Math Foundations & Number Sense Boot Camp
Designed for 2 hours per week for 6 weeks over the summer. May be modified at client’s request. By the end of the 6 weeks, student will be proficient operating with basic facts and with partial amounts (fractions!!), will be comfortable with a whole slew of mental math tricks which will foster improved number sense, confidence and speed, and will get some word problem and TAKS problem exposure as needed.
Boot Camps are Back!
Pre-Algebra Boot Camp
Designed for 2 hours per week for 6 weeks over the summer. May be modified at client’s request. By the end of the 6 weeks, student will be 100% comfortable operating with signed integers, like terms, and fractions, decimals and percents (and converting between these last 3). They will be able to distribute, perform advanced order of operations problems, apply formulas and evaluate expressions with plug-ins, exponents and square roots. They will have a working knowledge of how to “speak math” and, MOST IMPORTANTLY, they will learn the basic equation-solving sequence frontwards and backwards. This alone will promote a highly successful Algebra experience when they take it in school.
Algebra 1A Boot Camp
Designed for 2 hours per week for 6 weeks over the summer. May be modified at client’s request. By the end of the 6 weeks, student will know the ins and outs of solving basic linear equations in a single variable. Then they will learn linear functions and systems of equations, and finally the lovely world of exponent rules. They will also get a solid introduction to polynomials and the infamous FOILing technique for multiplying binomials. This course’s strength lies in its depth-over-breadth philosophy: better to learn a few things really well than a bunch of things not-so-well. If student attends a public school in Texas, their algebra class will provide the breadth-not-depth version. Our course is a perfect compliment to and preparation for such a class and will help the student to get so much more out of it. This class is perfect for students taking Algebra next year. It’s also great if you took Algebra last year, but still feel shaky on things you learned. We don’t want these skills to just “look familiar” to you. We want you to OWN them.
Algebra 1B Boot Camp
Designed for 2 hours per week for 6 weeks over the summer. May be modified at client’s request. By the end of the 6 weeks, student will know the ins and outs of solving quadratic equations and graphing their related functions. They will have become a Factoring Wiz, and can confidently factor out a common factor, factor a trinomial, factor a difference of squares, factor an expression by grouping,… They will know how to perform operations on radical expressions and rational expressions and get a healthy introduction into solving rational and radical equations. This class is perfect for students taking Algebra next year, as long as you’ve taken Algebra 1A Boot Camp, or know these skills already. It’s also great if you took Algebra last year, but still feel shaky on things you learned. We don’t want these skills to just “look familiar” to you. We want you to OWN them.
Algebra Word Problems Boot Camp
Do any of these look familiar?
Rate-Time-Distance Problems: One train leaves Chicago going.. another leaves New York…
Wind and water Current Problems: A boat going upstream can get from point A to point B in…
Age Problems: Sam is 3 times as old as Wendy, and 5 years ago, Wendy was twice Jerry’s age…
Coin Problems: Judy has coins totaling…how many of each coin…
Work Problems: Sam can do the job in x hours and Ray can do it in y…
Mixture Problems: If peanuts sell for… and cashews sell for… how much will a mixture of the two…
Solution Problems: A 15% salt solution is mixed with a 25% salt solution…
Do they make your heart race and your hair stand on end? The trick to not being scared of them is exposure. We’ve got them divvied up into their respective categories so you can get enough repeated practice on each type to approach them with a confident swagger whenever you see them from now on. It’s all a matter of being able to recognize what type each one is, and have a system for approaching that type so that you’re not having to reinvent the wheel every time you solve one. This is a great camp for problem-solving skills and is appropriate for most students who have had Algebra I. It is designed to be taught in 14 hour-long sessions, preferably meeting twice a week for 7 weeks.
Algebra 2 Boot Camps
We’ve got this one in a preview and a review version.
A2 Preview Boot Camp:
Students usually take Algebra 2 after a year of Geometry, during which their Algebra skills may have gotten rusty. We freshen up all Algebra 1 skills and give a preview of some of the more important concept that a student will be seeing in Algebra 2, so that there are no surprises. With this course recently under their belt, students will feel self-assured going into their Algebra 2 class- they’ll be fresh on Algebra 1 skills as they come up again throughout the year, and unfazed by concepts such as matrices and synthetic division because instead of being brand new and foreign-looking to them, they’ll have just learned them with us!
A2 Review Boot Camp:
Did you take Algebra 2 last year and your head is spinning? Many students struggle throughout Algebra 2, because their energy is spent re-learning Algebra, so they don’t have a lot of mental space for the things that are being introduced for the first time (conic sections, matrices, right triangle trig, synthetic division). They end the year in survival mode and don’t really feel like they have a handle on the material at all. Summer is a great time to slow and down and sort out all that static from the crazy spring semester. We will help you make sense of it all in a way that will help you with your next high school math class, with SATs, and with TAKS/ End-of-Course Exams.
Geometry, Pre-Cal/ Trig/ Calculus, etc.
If you don’t see your specific course in the Boot Camp descriptions above, please let us know what you’re looking for! We also do one-on-one tutoring in the following subjects: Geometry, Pre-cal/ Trig, Calculus, remedial math sequences, College Algebra, the math portion of most standardized, entrance and exit exams, and more!
**These one-on-one coaching sessions are back by popular demand. You can now do a Boot Camp any time of the year, not just summer. Objectives for the sessions may be adjusted based on individual goals and level, and entire courses may be customizable upon request. Students’ skill-level will be assessed before and after the course. Click below for a full description.
TMT offers in-home tutoring throughout Austin TX and surrounding areas including Round Rock, Cedar Park, Georgetown, Leander and more.
Call us at (512) 454-8034 or email lacie@taylormadetutoring.com
for more information.
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