Activites, Camps and After School Classes in Cary, NC

Ready to decompose numbers, Subtraction Superheroes? Get Ready to Take Away! Join our fun-filled Math Workshop Session where we'll become subtraction experts! Learn all about "taking apart" and "taking from" with amazing objects, your own fingers, by acting out subtraction stories, and exploring a host of subtraction strategies to use that make sense! Some of the subtraction strategies we will explore: adding up, removing or counting back, place value, keeping a constant distant, and adjusting one number to create an easier problem. We'll solve exciting subtraction word problems and become subtraction stars. Discover how to break down numbers in lots of different ways. Let's build on what we know about addition to make a case for the connection to subtraction. Plus, we'll find those special number partners that make 10 and 100. And guess what? Let's subtract, explore, and become number whizzes together!

Get ready for a geometry adventure in our Math Workshop Session! We’ll explore the exciting world of shapes, lines, and angles, and discover how they build the world around us. We’ll identify and compare different shapes, from quadrilaterals to polygons. We’ll delve into the concepts of area and perimeter, learning how to measure the space inside and around shapes. We’ll build on our knowledge by classifying shapes based on their properties, including parallel and perpendicular lines, and different types of angles. We’ll learn about symmetry and how to identify lines of symmetry. We’ll continue to explore area and perimeter, applying formulas to solve real-world problems. Some of the math tools that we will get our hands on are pattern blocks, plane and solid shapes, and even toothpicks with clay. Get ready for hands-on activities, shape-building challenges, and problem-solving quests that will make you a geometry guru! Let’s explore, create, and conquer the world of shapes together!

Addition Aces, Get Ready to Add Up the Fun! Join our Math Workshop Session and become a super strategic addition expert! We’ll unlock cool addition strategies that make sense and use awesome models to tackle addition problems like hundred charts, number lines, and base ten blocks! Discover clever ways to add numbers using your knowledge of place value – those hundreds, tens, and ones. Some of the addition strategies we will explore: breaking each number into its place value, making landmark or friendly numbers, doubles/near doubles, making tens, compensation, and adding up in chunks. You’ll even learn to do amazing mental math with just tens or just hundreds! Get ready for exciting games and activities that will make you a confident and fluent adder! Let’s add it up and become math superstars!

Get ready to become a fraction and decimal master! This engaging Math Workshop Session is designed for 5th and 6th graders to develop their skills in adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing fractions and decimals. Through hands-on activities and real-world applications, we’ll take the mystery out of fractions and decimals and discover how they work in everyday life. What We’ll Explore: Word Problems: Put your fraction and decimal skills to the test! We’ll tackle a variety of word problems that involve all four operations with fractions and decimals, helping you see how they are used in everyday situations. Foundations: We’ll start by building a solid understanding of what fractions represent, including mixed numbers and improper fractions as well as decimals. We’ll use visual models like fraction bars and circles, decimal grids, and number line models to explore equivalent fractions and decimals and compare their values. Adding and Subtracting: Get ready to add and subtract fractions with both like and unlike denominators as well as decimals! We’ll learn how to find common denominators and use visual aids to help us understand the process. We’ll also explore real-world scenarios where adding and subtracting fractions and decimals is essential. Multiplying: We’ll make multiplying fractions and decimals a breeze! Through hands-on activities, we’ll discover how to multiply fractions, decimals, and mixed numbers, and see how it relates to finding parts of a whole. Dividing: Unlocking the division of fractions and decimals! We’ll use visual models and real-world problems to understand the concept of dividing fractions and decimals and learn how to perform this operation with confidence.

Uncover the world of chance! This exciting Math Workshop Session is designed for 5th and 6th graders to introduce the fundamental concepts of probability. Through hands-on experiments and interactive activities, we’ll learn how to analyze the likelihood of events in everyday life. We’re also going to throw in some Algebra for fun! What We’ll Explore: What is Probability? We’ll begin by exploring the basic concepts of probability, including defining events, outcomes, and sample spaces. Theoretical vs. Experimental Probability: We’ll use experiments with coins, dice, and spinners to understand the difference between theoretical and experimental probability. Exploring Probability with Games: We’ll use games to explore how probability is used in everyday situations Probability in Real Life: We’ll explore how probability is used in everyday situations, such as weather forecasting, games, and decision-making. We’ll also learn about the concept of chance and how it affects our lives. Pattern Quest: Unveiling Relationships: Algebra is all about patterns! We’ll investigate number patterns, identify relationships, and learn how to represent them with algebraic rules and tables.

Wanna be a Fraction Fanatics? Get Ready to Explore Equivalent and Ordering Fractions. Are you ready to become a fraction expert? Join our Math Workshop Session and discover the secret world of equivalent fractions – fractions that look different but are actually the same! We’ll use hands-on and visual models to see how they work. Then, we’ll become fraction comparison champions, learning awesome strategies to compare fractions with different numerators and denominators, even using benchmarks like 1/2. We’ll also build fractions from smaller pieces and add and subtract them like master chefs combining ingredients. Get ready for fun challenges and activities that will make you a fraction superstar! Let’s explore, compare, add, and subtract our way to fraction fluency!

Get ready to measure up and dive into data in this exciting Math Workshop Session! We’ll learn to collect, organize, and interpret information, and use our measurement skills to explore the world around us. We’ll apply our understanding of measurement to solve problems involving distance, time, liquid volumes, mass, and money. We’ll explore different units of measurement within the same system. We’ll learn to tell time to the nearest minute and solve problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals. We’ll measure lengths using rulers and explore different units of measurement. We’ll work with liquid volumes and masses, learning to estimate and measure them. We’ll create and interpret scaled bar graphs to represent data. We’ll learn to represent and interpret data using line plots. Come join us and have fun!

Get ready for an exciting adventure in our Measurement and Data Detectives Math Workshop Session! We'll become measuring experts, using rulers, yardsticks, and measuring tapes to find out just how long things really are! We'll even see what happens when we measure the same thing with different-sized units! Then, we'll become estimation superstars, making smart guesses about lengths in inches, feet, centimeters, and meters! We'll compare objects to see how much longer one is than the other and use our adding and subtracting skills to solve length word problems. But that's not all! We'll become time-telling heroes, reading clocks to the nearest five minutes and understanding a.m. and p.m.! And get ready to become money-wise mavens, solving problems with dollars and cents. Finally, we'll become data detectives, creating cool graphs – picture graphs and bar graphs – to show what we've found! We'll even solve puzzles using the information in our graphs! Get ready for hands-on activities, measuring challenges, time-telling games, money mysteries, and data discoveries. Let's measure, graph, and explore together!

This engaging Math Workshop Session is designed for 5th and 6th graders to develop their skills in collecting, organizing, representing, and interpreting data, as well as mastering various measurement concepts. Through hands-on activities and real-world applications, we’ll discover how measurement and data help us make sense of the world around us. What We’ll Explore: Data Analysis Detectives: Once we have our graphs, it’s time to analyze! We’ll learn to interpret data presented in graphs, calculate measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode), and understand the concept of range. We’ll use our analytical skills to draw conclusions and make predictions based on the data. Measurement Mania: We’ll explore different units of measurement (customary and metric) for length, weight, volume, and time. Through practical activities, we’ll learn to convert between units, estimate measurements, and develop a strong sense of how different units relate to each other. Data Collection Expedition: Every great data exploration starts with collection! We’ll learn various methods for collecting data, such as surveys, experiments, and observations. We’ll design our own data collection tools and practice gathering accurate and relevant information. Graphing Gurus: We’ll transform our collected data into visual representations! We’ll create various types of graphs, including bar graphs, line graphs, pie charts, and histograms, and learn to choose the most appropriate graph for different types of data.

Explore the history of Cary, one of North Carolina's most interesting municipalities. From its earliest foundation, Cary has been a center of innovation, featuring one of the earliest public schools in North Carolina, as well as serving as the home of one of North Carolina's most impactful inventors of agricultural machinery, to the foundation of North Carolina's oldest racially integrated social club. Experience this guided jaunt written by a local historian and hosted by an enthusiastic, passionate, and knowledgeable guide. Some of the sites we will visit include the Page-Walker Hotel, Ashworth Drugs, the Ivey Ellington House, Pasmore House, Cary Arts Center, and more.