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Math

Directors of STEM

Director of STEM K-5

Cara Hovhanessian

email: chovhanessian@maldenps.org

Director of STEM 6-12

Dr. Douglas Dias

email: ddias@maldenps.org

Math Staff Directory

The goal of the Mathematics Department is for students to learn mathematical structure, concepts, critical thinking, and problem solving. These skills will help prepare them for life and career readiness, in addition to future academic success.  A sound mathematics background will have a positive influence on students’ decisions to prepare them for future occupations.  

While the mathematics Content Standards change from one grade to the other, the mathematics practice standards stay the same for grades K -12 and are as follows:

  • make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
  • reason abstractly and quantitatively
  • construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
  • model with mathematics
  • use appropriate tools strategically
  • attend to precision
  • look for and make use of structure
  • look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Curriculum Overview