Prerequisites: Completion of Singapore Math levels 3A OR Beast Academy 2D.
There are 4 books in Beast Academy Level 3: 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D.
- BA Level 3A covers shapes, skip-counting, and perimeter and area.
- BA Level 3B covers multiplication and perfect squares.
- BA Level 3C includes chapters on variables, division, and measurement.
- BA Level 3D includes chapters on fractions, estimation, and area.
This class will cover book 3A in Summer. Students who finish this class may continue to the book 3B in the Fall term.
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 of applying mathematics to various situations.
The materials cover core fundamentals and then presents these fundamentals at a deeper and more challenging level than 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. You may also buy the textbooks at the group discount price on Sunshine's website via the Courses page.
Instructor:
Angela Norse