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Each level of math builds upon the skills and concepts learned in previous levels. To ensure success at later levels it's essential to start your child in the right level. Use our resources below to determine the best level for your child to start.

  • Use the tabs below and ensure your child meets the basic requirements outlined for each level.
  • Find the earliest level that contains skills and concepts your child hasn't yet learned or still struggles with.
  • Have your child take the downloadable placement test and use the included instructions to find the perfect level to start them in.
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Is my child ready for Primer?

If your child is just beginning formal math teaching and approximatly aged 3 to 6 years old then begin with Primer.

What concepts are taught in Primer?

Major Concepts and Skills Include:
  • Counting objects and developing numeracy
  • Understanding place value
  • Recognizing number names and symbols
  • Reading and writing numerals
  • Understanding addition and subtraction with concrete and representational models
  • Understanding and writing the symbols +, – and =
  • Addition and subtraction of select numbers
Additional Concepts and Skills:
  • Telling and writing time by hours and minutes
  • Recognizing & drawing rectangles, squares, and circles
  • Measuring length by repeating units
  • Introducing halves and fourths
  • Counting by 2s, 5s, 10s, and 100s
  • Reading, writing & interpreting word problem
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Is my child ready for Alpha?

If your child can make all their numbers from 0-9, understands the value of each, and is ready for seat work then they are ready for Alpha.

What concepts are taught in Alpha?

Major Concepts and Skills Include:
  • Understanding place value
  • Extending the counting sequence
  • Fluently adding all single-digit numbers
  • Solving for an unknown addend
  • Understanding the relationship between addition and subtraction
  • Fluently subtracting all single-digit numbers
Additional Concepts and Skills:
  • Telling and writing time by hours and minutes
  • Recognizing & drawing rectangles, squares, and circles
  • Measuring length by repeating units
  • Introducing halves and fourths
  • Counting by 2s, 5s, 10s, and 100s
  • Reading, writing & interpreting word problem
Have your child take our Placement Assessment to see if this is the right level for them!
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Is my child ready for Beta?

If your child can add and subtract single digit numbers with ease then they are ready for Beta.

What concepts are taught in Beta?

Major Concepts and Skills Include:
  • Understanding place value and using it to add or subtract
  • Fluently adding any combination of whole numbers
  • Solving for an unknown addend
  • Fluently subtracting any combination of whole numbers
  • Solving abstract and real-world problems involving addition and subtraction
Additional Concepts and Skills:
  • Telling and writing time by hours and minutes
  • Understanding, adding, and subtracting Canadian currency
  • Measuring and estimating length with inches, feet, centimeters, and meters
  • Comparing numbers and lengths
  • Expressing differences between numbers as inequalities
  • Finding the perimeter of any polygon
  • Representing and interpreting data in plots and graphs
Have your child take our Placement Assessment to see if this is the right level for them!
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Would my child benefit from Accelerated Individualized Mastery (AIM) for Addition and Subtraction?

Your child has previously completed addition and subtraction coursework but still struggles with facts. 

What is AIM for Addition and Subtraction?

AIM is NOT a level and might not be necessary for for every child. AIM for Addition and Subtraction was created for struggling math students who have gaps in their foundational math skills set. It can be used after your child has completed addition and subtraction coursework. The AIM program uses proven Math-U-See strategies and manipulatives in combination with an accelerated approach to help students successfully master math facts.  

You might consider using AIM for Addition and Subtraction if your child is:
  • Age 8+ and has previously completed addition and subtraction coursework without mastery
  • Using tally marks or counting on their fingers
  • Struggling as they face increasingly advanced math concepts
  • Needing more effective strategies to increase fact fluency
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Is my child ready for Gamma?

If your child can add and subtract multiple digit numbers and understands regrouping then they will be ready for Gamma.

What concepts are taught in Gamma?

Major Concepts and Skills Include:
  • Using strategies based on place value and properties of operations to multiply
  • Fluently multiplying any combination of whole numbers
  • Solving for an unknown factor
  • Solving abstract and real-world problems involving addition, subtraction, and multiplication
  • Measuring and computing area
  • Relating concepts of area to addition and multiplication
Additional Concepts and Skills:
  • Skip counting as a precursor to multiplication
  • Adding and subtracting time in hours and minutes
  • Multiplying, adding, and subtracting U.S. currency and standard units of measure
  • Representing, recording, and interpreting data
  • Understanding of basic fractions
  • Estimating and solving measurement problems
Have your child take our Placement Assessment to see if this is the right level for them!
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Is my child ready for Delta?

If your child can add and subtract multiple digit numbers then they are ready for Delta.

What concepts are taught in Delta?

Major Concepts and Skills Include:
  • Using strategies based on place value and properties of operations to divide
  • Understanding division as solving for an unknown factor
  • Fluently dividing any combination of whole numbers
  • Solving abstract and real-world problems involving all four operations
  • Interpreting remainders in short and long division
  • Understanding fraction notation in light of division
Additional Concepts and Skills:
  • Reading and writing Roman numerals
  • Dividing, multiplying, adding, and subtracting U.S. currency and standard units of measure
  • Understanding angle measure and geometric shapes including
  • Classifying shapes based on defining attributes
  • Understanding and computing area and volume
Have your child take our Placement Assessment to see if this is the right level for them!
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Would my child benefit from Accelerated Individualized Mastery (AIM) for Multiplication and Division?

Your child has previously completed multiplication and division coursework but still struggles with facts. 

What is AIM for Multiplication and Division?

AIM is NOT a level and might not be necessary for for every child. AIM for Multiplication and Division was created for struggling math students who have gaps in their foundational math skills set. It can be used after your child has completed multiplication and division coursework. The AIM program uses proven Math-U-See strategies and manipulatives in combination with an accelerated approach to help students successfully master math facts.  

You might consider using AIM for Multiplication and Division if your child is:
  • Age 10+ and has completed previous multiplication coursework without mastery
  • Having difficulty recalling basic multiplication facts
  • Relying on counting on their fingers, tally marks, or skip counting to arrive at the answer
  • Experiencing difficulty with multi-digit multiplication due to incomplete fact mastery
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Is my child ready for Epsilon?

If your child can add, subtract, multiply, and divide multiple digit numbers your child is ready for Epsilon.

What concepts are taught in Epsilon?

Major Concepts and Skills Include:
  • Recognizing and generating equivalent fractions
  • Understanding addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of fractions and mixed numbers
  • Fluently adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing fractions and mixed numbers
Additional Concepts and Skills:
  • Using multiple strategies to recognize common factors
  • Understanding grouping symbols and their effect on order of operations
  • Interpreting and solving word problems
  • Comparing, and converting decimal fractions
  • Finding the area and circumference of circles
  • Representing fractions and fractional measurements on line plots and number lines
  • Using coordinates to represent ordered relationships
Have your child take our Placement Assessment to see if this is the right level for them!
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Is my child ready for Zeta?

If your child can add, subtract, multiply, and divide multiple digit numbers, and they can add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions then your child is ready for Zeta.

What concepts are taught in Zeta?

Major Concepts and Skills Include:
  • Expanding understanding of place value from positive powers of ten to include decimals
  • Fluently adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing multiple digit decimals using place-value strategies
  • Solving real-world problems with decimals and percentages
  • Understanding the metric system and converting from one unit of measure to another
Additional Concepts and Skills:
  • Understanding and simplifying exponents
  • Understanding negative numbers and representing them on the coordinate plane
  • Using properties of operations to simplify and evaluate algebraic expressions
  • Interpreting and graphing relationships between dependent and independent variables
  • Understanding of plane geometry & geometric symbols
  • Using ratio reasoning to solve problems
Have your child take our Placement Assessment to see if this is the right level for them!
Zeta Placement Assessment
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Is my child ready for Pre-Algebra?

If your child has mastered all skills up to and including Zeta have them take the Pre-Algebra Placement test.

What concepts are taught in Pre-Algebra?

Major Concepts and Skills Include:
  • Fluently adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing positive and negative numbers
  • Understanding and simplifying exponents
  • Using properties of operations, order of operations, and absolute value
  • Expanding understanding of place value
  • Evaluating radicals
  • Identifying the least common multiple and greatest common factor
Additional Concepts and Skills:
  • Using the Pythagorean theorem to identify triangle attributes
  • Transforming temperatures between Celsius and Fahrenheit
  • Understanding and computing surface area and volume
  • Adding and subtracting time using both 12-hour and military notation
  • Adding and multiplying polynomials
  • Identifying rational and irrational numbers
Have your child take our Placement Assessment to see if this is the right level for them!
Pre-Algebra Placement Assessment
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Is my child ready for Algebra 1?

If your child has begun Algebra using a different program have them take the Pre-Algebra Placement Assessment and work up through the placement levels until they begin to struggle with the concepts.

What concepts are taught in Algebra 1?

Major Concepts and Skills Include:
  • Graphing linear equations and inequalities
  • Describing linear equations in slope-intercept and standard form
  • Solving systems of equations using graphing, substitution, and elimination
  • Expanding understanding of exponents
  • Solving basic quadratic equations with factoring
  • Using unit multipliers to convert between units of measure
Additional Concepts and Skills:
  • Applying properties of arithmetic functions to algebra
  • Adding, multiplying, and dividing polynomials
  • Applying significant digits to computations with scientific notation
  • Converting between base 10 and other bases
  • Graphing conic sections
  • Applying significant digits to computations with scientific notation
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Algebra 1 Placement Assessment
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Is my child ready for Algebra 1: Principles of Secondary Mathematics?

You student may be ready for Algebra 1: Principles of Secondary Mathematics if they can:

  • Proficiently add, subtract, multiply, and divide whole numbers, fractions, mixed numbers, and decimals
  • Convert between a fraction, decimal, and percent
  • Solve one-step equations
  • Plot points on a number line and coordinate grid
  • Perform operations with integers
  • Write an algebraic expression to solve a word problem

What concepts are taught in Algebra 1: Principles of Secondary Mathematics?

For a more detailed placement assessment use the following readiness guidelines. This document will cover all the prerequisite concepts and skills necessary to be successful in Algebra 1: Principles of Secondary Mathematics.

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Algebra 1: PSM Readiness Guideline PDF
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Is my child ready for Geometry?

If your child has begun Algebra using a different program have them take the Pre-Algebra Placement Assessment and work up through the placement levels until they begin to struggle with the concepts.

What concepts are taught in Geometry?

Major Concepts and Skills Include:
  • Describing points, lines, rays, line segments, angles, and planes
  • Calculating the measure of the interior and exterior angles of a regular polygon
  • Understanding the geometry of a circle, sphere, and ellipse
  • Understanding and computing volume and surface area of solids
  • Using the Pythagorean theorem to identify triangle attributes
  • Applying postulates, theorems, definitions, and properties to geometric proofs
Additional Concepts and Skills:
  • Using a protractor to construct angles
  • Using a compass to construct bisectors
  • Constructing and identifying triangles
  • Working with algebraic expressions containing radicals
  • Completing geometric transformations within a Cartesian plane
  • Understanding basic trigonometric functions
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Is my child ready for Algebra 2?

If your child has mastered all skills up to and including Zeta have them take the Pre-Algebra Placement test.

What concepts are taught in Algebra 2?

Major Concepts and Skills Include:
  • Simplifying multiple-degree rational expressions
  • Working with imaginary and complex numbers
  • Understanding and applying the binomial theorem
  • Solving basic quadratic equations with factoring
  • Applying analytic geometry to conic sections
  • Solving simultaneous equations (linear and conic) using graphing, substitution, and elimination
Additional Concepts and Skills:
  • Applying basic algebra to problems involving ratios and proportions
  • Graphing inequalities
  • Using the distance and midpoint formulas
  • Solving equations with three variables
  • Solving problems involving distance, rate, and time
  • Understanding vectors
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Is my child ready for Pre-Calculus?

If your child has mastered all skills up to and including Zeta have them take the Pre-Algebra Placement test.

What concepts are taught in Pre-Calculus?

Major Concepts and Skills Include:
  • Understanding and working with trigonometric ratios, their reciprocals, and their inverses
  • Working with trigonometric expressions and identities
  • Understanding and working with polar coordinates and radian measure
  • Graphing and analyzing trigonometric functions
  • Understanding functions, limits, domain, and range
  • Working with Arithmetic and Geometric Series and Sequences
Additional Concepts and Skills:
  • Understanding and applying the Laws of Sines and Cosines
  • Understanding and applying the Sum, Difference, Double-Angle, and Half-Angle Identities
  • Proving trigonometric identities
  • Working with vectors and adding linear functions
  • Understanding and working with logarithms
  • Working with Euler’s number and natural logarithms
Have your child take our Placement Assessment to see if this is the right level for them!
Pre-Calculus Placement Assessment
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Is my child ready for Calculus?

If your child has mastered all skills up to and including Zeta have them take the Pre-Algebra Placement test.

What concepts are taught in Calculus?

Major Concepts and Skills Include:
  • Understanding limits and continuity
  • Working with derivatives and derivative rules
  • Using Implicit Differentiation
  • Applying L’Hôpital’s Rule
  • Working with definite and indefinite integrals
  • Working with exponential and logarithmic functions and their derivatives
Additional Concepts and Skills:
  • Applying the Chain Rule and the Mean Value Theorem
  • Optimizing with calculus
  • Understanding antiderivatives
  • Working with integration formulas
  • Solving differential equations
  • Applying calculus to physics and economics
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