Students will delve deeply into number sense in a hands-on way using physical or printable Montessori manipulatives, creating a firm mathematical foundation for numbers 1-999.  Students who understand math learn to love math, and I want my students to experience math in a hands-on way where they know they can try new things, make mistakes, and learn from them.  Each class begins with a routine-oriented calendar time to help build number fluency, confidence, and class relationships.   Fun games, songs, and mathematical conversations help engage students and give them a natural way to apply concepts.  We work with place value, addition and subtraction with and without regrouping (static and dynamic addition), skip counting, patterns, fractions, telling time, money, data and graphing, probability, basic multiplication, geometry, and measurement.  Students need to have the actual manipulatives with them (or a printable version) as we work through these together.  There is a second camera used in class to show the teacher's table so that the students are guided through problems step by step, working toward independence.  This summer class is best used as a review of kindergarten or first grade math.  For beginning kindergartners, please enroll in a section that begins in August when the class restarts from the beginning, running from the end of August until May. 

End of May: 
Extend graphing and probability content with a sports theme. 

June:
Reviewing key skills like dynamic addition, subtraction, skip counting and more with an ocean life theme. 

July:
Hands-on project: Design an ice cream shop

August:
Reviewing and going deeper with problem solving with a rainforest theme. 

Most students either move on to Level B (https://outschool.com/classes/hands-on-montessori-inspired-advanced-math-level-b-2x-a-week-with-manipulatives-fmbkSDsB?usid=6msWnIQO&signup=true&utm_campaign=share_activity_link) or restart Level A, depending on progress.  The class restarts in late August. 

Class Policies:
-All students need to have either printable or physical versions of the manipulatives needed for class to fully participate.
-I prefer videos on and students are often able to tilt their screens to show what they are working on at their tables.
-I prefer students stay unmuted to help with participation, but sometimes, due to background noise or static from a connection, 
 I may need to mute students.  
-I am happy to share recordings for missed classes.  
-The students and I try very hard to create a supportive and respectful learning community. 

Specific plans for the first 4 weeks:

Week of May 20th: 
Design a favorite sports survey and survey friends/family for next week
Complete sports-related probability experiment

Week of May 27th:
Combine class sports survey data to create a graph
Discuss the benefits and challenges in how our survey worked

Week of June 3rd:
Solve dynamic addition story problems about deep sea animals
Roll skip counting dice to practice counting and relate to probability/fractions

Week of June 10th:
Solve dynamic subtraction problems about sea turtles
Use pattern blocks to design a sea creature; Count and graph the blocks used