6th Grade/Middle School/Pre-Algebra Math Concepts Camp - 4 Day Awesome Learning!

Students will be taught strategies that develop true, deep understanding of the concepts introduced during camp. This is a four day camp and each day will be packed with learning and brain building activities.  At the end of camp students will be given a handout to help remind them of the major ideas presented!

I will do my best to tailor the content to student interests by giving them a short survey at the beginning of the first day. I will then use the responses when finalizing 'real-world' contexts for the week to come! Our discussions will be interactive and all students will be encouraged, but not required, to ask questions and answer prompts throughout the hour. I believe that I can help students the most when I see their work and hear their thinking; so showing their thinking is imperative. But this does not mean that there is only one way to arrive at an answer! We learn from each other as we explain what our process is. 

Monday:
- Understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning to solve problems
- Understand unit rate and ratio relationships

Tuesday & Wednesday:
- Work with algebraic expressions (using variables in place of numbers)
- Write and evaluate expressions at specific variable values
- Understand solving an equation or inequality as a process of answering a question: which values generate a solution?
- Write expression and equations to solve real-world problems

Thursday:
- Review work from first three days
- Work with area of triangles and other polygons
- Find volume and surface area of prisms

All students entering this class should have a basic understanding of fifth grade math standards. In particular, they should have some fraction sense and knowledge of whole number factors and multiples. No in-depth algebra knowledge is needed to enter this camp. Students should also be familiar with their basic two dimensional shapes and a coordinate plane.