Mathematics & Computer Science
Courses in mathematics & computer science help students discover and appreciate the power, logic, and beauty of mathematics. At all levels of math, students explore and study functions, iteration and recursion, transformations, proof and reasoning, algebraic properties and notation, statistics, and shape and space.
Resources and Technology
- The Math Team is a co-curricular activity that competes against other schools.
- The Math Club offers peer tutoring and other activities.
- In addition to Coding classes, the App Club is a great way to build technical solutions for everyday problems.
New students must take a placement test before enrolling in a math course.
Students are required to own the Texas Instruments TI-36X calculator.
Meet Faculty Members
Euclid to Einstein Scholars Program
The Euclid to Einstein Scholars Program launched in the summer of 2025 as an opportunity for Hotchkiss students to study the history of math, science, and technology. The inaugural program took place at Cornell University in June through a unique partnership with its world-class math library and Science and Technology Studies Department.
Twelve upper-mid students and three instructors conducted research into math- and science-related topics, and they worked directly with mathematicians and math librarians while at Cornell. Students selected a mathematician or a physicist whose life and work they admired. Through guest lecturers and world-class faculty from Cornell, students explored vectors and matrices, “re-invented” complex numbers, and learned Taylor Series expansion and the famous Euler’s formula, among other concepts.
These student scholars will enroll in an honors course in their senior year and complete a substantial research project based on their summer work.