AMPED Algebra at West Valley Junior High

AMPED Algebra

This fall, West Valley Junior High and Freshman Campus launched a new innovative approach to Algebra through AMPED, Algebra 1 through Manufacturing Process, Entrepreneurship, and Design.  Classes will be a two period block learning experience with a team taught approach connecting a math teacher with a Career and Technical Education Teacher.

AMPED Students learn how to run and operate the business of an advanced manufacturing shop.  They will also learn how to design and build products, market and sell, while using algebraic skills.  AMPED is a real world approach to teaching algebra by allowing students to learn how math skills are embedded in their every day lives.

Learn more about AMPED here.

AMPED Students setting a design plan.

West Valley Junior High

At WVJH the inaugural AMPED class is taught by Jed Watters, Pre-Engineering, and Patrick Murphy, Math.  Students are learning Auto CAD to design wood products which will eventually be cut out on the Pre-Engineering Labs CNC Machines.  

We kicked off the year with a business/school partnership between Triumph Actuation Systems, a local aerospace manufacturing firm here in Yakima, and West Valley by getting students started on the team work process, business ethics, and basic principles of LEAN manufacturing.  Tariq Khan from Triumph worked with students connecting how the skills they learn in class are being used here in Yakima.  Students in class were learning about the 'Laws of Diminishing Returns' and how to use algebra to predict the most effective production rate. 

Tariq Khan from Triumph Actuation Systems working with AMPED Students.