MathTutor-Online

Summer 2010

Courses Offered

Prep for Alg. 2/Alg.1 review – 2 week course, 90 minute classes, Mon. thru Thurs. (8 classes/12 contact hours) – $250.00

Prep for Alg. 1/Pre Alg. review  – 2 week course, 90 minute classes, Mon. thru Thurs. (8 classes/12 contact hours) – $250.00

Middle School brush up -2 week course, 90 minute classes, meets Mon., Wed., Thurs. (6 classes/9 contact hours) – $200.00

Enrichment (all levels) – 2 week course, 90 minute classes, meets Mon., Wed., Thurs. (6 classes/9 contact hours) – $200.00

SCHEDULE:  Will be set according to need.  When contacted with an interest in a course a times and place will be scheduled that fit the needs of the students.  Two-student minimum required.

Incentives and benefits;

1. 2  hours of tutoring or homework help for next school year.
2. Sign up a friend and get your class for 50% off.
3. Take a second class this summer and get 20% off the second class.
4. Free review sheets with grading and feedback all summer, plus a list of web sites you can use at home to improve your skills.

*Scholarships are available for those in need

 Course information:

General class structure:

1. Mastery in mathematics is like working jigsaw puzzles, reading musical scores, or solving a game of clue, etc…  When you understand how all the pieces or clues fit together, you can see, understand, and appreciate the big picture.  Much of this happens in your minds eye.  When you start to see it math starts to make sense and can be enjoyable and a fun challenge. 
2. To work towards this understanding, topics will be approached from a conceptual standpoint.  What do you see/recognize?  How do they relate, how are they different, what does the answer mean or tell you,  what rules, procedures, patterns are common to different or all situations and which ones are unique?  We will spend significant time discussing and explaining topic we cover. 
3. To maximize each students experience and growth classes will be structured according to the ability level of the students attending that session.  During the first two sessions, I will access the ability of the students and adjust the curriculum accordingly.  We may all work together as one group or we may divide up do different activities.  At this time I am not planning on assigning homework other than think and study on what we have gone over that and previous days.  I will reserve the right to adjust this policy as I see a need to. 

Specific Class Content

 Middle School brush up

Concepts targeted – Number Sense, Fractions, Decimals, Percents, Probability, Parallel, Perpendicular, Area, Volume, Surface Area

Algebra I prep. /Pre-Alg. Review

Basic Math concepts targeted – Number Sense, Fractions, Decimals, Parallel, Perpendicular, Area, Volume, Surface Area

 Alg. concepts targeted – Signed Numbers, Order of Operations, Solving, Graphing, Exponents, Variables, and Distribution.

Algebra II prep. /Alg. I review

Alg. I concepts targeted – Signed Numbers, Order of Operations, Solving, Graphing, Fractions, Decimals, Exponents, Variables, Radicals, Distribution, Factoring, Linear & Quadratic Equations, Distance formula, and the Pythagorean Theorem, etc.

Additional Geometry concepts targeted – Properties of Triangles, Parallel, Perpendicular, Area, Volume, Surface Area, etc.

Enrichment/playing with numbers and ideas – might be the best class anyone takes!

Concepts targeted – Mental math, Number Sense mania, Shortcuts, Puzzles, Patterns, Transformations, Challenges and much more.