2023-02-102023-02-10Academics News, Newsletter

Featured Academic News of the Week

February 10, 2023
Mr. Ray Chen, Math and Science and Integrated Math and Science Teacher

We started our journey of computer science education in our middle school and high school back in August last year. What we have right now is integrated biology and computer science for 9th/10th graders. In addition to that, we have 8th grade’s physical science integrated with computer science too.

This semester, based on positive feedback regarding computer science, we’re piloting 6th grade math integration with computer science. By doing that, 6 graders not only learned, for example, prime factorization using pencil and paper. They will be able to “teach” computers how to do prime factorization by writing codes in JavaScript. In the near future, all of our middle schoolers and our high schoolers will be able to program an APP for a concept learned from all level science classes and math classes.

And on a final note, “Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.”- Albert Einstein

2023-01-312023-01-31Academics News, Newsletter

Featured Academic Class of the Week – Integrated Sciences

October 6, 2022
Mr. Ray Chen, Math and Science Teacher

Starting this school year, our innovative Integrated Science curriculum aims to incorporate computer science and data science into our core scientific subjects, such as physical science, biology, and physics. Students are learning these subjects while using computers to build models, simulate results, and analyze the resulting data. For example, our “Integrated Science – Bio Focus” class is working on reproducing current Australia’s rabbit crisis using JavaScript. Students code this real world problem of “breed like rabbits” by randomly simulating 3-4 liters per year and 1-12 babies per litter per doe rabbit. Another coding project my math students are working on is using repetition to tell if a number is prime. The manual process of telling prime is tedious but JavaScript only needs 8 lines to take input and give output, true/false of prime. Students not only build up their coding skills but also get the important sense that their future careers may benefit from computer science and data science.