Trapezium Math has been very deliberate and thoughtful about engaging our youngest learners and has created content that recognizes the social, emotional, physical (fine motor skills) and academic needs of these learners. Our kindergarten math support creates a foundation for mastering math in elementary school.
Automaticity Trapezium has developed incremental activities beginning in kindergarten that support full automaticity in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts by the end of 3rd grade.
Fluency
We support students in developing a mental map of numbers so that they can understand, relate, and connect numbers. Additionally we support students in transferring what they know about numbers to time, money and measurement.
Tenacity
Cultivating tenacity is essential to supporting a strong and confident math learner. Through different games and challenges we support students in developing the ability to approach hard math with a willingness to fail and keep trying. We want students to know they are capable of doing hard math!
Founder Angela McIver, PhD, long believed that elementary students were capable of doing far more challenging math than elementary programs were asking of them. Dr. McIver completed her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania where she wrote her doctoral dissertation, Understanding the Numerical Reasoning of Middle School Students. Based on her experiences interviewing hundreds of students across the country from kindergarten to college, Dr. McIver concluded that few students were provided the rigor necessary to develop strong math foundations. She also found that when rigor was provided, it was neither engaging nor confidence-building for students. These conclusions formed the cornerstone of Trapezium Math. Trapezium Math challenges elementary students with activities that move away from the worksheet-driven classroom and ignites the desire to learn math.
Thank you so much Angela McIver from Trapezium Math for joining Cheldin Barlatt Rumer on This Is It TV.
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