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Golly! I Mastered Pre-Algebra & Had Fun Practicing | Part 4 Of 6 | Decimals, Ratios, Percents, and Proportions (FLEX)

This 4-week FLEX course teaches about decimals, ratios, percentages, and proportions.
Professor Kitty BS ChemE-UVa; MBA-Case Western
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Homework
1-2 hours per week. The class is designed for the student to complete all of their work in class. Additional problems are provided for students who need additional practice for mastery.
Assessment
On the last week of each level is an assessment for the content of that level. Feel free as a homeschooled parent to use those assessments to calculate your child's grade. Or, if your learner is not homeschooled, feel free to use those assessments to benchmark how well your learner is doing. I include the assessment as part of the forth week of each level. However, if I were teaching the course to a class, this assessment would take an extra week of time for study review and proctoring. I leave that up to the parent and learner. If you feel you need an extra week, the material will still be available for you work work on through the Nearpod links, and you can simply take an extra week before signing up for the next level.
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Class Experience

US Grade 5 - 8
This 4-week FLEX course teaches about decimals, ratios, percentages, and proportions. Specifically, decimal conversions from fractions, percentages, conversations between per cents and fractions and percents and decimals, ratios, ratio equivalencies, proportions, constants of proportionality, and word problems with percentages, proportions, and ratios.

With Pre-Algebra, mastery has to be the goal. And the right teacher knows she can get your learner there. You, as a parent or as a learner, should make sure that someone beginning this class has the foundational math skills such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division and some basic understanding of fractions.

This is a FLEX class, so there are no live lessons. That makes it perfect for those who can't meet during my scheduled live classes. I often have families whose learners want to take my classes because they do well with my teaching style, but a specific class doesn't fit their schedule. They have found the flex classes not only fit the schedule, but offer many advantages and they enjoy the community that develops from our activities we do together.

Here is how it works:

Each week on Tuesday morning your learner will get assigned a weekly lesson, with part two of the lesson presented on Thursday. These lessons will be in the form of Nearpod Activity Links. Nearpod is easy to access and requires no logging in. When they hit the link, they simply put a name in - it can simply be their first name if they like. I will receive a report of their finished work.

These lessons have recorded portions where the learner will my instruction as I work through problems. During these recorded instructions, the video will pause from time to time and Nearpod will prompt the learner to answer questions about the lesson. Along with these interactive recordings are interactive games, fun mini-projects, and polls. The results of their interactions with these are received by me, the teacher, through Nearpod.

The fun mini-projects are just that - fun and mini. They won't stress out your learner, but they will get your learner posting an "I have a problem to stump you with" game.  To build a richer learning experience with the team of learners taking this class, each lesson will have a challenge to see if students can (in the spirit of positive learning) come up with great problems to solve.  Your learner will share his/her problems by saying, "I have a problem for you... will it stump you?"  We'll see who is not stumpable!!!

On Thursday morning they will receive the second of the two lessons for the week.  It will be modeled the same way as the Tuesday Nearpod lessons with  brief video recordings of me teaching and embedded places in the recording where your students can interact. Those interactions and the results of activities and games they do will be something that will generate a report for me, the teacher, so that I know they are participating and progressing.

We will repeat that cycle for each of the four weeks and have a final assessment at the end that your student will do on Nearpod. That final will be embedded into the end of the second lesson of that week. Upon completion of the assessment, I will send a final report to the parent of each learner.

The activities can be polls, games, or quizzes. I will show them the results of this poll on the classroom page so that they can discuss it and get to know each other. There are match games, timed races to answer problems, fill in the blanks, and drag and drops. 

These interactions have worked well in my FLEX classes!

The material I cover along with the content of the videos is very much like the live classes I teach on the same topic.  I have had many students and parents tell me they love my style of teaching and interacting with the students, but one of two obstacles get in the way of signing up for or staying in the live classes.  Either there is a scheduling conflict, or the student wants to move at a more accelerated classroom pace than I can do in a live class because I believe so strongly in making sure all students are reaching mastery.   With the FLEX format, students can go as fast or as slow as is appropriate for their learning needs.

I teach each concept thoroughly and with positive energy so that students stay engaged.  As I teach the content, I have the learners interact through Nearpod so that they are fully involved like they would be in a live classroom.

Links to the Nearpod meetings will be posted to the Outschool classroom page each week on Monday and again on Thursday.  The classroom page will be used for class administration discussions and any specific questions about methodology.   The other discussions and communication points will be done in Nearpod.  

Here are the topics we will cover week to week:
 
Week 1
Intro to Decimals, Place Value, Expanded, number lines
Decimals - Rounding, Comparing

Week 2
Decimals - Adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing
Ratios- Intro and Applications

Week 3
Rates and %’s, T, Fraction, Decimal Conversions
Word problems with Decimals, Ratios, and %

Week 4
Constants of proportionality/ ID’ing proportions
Solving proportions
Final Course Level Assessment

Where this class fits within my Pre-Algebra classes: 
My Pre-Algebra classes fall into 6 parts.  The first two pars focus on Integers in Equations and Expressions. These two have a violet background.  

The next two parts (parts 3 and 4) focus on Fractions, Decimals, Percents, Ratios and Proportions. These two have the dark blue background.  

The last two parts (parts 5 and 6) focus on Charts, Statistics, Exponents, and Shapes. These have the gold-colored background).

All six parts work together to form an entire Pre-Algebra year long course. Your student can complete this in as little as 24 weeks by staying with the 4 weeks per part (or they are also called levels).  But on the last week of each level is an assessment for the content of that level.  Feel free as a homeschooled parent to use those assessments to calculate your child's grade.  Or, if your learner is not homeschooled, feel free to use those assessments to benchmark how well your learner is doing.

I intentionally include the assessment as part of the forth week of each level. However, if I were teaching the course to a class, this assessment would take an extra week of time for study review and proctoring. I leave that up to the parent and learner. If you feel you need an extra week, the material will still be available for you work work on through the Nearpod links, and you can simply take an extra week before signing up for the next level.

The class is designed for the student to complete all of their work in class.  Additional problems are provided for students who need additional practice for mastery.
Learning Goals
At the end of this Flex Class, your student will be able to say:
"I can identify decimals on a number line."
"I can give place values for each digit for a decimal"
"I can round decimals"
"I can put decimals in expanded notation"
"I can compare decimals"
"I can add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals"
"I understand ratios and how they are applied"
"I can use ratios to determine rates
"I can apply percentages to a word problem"
"I can convert a percentage to a fraction or decimal and back to percentages again."
"I can do word problems with decimals, fractions, ratio's and percents."
"I understand proportions and constants of proportionality."
""I can solve problems with proportions."
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Parental Guidance
Your student should be comfortable with standard elementary math concepts using operations and fractions.
Supply List
Paper, pencil, and a brain ready for thinking fun!
External Resources
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
  • Nearpod
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Teacher expertise and credentials
South Carolina Teaching Certificate
South Carolina Teaching Certificate in Science
South Carolina Teaching Certificate in Mathematics
Master's Degree from Case Western Reserve University
Bachelor's Degree in Science from University of Virginia
I've been certified in the public schools for teaching math in middle and high schools. I received additional certified training for gifted and talented learners. I taught math for sixteen years and I've been a personal SAT tutor for seven years. My students have typically raised their scores between 100 and 300 points.  As a chemical engineer and project management professional in the world of business consulting and information technology consulting, I've completed over five levels of college calculus and applied mathematics and used these math and computing skills throughout my career.  

The students I have taught had varying learning abilities that ranged from one with pronounced learning disabilities to gifted and talented. When it came to PSAT's and SAT's, each of them with impressive improvements in their scores. 

It can be done!  I used a focused approach. We honed in on trouble areas, really understood the underlying math concept, and drilled for mastery.

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Ages: 10-14

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