Our Sixth Grade Intensive Preparation (6IP) class is a 6-lesson summer course designed to fully prepare students for our sixth grade curriculum. Whereas most summer math programs are remedial in nature, ours is not. Students entering our 6IP class should already possess a basic understanding of fifth grade math and be ready to move to a higher level of proficiency.

Each 2.25-hour 6IP lesson reviews approximately 6 lessons of fifth grade (5A and 5B) material. The class not only gives students an opportunity to review and reinforce what they learned in fifth grade math, it encourages them to build upon that knowledge by applying it to solve more challenging multi-step word and non-routine problems, thereby improving and expanding their abilities.

Topics covered include:

• Lesson 1: Whole numbers: rounding, estimation, order of operations. Multiplication and division by a 2-digit whole number.
• Lesson 2: Area of triangles. Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of fractions and mixed numbers.
• Lesson 3: Ratios. Multiplying and dividing decimals and whole numbers.
• Lesson 4: Averages, Rates.
• Lesson 5: Percentage. Line graphs.
• Lesson 6: Geometry. Angle properties of triangles and 4-sided figures. Geometrical constructions. Volume of rectangular solids.