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The math department will integrate new Algebra and Geometry textbooks next school year.

New math textbooks to be implemented in 2024-2025 school year

Alec Guan May 16, 2024

Following California’s mandate to reevaluate textbooks every seven years, the school’s math department has chosen Big Ideas Math as the textbook provider for the Algebra I, Geometry and Algebra II...

The in-person Saratoga High School team receives medals for scoring fourth place overall.

Math team places fourth in Stanford Tournament

Nika Svizhenko and Lawson Wang April 29, 2024

The Stanford Math Tournament (SMT), which takes place every year in April, is a team-based math competition for high school students. Only one team from Saratoga High attended SMT, placing fourth overall.  SMT...

AMC 12A questions leaked resulting in a disaster for the math community.

AMC 12A test leak underscores new era of low-risk, high-reward cheating

Florence Hu and Alan Cai January 30, 2024

It was lunchtime on Nov. 4 at the Berkeley Math Tournament (BMT), a competition where 700 of the most promising young mathematicians  participate as teams through four rounds of group and individual...

Nikhil Mathihalli and Aiden Ye

Pickett retires after 9 years of teaching math at the school

Nikhil Mathihalli and Aiden Ye May 20, 2022

After nine years of teaching at the school, math teacher Meghan Pickett will retire at the end of the school year. Pickett began her career as a math teacher at Shoreline Middle. After three years of...

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