Why This Class
Note: This class is offered as both a Classic course and Honors course. Honors Math is for highly engaged students who like to think deeply and challenge themselves. Honors students will engage with a weekly project, reading, problem of the week, or research topic that will help them dive deeper into the subject and think more critically. These weekly WAM also provides students with an opportunity to explain their deep thinking and push past procedural math to a more complete, conceptual understanding.
Why This Class
As a parent, you want your student to hone the skill of making smart decisions. Both algebra and geometry promote logical thinking skills that help adults make wise financial choices and intelligently analyze news reports. This course integrates lessons from both branches of math to bring your student’s judgment to a new level, in math and everyday life.
Mentors in this course introduce students to exponential properties and help them extend the core concepts of arithmetic to polynomials—and then apply it all to real-life scenarios. Students use geometry to explore the mathematical characteristics of solids, circles, and conic sections. With the help of math tutors as needed, they also use the principles of exponential growth and decay to answer practical questions.
By the end of this course, students round out their foundational skills in algebra and feel prepared to take on more advanced studies. Most importantly, they gain a more logical mindset that equips them to make better decisions every day.