After students complete the elementary math courses, they will be ready to begin the following math sequence: 

• College/University Bound Students:  Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, Pre-calculus and Calculus
  
• Learning for Life Students:  Algebra 1, Geometry, Consumer and Practical Math​

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Learning Benchmarks (College Bound)

Learning Benchmarks (Learning for Life)

STEM Resources

• ​Computer Programming Basics Lesson Plan: Tynker Games
• The Educator’s Guide to Applying Real-World Math: 15 Resources with over 100 Lesson Plans
• Architecture Activities to Help You Address NGSS Engineering Standards​

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Books

"Recommended with confidence" by The Times Literary Supplement, this lively survey starts with simple arithmetic and algebra and proceeds by gradual steps through graphs, logarithms, and trigonometry to calculus and the world of numbers. Generations of readers have found it the ideal introduction to mathematics, offering accessible explanations of how theory arises from real-life applications.
"The main object of this book is to dispel the fear of mathematics," declares author W. W. Sawyer, adding that "Many people regard mathematicians as a race apart, possessed of almost supernatural powers. While this is very flattering for successful mathematicians, it is very bad for those who, for one reason or another, are attempting to learn the subject." Now retired, Sawyer won international renown for his innovative teaching methods, which he used at colleges in England and Scotland as well as Africa, New Zealand, and North America. His insights into the pleasures and practicalities of mathematics will appeal to readers of all backgrounds.
​Available on Amazon

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Michael Schneider leads us on a spectacular, lavishly illustrated journey along the numbers one through ten to explore the mathematical principles made visible in flowers, shells, crystals, plants, and the human body, expressed in the symbolic language of folk sayings and fairy tales, myth and religion, art and architecture. This is a new view of mathematics, not the one we learned at school but a comprehensive guide to the patterns that recur through the universe and underlie human affairs.

Available on Amazon

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Resources
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College Bound Students:  

• Singapore Math Books provide instruction up through geometry and algebra with some trigonometry.  
  • Dimensions Mathematics from Singapore (This series has been aligned with Common Core standards but their great teaching methods remain unchanged) - Students should complete the Primary mathematics series from Singapore math to be prepared for the Dimensions math books.
  • New Elementary Math from Singapore math is another great series that focuses on the "basics" of higher math, including algebra and geometry.  Students who have used math programs other than Singapore can transition easily into this math book. 
• Teaching Textbooks (CD video instruction and consumable textbooks)
• Homeschool Math from Mathhelp.com
• CTC Math (online math tutoring)
• KHAN Academy (online math tutoring)
• ALEKS:   Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Spaces is a Web-based, artificially intelligent assessment and learning system. ALEKS uses adaptive questioning to quickly and accurately determine exactly what a student knows and doesn't know in a course. ALEKS then instructs the student on the topics she is most ready to learn.
• Enroll in Algebra 2 or higher math course at their local high school or community college

• Many universities offer early college courses for credit to high school students.

Learning for Life Students:


​Continue math studies from your favorite provider through Algebra 1 and Geometry

• If you use Singapore Math, use New Elementary Math Syllabus D Book 1 for Algebra 1 and Geometry
• Click here to see more resources for Consumer and Practical Math. 

Our Favorite Math Stories:

The Grapes of Math by Greg Tang
Sir Cumference and the First Round Table by Cindy
     Neuschwander
Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone by Cindy
     Neuschwander
Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi by Cindy
     Neuschwander
Sir Cumference and the Isle of Immeter by Cindy
     Neuschwander
Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland by Cindy
     Neuschwander
The History of Counting by Denise Schmandt-Besserat
What’s Your Angle Pythagoras? By Julie Ellis
Morris the Millionaire Mouse by Melanie Martin
How Much is a Million by David M. Schwartz
Multiplying Menace:  the Revenge of Rumpelstiltskin by
     Pam Calvert
Mathematicians Are People Too Volumes 1 & 2 by Luetta
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Arithmetic Village (Series of Books) by Kimberly Moore
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky
The Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns
Life of Fred Books
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