Year-Round Course Summary
Students master powerful mental multiplication and division techniques with whole numbers, decimals and fractions. Students gain an understanding of factors, primes, squares, square roots and probability.
Course Requirements
Prior to joining this course, students should be able to:
- Compute multi-digit multiplication
- Long divide with single digit divisors
- Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators
Course Content (Units are 4-6 weeks)
Unit 1 - Mastery of fractions including addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
Unit 2 - Solving word problems using bar diagrams
Unit 3 - Greatest common factor and least common multiples
Unit 4 - In-depth geometry of triangles and quadrilaterals
Unit 5 - Area, volume, and surface area of 2D and 3D shapes
Unit 6 - Mastery of decimals including addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
Unit 7 - Ratios, unit rates, proportions and unit conversions
Unit 8 - Introduction to graphing, exponents, and order of operations
