Say farewell to math drills and hello to math skills! This spiral math program focuses on deep-level understanding and integrated concept practice so that your student can master math without lectures or boring homework. 

Course Description: This course presents essential math concepts through a spiral curriculum that starts from what the student already knows and builds new concepts in a progression of small logical steps. 

Each week begins with the opening lesson for the week (30 minutes) during which the teacher introduces the math concept through teacher-led active learning. After class, students finish the lesson by working out 3-5 practice problems on their own. Detailed plans are provided for the three remaining lessons for the week, and parents will guide their students through the exercises using the instructions for each activity. 

This approach means that students should spend 45 minutes per day doing math for 4 days each week, including the live class time at the start of the week. Outside of this time, there is no additional homework, drills or memorization.

By the end of Part One and Part Two of this course, students should have mastered math concepts taught in 3rd- or 4th-grade math curricula. Students will be able to:

• Understand and solve simple equations (add, subtract, multiply, and divide numbers up to 1,000; understand and calculate half, quarters, thirds, eights, etc. of simple quantities

• Have instant recall of multiplication facts up to 10 x 10

• Understand and use divisors, factors, and multiples

• Understand the order of operation and recognize the need for parenthesis in complex calculations

• Round numbers to the nearest 10 or 100

• Understand basic units of metric measurement, US money, and time (km, cm, mm, kg, g, L, cl, ml; $ and ¢, use a 12- or 24-hour clock and know seconds, minutes, hours, days weeks, months, years)

• Understand the concept of negative numbers in context

• Calculate the perimeter and area of a rectangle with lengths given as natural numbers, fractions or decimals

Parents need to review the "homework" together with students as guided by the prompts in the lesson plan.

ADDITIONAL VIDEOS RECORDED BY MRS. CORREIRA FOR ALL 36 WEEKLY LESSONS IN PART 2

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 Instructor: Kris Correira