❕Note: This private tutoring experience is offered exclusively during the summer - June through August. Need extra Math support throughout the school year? Check out my course: "(School Year) Middle School Math - Individualized Tutoring & Flexible Curriculum!"
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Let's help your child review, rebuild, and even extend upon middle school math skills, grow as a logical thinker, and support their confidence as a mathematician along the way! Whether your child will be entering middle school for the first time next school year or they have just wrapped up their final year of middle school by the start of summer, the tutoring curriculum within this course has been designed to focus on building core middle school math skills applicable to a variety of grade levels and courses as well as offering flexibility to you and your child in selecting units that best fit their learning journey, needs, and interests. 

Throughout this 30-minute one-to-one private tutoring experience, your learner will receive individualized support from Ms. Ashley during each session in a way that best fits their strengths, needs, and current learning level or style as well as their short or long term math goals set by themselves and you in preparation for their new school year and upcoming math course.

🏆Ms. Ashley’s goals throughout tutoring are to (a) provide your learner with a variety of engaging, interactive learning tools and practice sets to support their understanding and review of previously learned math concepts, (b) share multiple representations and additional reteach explanations of skills that they may need extra support with, (c) use a variety of flexible solving methods to show them multiple ways to achieve logical answers, and (d) constantly encourage their confidence and growth as a learner! Although this class can be booked both as a one-time meeting or an ongoing recurring session, learners who meet with Ms. Ashley regularly will also experience frequent spiral reviews of previously practiced skills as an important tool to continue building knowledge and revisiting related skills even while learning new ones.
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📑During each tutoring session, your learner will participate in the following learning activities with the support of Ms. Ashley along the way. Each activity will be tailored to meet your learner’s specific goals and will also be aligned to their former and upcoming grade level math curriculum. 

☑️(Tutoring Activity 1) Guided Lesson - For the first 10 minutes of class, students will explore a guided, skill-specific lesson led by Ms. Ashley. Each lesson will be reflective of one of the skills included within the curriculum unit that you and your child choose before our first session together (*see curriculum unit options below). Guided lessons will incorporate interactive virtual tools or online textbooks shared with students at the beginning of the session within which they can collaborate with Ms. Ashley during the learning process and have direct access to learning resources throughout the session.

☑️(Tutoring Activity 2) Monitored Practice - During the next 10 minutes of class, students will have the opportunity to explore what they have learned (with additional teacher support as needed) by immediately practicing their new skill using interactive virtual practice tools. Such practice sites may include (but are not limited to) Desmos, Khan Academy, IXL, and/or SplashLearn. Virtual practice tools will be intentionally selected by Ms. Ashley to best support student practice, allow for solving collaboration between teacher and student, and also provide your child with immediate feedback as they solve.

☑️(Tutoring Activity 3) Independent Practice - For the final 10 minutes of class, students will have the opportunity to demonstrate their independent understanding of the session's new skill(s) by playing a skill-based virtual game using such platforms as ABCya!, Kahoot, and/or Gimkit. This provides students with a fun way to test their knowledge of the current skills and allows Ms. Ashley to see what progress has been made and what may still need to be revisited during the next session. 
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Upon registering for this course, you and your child will have the flexibility to choose the curriculum unit(s) you would like your child to focus on throughout this summer tutoring experience. Regardless of the unit you choose, each lesson within the unit will follow the session structure above during each meeting. I encourage you to select the unit(s) that provide your child with the best review of skills they have previously struggled with or will help them extend their readiness and sharpen skills for their upcoming math course next school year.

📚Unit 1: The Number System (14 lessons)
Types of Numbers and the Number Line
Positive and Negative Numbers
Absolute Value
Factors and Greatest Common Factor
Multiples and Least Common Multiple
Fraction Basics and Adding & Subtracting Fractions
Multiplying and Dividing Fractions
Adding and Subtracting Decimals
Multiplying Decimals
Dividing Decimals
Adding Positive and Negative Numbers
Subtracting Positive and Negative Numbers
Multiplying and Dividing Positive and Negative Numbers
Inequalities

📚Unit 2: Ratios, Proportions, & Percents (8 lessons)
Ratios
Unit Rate and Unit Price
Proportions
Percent
Percent Word Problems
Calculating Sales Tax
Calculating Discounts and Markups
Tables and Ratios

📚Unit 3: Expressions, Equations, & Functions (13 lessons)
Expressions
Properties of Operations
Like Terms
Order of Operations
Equations
Solving for Variables
Solving Multistep Equations
Solving and Graphing Inequalities
Word Problems with Equations and Inequalities
The Coordinate Plane
Relations, Lines, and Functions
Slope
Proportional Relationships and Graphs

📚Unit 4: Geometry (14 lessons)
Geometry Basics
Angles
Quadrilaterals and Area
Triangles and Area
Circles, Circumference, and Area
Three-Dimensional Figures and Cross Sections
Volume of Rectangular & Triangular Prisms
Volume of Pyramids
Surface Area
Angles, Triangles, and Transversal Lines
Similar Figures and Scale Drawings
Polygons and the Coordinate Plane
Translations and Reflections
Rotations and Dilations

📚Unit 5: Statistics & Probability (8 lessons)
Statistics Basics
Calculating Median, Mode, and Range
Calculating Mean (Average)
Line Plots
Histograms
Box and Whisker Plots
Scatter Plots
Two-Way Tables

❔Does your child need help with a specific summer math assignment or curriculum intentionally assigned by their former or upcoming math teacher? I'm happy to help! Feel free to forego the unit selection above, and we can work directly on your child's school-specific assignment or summer curriculum together.
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☑️ I am so hopeful for the opportunity to support your child in strengthening their math skills this summer! If you choose to enroll in this course, please follow these next steps to ensure readiness for our first session together.

1) Review the unit options above and select one or two units (out of the five listed above) that you would like your child to receive support with throughout these summer sessions.

2) Send me a message prior to our first session together including your child's first name, their upcoming grade level, your choice of one or two units (out of the five listed above) to be covered during tutoring, and any learner details, needs, or tutoring goals you would like me to know prior to our upcoming sessions.

❔Not sure which unit to choose? No worries! I can begin our first session with a brief assessment to determine your child's math strengths and areas for growth and then make my best recommendation to you accordingly!


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