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Summer Learning Loss Research

Ahh, the joys of summer. . .sand between your toes, a tall glass of frosty lemonade, the TI-83 Plus scientific calculator. . . Let’s face it – math is probably not many kids’ favorite subject, but research shows that students who practice skills over the summer break have greater success when school starts again. A Johns Hopkins study found that students lose approximately 2.6 months of grade level equivalency in mathematical computation skills during the summer months, and that teachers must spend approximately 4-6 weeks re-teaching material to students who have experienced such a learning loss. Counteract brain drain and have your child doing long division, fractions, geometry and more single-handedly with our Number Crunch classes!

Number Crunch classes were designed by a certified middle-school math teacher to make math concepts accessible to even the most math-phobic students and to enhance and improve upon existing math skills for all students. Small class sizes, hands-on lessons and enthusiastic instruction help to make math downright FUN for middle-schoolers. Courses are available for both 7th and 8th grade students, and both classes will work the TI-83 Plus graphing calculator.

Curriculum includes:

• Areas of Shapes
  
  
• 2-Dimensional Visualization
  
  
• Fraction Word Problems
  
  
• Fraction, Percent, and Area
  
  
• Ratios
  
  
• Angle Measurements
  
  
• Geometric Analysis
  
  
• Equate Math Game
  

• Manipulation of Geometric formulas for triangles, parallelograms, circles, and trapezoids when calculating Area, Perimeter, & Volume
  
  
• Graphing Calculator applications with the TI-83 Plus
  
  
• Patterns and predictions with fractions
  
  
• Modeling operations with fractions
  
  
• Probability (Experimental vs. Theoretical)
  

• Patterns and predictions of volume and surface area
  
  
• Integers
  
  
• Exponents
  
  
• Square roots
  
  
• Area Probability