There are 4 books in Beast Academy Level 2: 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D. This class covers the main highlights in each book to prepare students to join Beast Academy Level 3 in the Fall.
- BA Level 2A includes chapters on place value, comparing, and addition.
- BA Level 2B includes chapters on subtraction, expressions, and problem solving.
- BA Level 2C includes chapters on measurement, strategies, and odds & evens.
- BA Level 2D includes chapters on big numbers, algorithms, and problem solving.
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 presents these fundamentals at a deeper and more challenging level than 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. Only certain pages will be assigned, so there is no need to have the physical books unless desired.
Instructor:
Angela Norse
