Various math classes will abandon textbooks this school year and transition to iPads and online resources instead.

Last year, all CP geometry classes used iPads instead of textbooks, and all honors geometry classes will make the transition this year. The movement towards education with iPads will help create a new learning process that will benefit the students.

All freshmen and sophomores will receive iPads this year. Although these underclassmen will have the iPads in all their classes, teachers will determine the iPad’s use based on the teacher’s comfort level with the technology, according to Eric Hamilton, assistant principal of curriculum and instruction.

The usage of iPads will change the learning style of the students and give students more responsibility of their own learning, Rachel Schnek, math teacher, said.

“In high school, I was used to learning from a textbook and this change will make it more on their end. The students will have to take more responsibility instead of just sitting back and taking notes,” Schneck said. “I have to change [my] approach and make it more on their end. Students have to be more active in the classroom instead of taking down notes and saying ‘I’ll look at those later.’”

Using online resources and iPads will be beneficial for math students because textbooks can quickly become outdated and students will be getting more up-to-date information, according to Schneck.

“Education is changing and that’s why we’re moving more towards iPads. Books get outdated really quickly. With math, maybe not as often as with other subjects, textbooks get outdated very often,” Schneck said. “With common core, it’s meant to be more hands-on and discovery based. We want students to explore and find out things on their own because it makes it more meaningful. That’s a lot more difficult to capture with a textbook.”