Prerequisites: Completion of Singapore Math levels 1B or Beast Academy 1D.
There are 4 books in Beast Academy Level 2: 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D.
- Beast Academy 2A includes chapers on place value, comparing, and addition.
- Beast Academy 2B includes chapters on subtraction, expressions, and problem solving.
- Beast Academy Level 2C includes chapters on measurement, strategies, and odds and evens.
- Beast Academy Level 2D includes chapters on big numbers, algorithms, and problem solving.
This class will cover book 2A & 2B in the Winter/Spring term. Students who finish this class may continue with book 2C & 2D in summer.
Beast Academy is published by Art of Problem-Solving as an introduction to their rigorous middle school and high school textbooks. It's a comprehensive curriculum for grades 2-5. Each level consists of a Guide book (a fully-illustrated textbook written in an engaging, comic-book style) and a Practice book (a workbook providing hundreds of exercises, problems, puzzles, and games to reinforce the lessons from the Guide).
The guides utilize many everyday contexts and visual representations to encourage children to think deeply and understand what they’re learning. This encourages a diminishment of rote learning and an increase in applying mathematics to various situations.
The materials cover core fundamentals and then present these fundamentals at a deeper and more challenging level than a typical elementary-school math curriculum. The problem sets are explicitly designed to help students develop the mental grit to handle AMC and Math Olympiad problems and later tackle the kind of non-trivial open questions that real mathematicians work on.
To ensure your child is a good fit for this class, you may have him or her take the online math assessment test at http://www.sunshineeliteeducation.com/assessment_test_list.php
Note: Books in PDF will be uploaded to the students' class page before the term starts. The practice books 2A and 2B are included. You may buy the textbooks at the group discount price on Sunshine's website via this link: https://www.sunshineeliteeducation.com/course.php?term=39&filter_title=Beast
Instructor:
Angela Norse
