Prerequisites: Completion of Beast Academy 4A or same level of math skills.
There are 4 books in Beast Academy Level 2: 4A, 4B, 4C, 4D. This class covers 4B and 4C books in the winter/spring term.
- Beast Academy 4A covers shapes, multiplication, and exponents
- Beast Academy 4B covers counting, division, and logic.
- Beast Academy 4C covers factors, fractions, and integers
- Beast Academy 4D covers fractions, decimals, and probability
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 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 4B and 4C 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
