Mathematics

The secret to learning math is starting in the right place. Too little challenge and you quickly grow bored. Too much and you quickly lose hope. Just enough and your skills and confidence skyrocket. So Kent offers a great variety of mathematics courses—twenty different ones, in fact. And many of them, like Geometry, Algebra, Trigonometry and Precalculus courses are available at up to four different levels: regular, honors, accelerated and AP.

Our offerings start with Algebra and Geometry, classes that will strengthen your ability to think logically and analytically. From there, things can ramp up considerably, again, depending on your ability. You can go all the way through AP BC Calculus, which is equivalent to a two-semester college course in Calculus, or even to Post-Calculus. There's also AP Statistics and AP Computer Science or you could even come up with your own independent study project.

And in a place that embraces technology the way Kent does, it's only natural that most math classes use a variety of computer hardware and software to enrich the classroom experience and help you visualize what you’re learning.

It’s not surprising, given Kent's competitive nature, that each year some 20% of the student body participates in the American Mathematics Competitions and more than 10% in the New England Math League. We think that the confidence to compete comes from being in the right place, at Kent, and in your math classes.