This course is an entry point for 2nd grade students who are new to our program and approach. The program is built to spur students to use logic and reasoning in order to develop strategies to calculate efficiently, and to solve multi-step word problems and logic puzzles. We incorporate students' understanding of numbers and operations and introduce the concepts of place value, variables, equations, multiplication and division, and properties and features of geometric shapes. After completing this course, students continue to our 3rd grade Advanced level.