Grade 5 Accelerated

This course is an entry point for 5th grade students who are new to our program and unique approach. We focus on preparing the students for middle school with a sensible mastery of computations and order of operations with rational numbers, fractions and decimals, solving equations, and working with algebraic expressions. The curriculum emphasizes modeling when solving various types of word problems. Core concepts include: inequalities, area and volume applications, coordinate geometry, introduction to percents, elements of number theory, and data organization, algebraic expressions and solving equations. After completing this course, students continue to our 6th grade Advanced level.