Summer math course descriptions.
Course-by-course breakdowns for our six summer math tracks: Pre-Algebra, Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, Pre-Calculus, and Calculus.
Schedule and pricing details on the summer programs overview.
Six tracks, one per grade band.
Each course is two weeks, Monday through Friday, two hours per day. Small groups (max 7 students, minimum 3 to run). Pick the track that matches your student's incoming class.
Pre-Algebra
Prepares students for 7th/8th grade math or Algebra 1 by providing the building blocks essential for developing confidence in high school mathematics. Rather than having students mimic routines, the focus is on genuine understanding of the concepts and the beauty of logic.
- Evolution of number sets
- Arithmetic with integers, fractions, and decimals
- Factors and multiples
- Ratio, proportion, and percent
- Exponents
- Order of operations
- Solving equations with one variable
- Solving inequalities with one variable
Fundamentals for Algebra 1
Prepares students for Algebra 1 by providing the main building blocks essential for developing confidence in high school mathematics. Rather than having students mimic routines, the focus is on genuine understanding of the concepts and the beauty of logic.
- Evolution of number sets
- Operations with exponents and radicals
- Order of operations
- Solving linear equations with one variable
- Solving linear equations with two variables
- Solving linear inequalities
- Polynomials: operations and GCF factoring
- Introduction to functions
Fundamentals for Geometry
Prepares students for a year-long journey in Geometry class. This is a hands-on class with extensive use of compasses, straightedges, and protractors. Each day includes engaging video materials and challenging constructions that take students beyond the typical setting of numbers and equations.
- Language of geometry, postulates and theorems, writing proofs
- Parallel and perpendicular lines, angles and their relations
- Triangles, congruency and similarity
- Special lines in triangles; inscribed and circumscribed circles
- Properties of quadrilaterals
- Areas of regular polygons
Fundamentals for Algebra 2
Prepares students for a year-long journey in Algebra 2 class by providing the main building blocks essential for developing confidence in high school mathematics. Rather than having students mimic routines, the focus is on genuine understanding of the concepts and the beauty of logic.
- Evolution of number sets
- Operations with exponents and radicals
- Polynomials: operations and factoring
- Introduction to transformations of functions
- Linear functions and equations
- Exponential functions and equations
- Quadratic functions and equations
- Radical functions and equations
Fundamentals for Precalculus
Prepares students for Precalculus or Math Analysis class. The focus is on exploring all important concepts for graphing functions by examining significant points and limits.
- Transformations of functions
- Inverse function graphs
- Complex numbers
- Factoring polynomials
- Linear, quadratic, and polynomial function graphs
- Rational function graphs
- Exponential function graphs
- Logarithms
- Trigonometry
- Introduction to limits
Fundamentals for Calculus
Prepares students for Calculus class. The focus is on exploring all important concepts of derivatives and integrals and analyzing and graphing functions by examining significant points and limits.
- Function notation
- Review of linear, quadratic, polynomial, rational, absolute value, power, exponential, logarithmic, trigonometric, and piecewise-defined functions
- Limits and continuity
- Intermediate and Extreme Value Theorem
- Derivatives, product and quotient rules, chain rule, implicit differentiation and related rates
- Rolle's Theorem and Mean Value Theorem
- Analysis of functions using first and second derivative
- Integrals
- The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
All summer math courses run in person at our Redmond center, serving students across the Eastside, including Bellevue, Kirkland, Woodinville, Sammamish, and families throughout the Lake Washington School District.
Ready to lock in a seat?
Tell us which course your student is interested in and we'll follow up to confirm scheduling and class size. Seats fill by late spring.