🌞 Students can master grade 6 level math while they build community  

Gain confidence and relieve math anxiety  

We will use an interactive whiteboard, and these notes are sent to the student after class.  

🐟 We follow along with the Fishtank Learning curriculum (includes Common Core Standards), which is rigorous, problem-based and student-focused.  This program has an EXCELLENT track record of preparing students for college and beyond.  You can take a look at www.fishtanklearning.org. 

A TYPICAL CLASS:
- We start with a Question of the Day: discussion of non-math topic to build community
- then, the teacher introduces a new concept
- students join in and practice the concept with the teacher
- the teacher has students work individually on questions, and
   supports the students as they work on the questions
- homework practice provided after class 

I assign home practice after each class.  Those students who want to master the concepts will want to complete this work each week.  It will take about 30-45 minutes per week.  

Our lessons are divided into eight units:
Unit 1  
Understanding and Representing Ratios
Unit 2
Unit Rates and Percent
Unit 3
Multidigit and Fraction Computation
Unit 4
Rational Numbers
Unit 5
Numerical and Algebraic Expressions
Unit 6
Equations and Inequalities
Unit 7
Geometry
Unit 8 
Statistics

☀️ An important note about using Zoom and Videos: 

Students are asked to turn on their video for this class.   I provide students with opportunities to communicate and discuss their thinking.  This improves when we all have our videos on.  Seeing student's faces and body language provides me with useful information to inform instruction.  Ultimately, this shifts power away from the teacher being the possessor of knowledge to students being the constructors of it. ☀️ 

Class Interaction:
- Teacher and students share an interactive white board
- Guided notes may be provided for each class, just prior to the session
- Handouts with problem sets and answer keys are provided after each class
- Students are encouraged to participate and write on the interactive whiteboard