October 11, 2008
Students discussing a problem in advanced integrated mathematics
Talk to Exeter students about math and you'll hear a lot about problem solving and confidence building, along with secants and cosines. Exeter's method of teaching math – using problem sets authored by faculty, not textbooks – is at the heart of the excitement.
A typical mathematics class starts with students writing solutions to problems on the board. The entire class then discusses each of the problems – providing insights, asking questions and often developing new solutions collaboratively.
"The structure of the Exeter math program is different from the way textbooks present math," explains Natalie
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