Math

Mathematics and Success Add Up!

Mathematics is used to understand and interpret our world. In the global economy of the 21st century, those who can understand and apply mathematics have more opportunities to achieve success in higher education, the world of work, and life. Each lesson cycle begins with problem-solving in a whole-class format. Harvard's curriculum provides extensive problem solving assignments that enrich your child's learning experience, resulting in a thorough and deep understanding of the concepts. After the problem-solving session, students practice their skills in a new application with feedback. Math topics spiral in a variety of creative and challenging ways so as to achieve mastery of the fundamentals.

Curriculum Overview

Throughout mathematics students build a foundation of basic understandings in number, operation, and quantitative reasoning; patterns relationships, and algebraic thinking; geometry and spatial reasoning; measurement; and probability, and statistics. Students use numbers in ordering, labeling, and expressing quantities and relationships to solve problems and translate informal language into mathematical language and symbols. Students use objects to create and identify patterns and use those patterns to express relationships, make predictions, and solve problems as they build an understanding or number, operation, shape and space.

Students develop numerical fluency with conceptual understanding and computational accuracy. They use number sense to compose numbers in order to solve problems requiring precision, estimation and reasonableness.  Student will know their basic facts in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and use them to work accurately with numbers.

Problem-solving, language and communication, connections within and outside mathematics, and formal and informal reasoning are taught. Students use these processes together with technology and other manipulative materials to develop conceptual understanding and solve meaningful problems.