes is relocating to Washington, D.C. for the span of one year due to her...
Teachers can be under a lot of stress sometimes, especially when they’re juggling lesson plans, recommendation letters and their own lives outside of school. For math teacher Daniel Hahn, however, one bundle of joy makes it all worth it: his one-year-old baby named Leo.
When Hahn found out...
Written by Liza Kolbasov
Among the traditional math classes offered at Gunn, one stands out: Business, Entrepreneurship and Math (BEAM), an application math course started in 2014 by math teacher Cristina Florea. This course focuses on teaching students about entrepreneurship and the real-life applications...
Written by Bridgette Gong
A combination of both passion and talent can go a long way, and for senior Jane Ahn, this certainly holds true. Ahn currently holds a spot in the top fifty for math in the nation. It began in middle school; Ahn was met with the opportunity to join the Jane Lathrop...
