(4 semester academic units)

REQUIREMENTS - Please read carefully: All course participants must have successfully completed the Overview AND at least one of the following additional Making Math Real courses:
-Making Math Real: Pre-Algebra
OR one of these former courses titled:
-Making Math Real: Pre-Algebra and Algebra
-Making Math Real Part III
-Making Pre-Algebra and Algebra Real

Continuing the development from Making Math Real: Pre-Algebra, this course will complete the remaining components that comprise the full integration of algebraic law.  All of the content in pre-algebra and algebra is about providing students with the integration of algebraic problem solving tools for direct application in higher-level mathematics, specifically, algebra 2, trigonometry, pre-calculus (math analysis), and calculus.  The key to the successful integration of algebraic law is providing instruction in a systematic incremental structure where each current activity builds the tools for the next; and each next activity adds one new element.  Therefore, course emphasis is on the content, sequence, and methods of instruction that support this integrity of incrementation.  Additional focus is on re-connecting all of the mathematics to its scientific basis, thereby helping students understand the direct meaning of all of the math codes that support maximum comprehension and successful application.  The innovative, multisensory structured strategies of this course are designed to support successful processing for all learners, and continue the multisensory structured methodologies of the K-5 Making Math Real development.

Topics include full units on number theory, exponents and scientific notation; solving equations, polynomials, functions, factoring polynomials through the quadratic formula and completing the square; radical expressions and equations; rational expressions and equations (algebraic fractions); graphing parabolas; and algebraic word problem solving. This course is designed for educational therapists, special educators, and elementary,  secondary, and community college teachers. Parents and those who consider themselves non-math majors are especially encouraged to enroll. Prior knowledge of algebra is not required.

These techniques are designed to reach the full diversity of learning styles.  Extensive color-coding is a critical element of the program. Please bring 4 colored ball point pens or pencils in blue, green, red and black.

Instructor: DAVID BERG, Educational Therapist, Founder and Director of the Making Math Real Institute

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Cost of the NEW 8-day Algebra Course:
$994 for tuition and reader, paid to Making Math Real Institute; $360 for optional 4 semester UC Extension academic units, paid to UC Regents on the first day of class.