Live instructors build the prealgebra fundamentals for students and prepare them to face challenges at national math contests, like MATHCOUNTS and the MAA AMC 8.
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Students who complete Contest Math 6A are ready for Contest Math 6B. Similar to Honors Math 6: Prealgebra, this course takes conceptual understanding to the next level — while also integrating a special focus on highly challenging problems and practice contests for students who want to participate in math competitions.
To determine if your student is ready for this course or others at the Virtual Campus, learn more here.
Our expert instructors use the Art of Problem Solving curriculum to teach Contest Math 6: Prealgebra. AoPS curriculum is a much broader and deeper exploration of challenging mathematics than a typical math curriculum.
This course will require both the Prealgebra and Competition Math for Middle School textbooks.
Our instructors hold classes virtually, in a small-sized (10-16 students) videoconferencing classroom.
There are about 1 to 3 hours of homework each week. There is one timed final exam at the end of the course.
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Each course runs for 18 weeks with one 120-minute lesson per week.
