Math enrichment is provided to high ability first grade students starting in September. Groups of students meet with the gifted specialist once a week for approximately 35 minutes.
Topics include:
- Story problems
- Multi-step problem solving
- Strategies that can be used to solve problems
- Tangrams
- Attributes
- Measurement
- Logic
- Probability
- Puzzle Solving
- Matching
In second grade, the gifted specialist will work in the faster-paced math classes, providing support for the second grade math program and also offering enrichment units. These units may include topics such as using different math strategies to problem solve, MicroWorlds and other computer programs in the computer lab, symmetry, discovering pentominoes, and chess.