• Frontier Middle School Mathematics Department

    Math
    8th Grade Math Teachers:
    Mrs. Kim Barry - (Department Chair)
    Mrs. Jennifer Betz
    Mrs. Erin Fix
    Mrs. Amanda Gerwitz 
    Mrs. Michelle Maderer (Special Education Teacher)
     
    7th Grade Math Teachers: 
    Mrs. Heidi Ansell 
    Mr. Partridge (Special Education Teacher) 
    Mrs. Heidi Margic
    Ms. Melissa Parezo 
    Mr. Phil Ceccerelli
     
    6th Grade Math Teachers: 
    Mrs. Christine Lotocki 
    Mrs. Christine Gust
    Mrs. Kelly Beller (Special Education Teacher)
    Mrs. Deborah Travis
    Mrs. Tammy Wesolek 
    Mrs. Brittany Wolfe-Keyes
     
    The Mathematics Programs at Frontier Middle School are designed to elevate the importance of mathematics, enhance professional development for teachers, and encourage students and teachers to work together.  For example, our NHJS students tutor within the building to help their peers.  We use an inclusion program where special education teachers push into the classrooms with regular education mathematics teachers and work together as a team.  Our resource teachers and math lab teachers, work with our students outside our math classrooms, have been vital to the success of FMS in helping our students not only understand math but its importance as well.  Through professional growth, all levels keep up to date and redesign curriculum as needed.

    At the sixth grade level, Frontier Middle School incorporates mathematically sound games, instead of drill sheets, to reinforce skills through the use of a research-based, effective program called "DIGITS," which web-based program adopted in the middle school 2012-2013.  We cover a wide-range of topics including but not limited to exponents, positive and negative integers, plane geometry, and a strong emphasis on algebra.  Students take unit tests at the end of each unit and a cumulative final exam in June. 

    At the seventh grade level, we have approximately 40% of our students enrolled in a program that combines the seventh and eight grade curriculums.  This allows those students to earn high school credit as eighth graders.  Using common assessments, note packets, and common planning time, we collaborate together to prepare students for their future. 

    At the eighth grade level, we have approximately 40% of our students enrolled in the high school Math 115 (Math A) program.  Our scores have continued to rise with each passing year on the Eighth Grade NYS Assessment.  Using common assessments, notes, and planning time our team works together to prepare students for the new NCLB Assessments beginning this March.