This course serves as an entry point for 3rd grade students who are new to our program and unique 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 build a deep understanding and foundation in concepts including the order of operations, properties of operations, fractions, and algebraic expressions and equations. After completing this course students continue to our 4th grade Advanced level.