Fall Math Classes Prep

I may only teach four live class­es with Scio each year, but I con­tin­ue to learn along­side your stu­dents in all of our class­es. Just because you may plan to have your child try log­ic does­n’t mean she won’t have help. I field ques­tions in all of our math class­es every year, and every year I get excit­ed to dive into log­ic and geom­e­try with my self-paced stu­dents. Don’t be ner­vous about try­ing some­thing new with your child. Try out a self-paced online course. Down­load the syl­labus, which is a sug­gest­ed sched­ule, access the lessons, email ques­tions, and sub­mit your assess­ments to me! Learn­ing how to nav­i­gate and learn in an online space isn’t easy and for some stu­dents the low pres­sure of a self-paced course is just what they needed. 

You can take any of the cours­es as self-paced, even the live ones. Sim­ply progress through the mate­r­i­al at your pace.  So, if you’re reg­is­tered for a live class con­sid­er adding a self-paced course for a sib­ling or as a sup­ple­men­tal course. Log­ic, for exam­ple, pairs nice­ly with any of the mid­dle and high school math classes. 

If you’ve chosen to join me for my live classes, make sure you’re ready with these 7 simple steps: 

1. signup for Scio Acad­e­my Math Mas­ters Mem­ber­ship — just $25 per month for the entire family.
2. go to the logis­tics unit (first one in list) in the course sites of the class­es you want your child to attend
3. add your stu­den­t’s email to the course email list
4. down­load and print the course syl­labus — check syl­labus for first day assign­ment ( only AOPS alge­bra has a pre assignment)
5. pur­chase the text for the course
6. con­sid­er com­plet­ing the sum­mer review chal­lenge prob­lems to pre­pare for classes
7. email me ( Lori ) with any questions

In case you missed it, here are the live course schedules for this year: 

Wednesdays starting September 6^th

• 2 pm : AOPS Prealgebra 

I have yet to find a more chal­leng­ing, com­plete, and approach­able pre alge­bra text as this one. If you think that your child’s math edu­ca­tion is some­thing to cringe your way through, then admit­ted­ly this class is not for you. How­ev­er, if you have come to under­stand that the art of math­e­mat­ics is about dis­cov­er­ing the hid­den pat­terns and shap­ing our finite minds to com­pre­hend the infi­nite, then this is your math class! AOPS pre alge­bra takes time to adapt, as it lit­er­al­ly molds our minds to dis­cov­er the Truth of God through his logos. 

• 3 pm : Jacobs Algebra 1

Jacobs Ele­men­tary Alge­bra text is the most approach­able log­i­cal alge­bra text, which has stood the test of time. Stu­dents, teach­ers, and schools have been using this book for more than 50 years with suc­cess. This is a main­stream pro­gram that most every stu­dent does well with.

Thursdays starting September 7^th

• 2 pm : Algebra ¹⁄₂ 

This class is a con­tin­u­a­tion of last year’s alge­bra 1 and 2 class. We will start with a review from Foer­ster’s alge­bra and trigonom­e­try text, move into fin­ish­ing Jacobs’ Ele­men­tary Alge­bra, and then fin­ish up the alge­bra 2 por­tion of Foer­ster’s text. This class is great for those stu­dents who may have “com­plet­ed” alge­bra 1 last year, just bare­ly, or who got halfway through and need­ed to take more time. This class is per­fect for solid­i­fy­ing both alge­bra 1 and 2 con­cepts in a sin­gle course and prepar­ing stu­dents for geometry. 

• 3 pm : Introduction to Algebra

If your stu­dent loves the beau­ty of math­e­mat­ics, strug­gling to dis­cov­er and inter­pret those pat­terns, and plans to con­tin­ue to a com­pet­i­tive STEM pro­gram, then this math class is for her. This is AOP­S’s book cov­er­ing all of alge­bra 1 and 2 in an intense year of awe­some math mag­ic! We will cov­er chap­ters 1 — 21 in this live course, and many stu­dents will con­tin­ue to fin­ish chap­ter 22 after our last class to gain 1.5 cred­its in alge­bra 1 and 2. 

Here are all of the self-paced courses available:  

• Pre­al­ge­bra*
• Log­ic 1 
• Jacobs Ele­men­tary Alge­bra (Alge­bra 1)* 
• AOPS Intro­duc­tion to Alge­bra ( Alge­bra 1 & 2)*
• AOPS Inter­me­di­ate Alge­bra ( Alge­bra 3) 
• Jacobs Geom­e­try
• Alge­bra 2
• Pre­cal­cu­lus & Trigonometry
• Num­ber Sense

If you want to read more about any of these courses, you can check them out on the math masters page!