• The Council Rock Elementary Mathematics Enrichment Program

    Parent of enrolled students, please click here to complete the 23-24 Student Information Sheet.

     
    Grades 3-6 Math Enrichment Schedule 2023-2024
     Grade 3
    Mondays & Wednesdays 11:15-12:00
     
    Grade 4
    Mondays & Wednesdays 10:15-11:15
     
    Grade 5
    Tuesdays & Fridays 11:00-12:00
     
    Grade 6
    Tuesdays & Fridays 9:30-10:30
    WES: Mondays & Thursdays 12:00-1:00
     
      
     
    The purpose of the Enrichment Program is to provide horizontal enrichment for the identified mathematically talented students in grades 4, 5, and 6 in the area of problem solving and mathematical investigations.  This enrichment will occur during two days a week in place of the student's regular math class.
     
    Instructional Procedures, Purpose, and Objectives:
     
     
    The student will master a four step method of problem solving:
     
    1. Understand the problem.
    2. Plan how to solve the problem.
    3. Carry out the plan.
    4. Look back at the process.
     
     
    The student will learn to solve a variety of problems using one or more of the following strategies:
     
    ~ draw a picture                                        ~ find a pattern
    ~ make an organized list                          ~ make a table
    ~ solve a simpler problem                        ~ guess and check
    ~ trial and error                                         ~ experimenting
    ~ act out the problem                                ~ work backwards
    ~ write an equation                                    ~ use logic and deduction
    ~ change your point of view                     ~ process of elimination
     
     
    The student will analyze problems and use his/her understanding of mathematics to devise one or more plans of attack and continue to work with the problem until a method is devised to solve it.  
     
    Using various materials, the student will translate written or oral problems into the language of mathematics.  
     
    Students will be encouraged to strive for brevity and elegance in their problem solutions and to find more than one method of solution.  
     
    Students will interact with one another at appropriate times during the solution of a problem or the development of a project to challenge them to defend, clarify, and generalize their thinking.  
     
    Students will expand their understanding by creating their own problems, algorithms, procedures and prove the logic of their thinking.  
     
    Students will participate in the Pennsylvania Mathematics League competitions and the Elementary Math Olympiads.