The middle school mathematics program at Cary Academy is an ambitious program. Our goal is to prepare students to use mathematics effectively in situations where quantitative analysis is needed. The program strives to show students how mathematics is applicable not only in school but also in their lives outside of the school setting. Students are exposed to and expected to learn substantive mathematics and to "regularly engage in thoughtful activities tied to their emerging capabilities of finding and imposing structure, conjecturing and verifying, thinking hypothetically, comprehending cause and effect, and abstracting and generalizing" (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics). The program also gives the students a solid foundation for the mathematics program in the Upper School. (See Pathway for Math, which requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

The ten standards of school mathematics that are part of every math course in the middle school program are: number and operations, algebra, geometry, measurement, data analysis and probability, problem solving, reasoning and proof, communication, connections, and representation.