Mathletes

Goals: 

• To stimulate enthusiasm and a love for Mathematics
• To teach major strategies for problem solving
• To develop flexibility in solving problems
• To strengthen Mathematical intuition
• To foster creativity and ingenuity
• To provide for the satisfaction, joy, and thrill of meeting challenges
• To learn to work effectively on a small team
• To cultivate risk taking and tenacity
  

Our philosophy: Your brain is like a muscle - you have to use it to make it stronger. Mathletes will be solving challenging problems every week in practice. 

Our Curriculum:  Our proprietary curriculum is available online and through print-outs. As a result, students have the opportunity to tackle fun challenges throughout the week in practice AND at home.  We have organized problems into progressively more difficult problem sets. This gives Mathletes multiple opportunities to feel successful. All answers can be processed online, giving students immediate feedback.

Math Competitions: Competitions do a fantastic job creating fun problems. They are often visual in nature, and are usually very different from what you find in a typical school setting. We do not approach competitions as a high-stakes endeavor. The goal is to have fun and try to solve some interesting - and challenging - problems.

Math Olympiad:  During the 'Olympiad Season' (Nov-March), students participate in 5 Math Olympiads during our regularly scheduled practices. Our team will be in Division E (4th, 5th, and 6th graders).  Students also participate in Junior Olympiads authored by Coach K.  

Math Kangaroo: Students are encouraged to sign up for Math Kangaroo. This competition takes place once a year. We will practice on problems throughout the school year. 

Fan4: This is a proprietary online math competition founded and authored by Coach K. 

Puzzles & Games: Almost every week we will take an excursion and explore a logic puzzle, math game, building challenge, or topic from graph theory. This enables students to further develop their spatial intelligence, capacities for deductive reasoning and pattern recognition, number sense, and more.  

Registration: We have in-person and online classes throughout the week.

There is so much to the world of math that kids don't see in school! In our classes, your kids will discover that math is visual, hands-on, and FUN! In our classes students will:

* Develop their spatial intelligence, number sense, pattern recognition, and modeling skills using linking cubes.

* Develop problem solving skills with engaging questions from Math Kangaroo and other in-house math competitions.

* Cultivate deductive reasoning by systematically solving different types of puzzles (Japanese Logic Puzzles, Algebra puzzles, etc).

* Practice their fluency and develop intuition for probability through games involving cards and dice.

Our ultimate goal is to help students build their confidence and cultivate a love for math. The world of mathematics is much broader than many realize. It is visual, fun, and engaging. Come and see for yourself!