Prerequisites: Completion of Singapore Math levels 3B OR Beast Academy 3D
There are 4 books in Beast Academy Level 4: 4A, 4B, 4C, 4D for a one-year curriculum. We have finished the book 4A in Summer. This class will start from book 4B and then continue to book 4C in the Fall term, with about 12-week of class. After completion of this course, students should join the BA Math 4CD in the winter/spring to finish the 4C and 4D book.
- Beast Academy 4A covers shapes, multiplication, and exponents
- Beast Academy 4B covers counting, division, and logic.
- Beast Academy 4C covers factors, fractions, and integers
- Beast Academy 4D covers fractions, decimals, and probability
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 in applying mathematics to various situations.
The materials cover core fundamentals and then present these fundamentals at a deeper and more challenging level than a 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. You may also buy the textbooks at the group discount price on Sunshine's website via the Courses page.
Instructor:
Angela Norse
