Sockcamp covers
no-holds-barred elementary arithmetic through early prep for
pre-algebra, with side trips into rudiments of geometry, patterns,
per cents and various applications. A perfect course for today's
calculator-hampered student who badly needs to learn how to
add, subtract, multiply, divide, and the like.
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Bootcamp
Bootcamp deals
with advanced arithmetic with heavy emphasis on all the nuances
of fractions and mixed fractions, decimals, percents, positive
and negative numbers, exponents (including negative and fractional),
roots, absolute value, scientific notation, averages, ratio,
scale, non-decimal bases, and all manner of combinations of
the above. All of this is meticulously sequenced and connected,
with all material presented in down-to-earth language before
the relevant symbolic approach is introduced.
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Deployment
Deployment rigorously
covers the full gamut of a traditional elementary algebra course
(including a wide range of concepts nowadays relegated to more "advanced" courses),
embracing the five fundamental mathematical functions of simplification,
solution, modeling, transformation, and proof.
Topics
range from operations on variables through evaluation through
substitution through solution of equations of a great variety
of degrees, solving systems of equations, various graphing applications,
polynomials (including all basic operations on them), more complicated
expressions, completing the square, the quadratic formula, complex
operations on algebraic fractions, complex fractions, variation,
parabolas, and much,much more.
Plus a
huge unit at the end that includes applications that fine tune
the student's ability to discern which algebraic approach fits
a given situation, as well as standarized test-type problems.
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SuperPhonics
The twin goals of SuperPhonics and its Parents'
Handbook:
1. To provide a background second to none in standard American
English phonics
This, we hope, is accomplished succinctly via the material in
much of the Parents' Handbook. It is likewise presented - in greater
detail - in the voluminous lettered sections that comprise the
majority of this text (look for the "standard" designation
for the given set of entries there).
2. To ensure that the student, at least in some sense, "sounds
out" even the most bizarre words (among the approximate ½ of
the language that does not obey its standard phonics rules)
We thereby seek to circumvent the horrific (but voguish) "sight
words" (rote memorization) or "context clues" (guessing)
approaches that are precisely "why Johnnie can't read." This,
we trust (and experience verifies) is achieved via techniques outlined
elsewhere in that Handbook. Such a process pertains to determining
the given "offending" letter/letters and the associated "oddball" pronunciation,
followed by an instant "drill" (from the lettered sections)
consisting of the reading of (generally) several other words that "disobey" the
same rule in the same way (thus reinforcing the new "sub-rule").
Required is a teacher/tutor/parent who (a) already reads reasonably
well, and (b) has the patience and perseverance to familiarize
him or herself with the layout and logic of these sections. Also:
a decent dictionary with a well understood pronunciation key at
least analogous to ours (a decent dictionary will have such a key).
In the case of unfamiliar words, such a dictionary will serve to
point one to the proper set of entries in these seemingly daunting
sections.
