South Merrimack Christian Academy (SMCA)
Mathematics - Where it all adds up!
Welcome to the SMCA Mathematics Department Home Page!
Excerpt from the book
Mathematics: Is God Silent? by James Nickel:
Preface to the First Edition
Skeptic: “You say Christian education is different How?”
Christian: “Everything is taught from a biblical worldview.”
Skeptic: “Is that so? What about mathematics?”
Christian: (Dead silence)
How often do people engage in this type of conversation? How many
Christian parents, students, and educators are there that can articulate
a biblical approach to mathematics, or even affirm that there is such a
view? As a Christian educator, and more specifically – a mathematics
teacher, the author has been confronted with such questions time and
time again. As the result of almost a decade of research and teaching,
the author has come to the conviction that there is a distinctive,
biblical approach to mathematics; an approach that will not only convert
any skeptic, but also provide a potent motivation to anyone involved in
Christian education. The dumbfounded response of dead silence can be
turned into a dynamic declaration: the voice of God is not silent in
mathematics.
- Nickel, James, Mathematics: Is God Silent? , page xix, copyright
2001, 1990
God is not silent about mathematics, and God is included in the SMCA Mathematics education program!
For information specific to each mathematics class at SMCA, please select your class from the list on the left. I check email at least once a day, so please ask any questions if you do not find the information you are looking for!