|
| |
 ™
Math Busters offers classes and/or support to teachers and students who are afraid of
mathematics. I believe the reason many people do not like math is because they do not
understand it. No one likes anything they are not good at. My convictions resonate with
study results that have shown one contributing factor to students’
underachievement in mathematics is that many of their teachers, particularly
elementary teachers, are afraid of mathematics and/or do not understand the concepts well
enough to teach them to the students.
My goal is to help students and teachers realize that math is not as scary as it seems
and is fun once one understands it. I believe all are capable of
understanding all mathematical concepts through algebra. I offer training to struggling
teachers and help them learn/teach any mathematical concepts they do not understand. I
will also offer review and preview classes for students to help them prepare for the
upcoming school year. If personal attention is needed, then private tutoring may be
necessary – see below.
 | Teacher training classes |
| Pre-algebra Preview/Review (See description below) |
| Algebra I Preview/Review (See description below) |
| Geometry Preview/Review (See description below) |
| Algebra II/Trig Preview/Review (See description
below) |
| Etc. |
| Algebra Immersion - 2 week math
immersion camps (4th – 10th grades)
 | Pre-Algebra Preview/Review (Prerequisite - must have mastered middle school math) Day 1 Review of Order of Operations & Properties
of Real Number System
Day 2 Factors, Fractions, & Decimals
Day 3 Graphing on the Coordinate System*
Day 4 Solving Basic Equations, Absolute Value
Day 5 Working with Monomials
Day 6 Solving Equations With Variables On Both Sides &
Problem Solving
Day 6 Solving Equations Using Multiplication/Division
Day 7 Formulas, Area, Perimeter, Circumference
Day 8 Solving Inequalities
Day 9 Negative Exponent
Day 10 Sequences (Arithmetic & Geometric)
|
| Algebra I Preview/Review (Prerequisite - must have mastered pre-algebra) Day
1 Review of Real Numbers (properties, fractions, etc.)
Day 2 Exponents & Radicals
Day 3 Adding & Subtracting Polynomials / Multiplying &
Dividing Polynomials
Day 4 Factoring Special Poly’s.
Day 5 Factoring Quadratics with an = 1 and an ¹ 1
Day 6 Factoring Higher Degree Polynomials/ Long Division &
Synthetic Division
Day 7 Graphing Poly’s (linear, quadratic, cubic), Absolute
values, & Inequalities/ Translations *
Day 8 Finding Roots (zeros)/ Simplifying Rational Algebraic Expressions *
Day 9 Solving Systems of Equations & of
Inequalities *
Day 10 Word Problems, Parallel & Perpendicular
Lines, Imaginary Numbers
|
| Algebra II Preview/Review (Prerequisite - must have mastered algebra I) Day
1 Review of Solving Equations with Radicals, Rational
Expressions, and Complex Numbers
Day 2 Solving Inequalities / Parallel & Perpendicular Lines
Day 3 Defining Functions; Piecewise-Defined Functions, Domain, Step
Functions
Day 4 Soving Systems of Equations Algebraically (substitution &
elimination) and Graphically
Day 5 Matrices, Solving Systems of Equations Using Matrices
Day 6 Inverse Functions, Factoring Higher Degree
Polynomials, Long & Synthetic Division, Fundamental Thm. of Algebra
Day 7 Graphing Poly’s (linear, quadratic, cubic), Absolute
values, & Inequalities/ Translations *
Day 8 Graphing Rational Functions, Asymptotes / Partial
Fractions*
Day 9 Conics
Day 10 Exponential & Logarithmic Functions
*With math labs (using computer mathematical programs)
|
|
| Geometry Immersion
| Geometry
Preview/Review Day
1 Basic Definitions (point, line, angle, segment, congruency, etc.),
Basic
Properties (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division,transitive, substitution)
Day 2 Importance and Basics
of Logic & Proofs
Day 3 Parallel &
Perpendicular Lines & Properties (Equidistance Theorem)
Day 4 Triangles
(definition, types, angle-side theorems); Congruent Polygons, CPCTC
Day 5 SSS, SAS, ASA, AAS,
HL (methods of proving triangles are congruent)
Day 6 Quadrilaterals &
Properties
Day 7 Circles;
Day 8 Polygons &
Polyhedra
Day 9 Area, Surface Area,
& Volume
Day 10 Coordinate Geometry
|
|
Call Jenna-Fleur Lin @ (303)224-0584 or email jenna4math@yahoo.com
|