Math Bootcamp

From OER Commons Wiki

We Teach Science and the Khan Academy are delighted to offer our summer Mental Boot Camp once again.

What is it? The Mental Boot Camp is an intensive, one-week program focused on accelerating the learning of some of the San Francisco Peninsula’s high potential young minds. It is directed at rising 6 -12th graders (we will be willing to make exceptions for particularly mature rising 5th graders) who demonstrate the motivation and ability to deepen their understanding of math, science and engineering. Although this is not an SAT-prep course, SAT-type problems will be heavily used and the students will be encouraged to take the SAT to assess their overall progress. The heavy thinking will be interspersed with creative and physical activities to ensure the flow of blood to both the body and brain!

Contents 1 Day 1 2 Day 2 3 Day 3 4 Day 4

Day 1

• Warm Up
• Critical Mass
• Robot Learning and Experimentation
• Journal Entry

Day 2

• Warm Up
• Critical Mass
• Mafia
• Robot Learning and Experimentation
• Journal Entry

Day 3

• Warm Up
• Ultimate
• Startup
• Math of Risk
• Robot Sumo Wrestling Competition
• Journal Entry

Day 4

• Warm Up
• Alien Nature Abduction
• Alien Abduction Exercise
• Robot Sumo Wrestling Competition
• Journal Entry