The Blue & Gold

The official newspaper of Chamblee High School, preserving the past for the future today!

The official newspaper of Chamblee High School, preserving the past for the future today!

The Blue & Gold

The official newspaper of Chamblee High School, preserving the past for the future today!

The Blue & Gold

Dorrill sits at her desk at the beginning of a new school day.

Beloved Math Teacher to Retire: Dorrill to Close Out Career

Toby Russell, Editor April 22, 2022

This year, Chamblee students are watching some of their nearest and dearest teachers and staff retire. One such case is with Kelley Dorrill, teacher of freshman math, largely geometry and algebra. Dorrill...

A BC Calculus student working hard on his homework.

Math Department 2.0

Foster Cowan, Thomas Rice, and Keegan Brooks February 1, 2022

Back to the Course Catalog here. Calculus The plainly-named calculus is a class mostly populated by upperclassmen who have already taken precalculus. It is the least rigorous of the three calculus classes...

The Math Curriculum is Changing. Will You be Affected?

The Math Curriculum is Changing. Will You be Affected?

Shea Parker, Staff Writer September 23, 2021

The Georgia Board of Education has decided to get rid of their Common Core math standards. But what will these changes and new standards mean for students and teachers at Chamblee? “They're changing...

Stop Teaching Our Students to Fear Math

Stop Teaching Our Students to Fear Math

Catherine Cossaboom, Editor January 10, 2020

Last week, I listened to a podcast on NPR’s TED Radio Hour called “Don’t Fear Math,” a program intended to raise awareness about what math can do for all of us and to address what we’re doing...

Nate Berryman Steps Up to the Plate

Alice Bai, Editor-in-chief August 23, 2016

Nate Berryman is an athlete, a coach, and most recently, a math teacher at Chamblee. “I went to Berry College in Rome [Georgia] and played there for four years. Right after that I got into Legion...

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