Math is a Language of the Universe: Fractions, Negatives, Exponents & PEMDAS

Math is a Language of the Universe: Fractions, Negatives, Exponents & PEMDAS

Age Range: 9+

Class Time (EST): 11:30am - 12:30 pm

Class Days: Mondays

Date Range: January 27 - March 3, 2025

Instructor Name: Mama Preshona {Ambri}

Instructor Email: [email protected]

Instructor cell phone: (240)-447-2983

Class Description

Practice the rhythm and logic behind processes in order to truly appreciate mathematics as the movement of our Universe.  This course spans the year in sequential parts, and goes at the speed of collective student progress.  This semester, we will follow our work from previous semesters, from the world of partial numbers - into negative operations, exponents, and PEMDAS.

Class Skills Development 

In this follow-up Foundations class, we will continue our practice in Partial #s by: understanding what fractions are and how to work them --and what decimals are and how to work with them. Dependent on student pace, we may also delve into exponents, negatives and PEMDAS.  

Class Materials 

"Recommended MATERIALS (to make Math the most interactive, fun, artsy - for visual-kinesthetic learners):

1. If at all possible, please have a Tablet with Stylus (makes it much easier to see practice in live time)

2. The Tablet program: One Note, if possible

3. Physical Math Notebook that can be painted on (if you haven’t already)

Purple, black, blue, white, yellow paint are recommended at least to capture the concept “Math is a Language of the Universe”

4. Sharpened Pencil / Mechanical Pencils (like: Mechanical Pencils: https://a.co/d/fcwGUC9

5. Retractable Highlighters: https://a.co/d/e8SmsG5

6. Colored Pens: Recommended: https://a.co/d/7blAZDl

7. Shape Stencil/Ruler: https://a.co/d/3JtJi6D"

Class Norms

Be studious, be respectful, be kind, cameras on - do homework each week and work to commit skill to memory each week

About the Instructor

Preshona Ambri, M.Ed was a top Calculus 3 student in highschool and college and has a Bachelors in Science/Arts in “Media & Cross-Cultural Hegemony,” examining how societal hegemony influences the ways that we learn. She has also earned her Masters in Special Education, with her thesis on the impacts of parental motivation on student success. She is very passionate about learning for expanding our awareness and consciousness as human beings sharing this Earth together:)