Activites, Camps and After School Classes in Cary, NC

Get ready for a fun-filled week of geometric discovery! This summer camp is designed to introduce students to the exciting world of geometry through hands-on activities, creative projects, and collaborative challenges. We'll move beyond the basics, exploring shapes in two and three dimensions, and uncovering the geometry hidden in everyday objects. Campers will develop spatial reasoning skills, problem-solving abilities, and a deeper appreciation for the shapes that surround us. Just Some of the Activities and Projects: • Pentominoes Puzzles: Students explore investigations using pentomino puzzles developing spatial reasoning and problem-solving skills. • Pattern Block Creations: Campers use pattern blocks to create designs, explore symmetry, and learn about tessellations. • Toothpick and Clay Structures: Students build 3D shapes using toothpicks and clay, learning about vertices, edges, and faces. • Mystery Shapes: A game where students use clues and deductive reasoning to identify hidden geometric shapes. • Artifact Bag: Campers collect everyday objects and analyze their geometric properties, connecting geometry to the real world. • Geometry Games: Throughout the week, campers will play various geometry-themed games to reinforce concepts and make learning fun.

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.

Get ready for a fun-filled week of geometric discovery! This summer camp is designed to introduce students to the exciting world of geometry through hands-on activities, creative projects, and collaborative challenges. We'll move beyond the basics, exploring shapes in two and three dimensions, and uncovering the geometry hidden in everyday objects. Campers will develop spatial reasoning skills, problem-solving abilities, and a deeper appreciation for the shapes that surround us. Just Some of the Activities and Projects: • Pentominoes Puzzles: Students explore investigations using pentomino puzzles developing spatial reasoning and problem-solving skills. • Pattern Block Creations: Campers use pattern blocks to create designs, explore symmetry, and learn about tessellations. • Toothpick and Clay Structures: Students build 3D shapes using toothpicks and clay, learning about vertices, edges, and faces. • Mystery Shapes: A game where students use clues and deductive reasoning to identify hidden geometric shapes. • Artifact Bag: Campers collect everyday objects and analyze their geometric properties, connecting geometry to the real world. • Geometry Games: Throughout the week, campers will play various geometry-themed games to reinforce concepts and make learning fun.

Get ready to multiply your math skills! This fun-filled summer camp is designed to help students master multiplication facts and strategies through engaging games, hands-on activities, and collaborative problem-solving. We'll move beyond rote memorization, exploring the patterns and relationships within multiplication, and building a strong foundation for future math success and have fun along the way. Just Some of the Activities and Projects: • Things That Come in Groups: Students explore real-world examples of multiplication by identifying items that come in groups (e.g., pairs of shoes, six-packs of yogurt...) and calculating the total number. • Candy Boxes: This activity involves solving multiplication problems presented in the context of candy boxes, helping students visualize multiplication in a practical scenario. • Exploring Patterns in Multiplication Chart: Campers investigate the multiplication chart to discover patterns, relationships, and strategies for memorizing and making sense of multiplication facts. • Four Strikes and You're Out: A fun logical reasoning game that helps students recall multiplication facts. • Number Talks: Short discussions focused on mental computation strategies for multiplication. • Which Does Not Belong?: Students analyze sets of numbers or multiplication equations to identify the one that doesn't fit, promoting critical thinking. • 3 Act Tasks: Students engage in real-world problem-solving scenarios that require them to apply multiplication skills. • Multiplication Manipulatives: Students will use the multiplication tools of Cuisenaire rods, inch tiles, grid paper, and more throughout the week to visualize multiplication concepts, explore arrays, and discover multiplication patterns.

Uncover the amazing world of numbers in The Secret Life of Numbers! Young mathematicians will explore hidden patterns, solve number mysteries, and embark on exciting adventures with friendly numbers all while using tools to make sense. Get ready to play number detective and discover how numbers come alive all around us using tools like ten frames, hundred charts, and more! Just Some of the Activities and Projects: • Number Routines: Daily brain energizing number riddles, puzzles, and games to wake up the mathematical brain. • Math Tools: Campers will be provided with math tools to model their mathematical thinking, make connections among math concepts, and to use while solving challenging problems, • Investigations: Solve interesting, engaging investigations that involve problem solving and critical thinking with mathematical tools. • 3 Act Tasks: Students engage in real-world problem-solving scenarios that require them to apply operational (addition and subtraction) skills.

Get ready for a week of thrilling geometric adventures! Forget boring textbooks, we dive into the fascinating world of shapes, spaces, and structures through fun, interactive, and hands-on activities. Imagine building your own geometric designs with a variety of tools, designing a tessellated masterpiece, and solving geometric investigations. This isn't about memorizing formulas; it's about seeing, touching, and experiencing geometry in action. Just Some of the Activities and Projects: • Collaborate and Discover: Work in teams to tackle exciting challenges and share your geometric insights. • Become Shape Detectives: Uncover the hidden geometry in everyday objects and the natural world. • Master the Art of Construction: Build 3D models, explore patterns in geometry, and solve reasoning problems through engaging projects. • Design and Create: Put your geometric knowledge to the test by designing patterns, solving puzzles, and even creating your own geometric art.

Unleash your inner math whiz this summer at our exciting and engaging Fractions Fanatics Summer Camp! Throw away any fear of fractions you might have – we believe that understanding fractions should be an adventure and we are here to support your learning! This action-packed camp is designed to make learning about fractions a blast. Through a dynamic blend of hands-on activities, exciting games, and vibrant visuals, campers will build a solid foundation in fraction concepts and confidently learn to operate with them. Just Some of the Activities and Projects: • Boost Confidence: Build a positive attitude towards fractions and develop problem-solving skills that will benefit in the classroom and beyond. • Manipulate and Master: Explore fractions using tangible materials like colorful personalized fraction strips, Cuisenaire rods, pattern blocks, and more. See and touch fractions to truly understand their meaning, compare their sizes, and perform operations with them. • Game On, Fractions Strong! Learn through play with specially designed fraction games, solve engaging fraction investigations, and interactive challenges that make exploring fractions feel like pure fun. • Visualize Victory: Discover the power of visual models like fraction circles and rectangles, number lines, and area models to clearly see and compare fractions, making even tricky concepts easy to grasp. • Conquer Operations: Opportunities to operate with fractions with confidence through engaging activities that connect these operations to real-world scenarios. • Become a Fraction Expert: Develop a deep understanding of equivalent fractions, simplifying fractions, and comparing fractions in a supportive and encouraging environment using visual and hands-on models.

Get ready to sharpen your minds and have a blast! In Math Mania, we'll take math off the page and bring it to life through exciting games, brain-bending number and visual puzzles, investigations, and hands-on activities. This camp is designed to make math fun, engaging, and relevant to everyday life. Just Some of the Activities and Projects: • Brainstorming Opening: What does a great game player look like? (attributes, character traits, etc.) • Number Routines: Daily brain energizing number riddles, puzzles, and games to wake up the mathematical brain. • GAME ON: Campers will get a real workout each day playing math games with partners and in small groups where learning math is fun. • Mind-Bending Challenges: Solve investigations that involve problem solving and critical thinking. • Math Game Design: Students will work in groups to create their own math game, including rules, materials, and a way to win.

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.

Third & Fourth Grade Number Ninjas, Power Up Your Place Value! Get ready for an awesome Math Workshop Session where we’ll become masters of number sense and place value recognizing that in a multi-digit whole number, a digit in one place represents ten times what it represents in the place to its right. We’ll explore the amazing world of numbers, understanding what each digit really means, and read and write multi-digit whole numbers using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form. We’ll compare two multi-digit numbers based on meanings of the digits in each place, using >, =, and < symbols to record the results of comparisons.! Then, we’ll level up our addition and subtraction skills with whole numbers, discovering cool strategies to solve problems with efficiency and accuracy! 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. 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. Get ready for engaging games and activities that will boost your number smarts and make you confident problem solvers!

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!

Clean off your magnifying glass and embark on a thrilling mathematical journey in Cracking the Code on Math Investigations! Fifth and sixth graders will navigate exciting challenges, solve complex challenging problems, and discover the wonders of numbers. Through engaging activities and collaborative projects, campers will sharpen their critical thinking skills and expand their mathematical horizons. Help us crack the code of seeing ourselves as confident, capable mathematicians ready to solve investigations. Just Some of the Activities and Projects: • Number Routines: Daily brain energizing number riddles, puzzles, and games to wake up the mathematical brain. • Math Tools: Campers will be provided with math tools to model their mathematical thinking, make connections among math concepts, and to use while solving challenging problems, • Investigations: Solve interesting, engaging investigations that involve problem solving and critical thinking with a variety of mathematical tools. • 3 Act Tasks: Students engage in real-world problem-solving scenarios that require them to apply operational (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) skills.

Get ready for some number fun, Kindergarten, first grade, and second grade mathematicians! In this Math Workshop Session we will explore number sense, the understanding of numbers and their relationships, enabling flexible and adaptable thinking about numbers and their operations. We’re going on a counting quest – mastering counting by twos, fives, tens, and even hundreds! We’ll become place value pros, understanding how many hundreds, tens, and ones make up numbers up to 1000! Think of it like unlocking secret number codes! Then, prepare to become addition and subtraction rockstars! We’ll use our awesome adding skills to solve bigger problems, discovering strategic ways to find sums and differences. Get ready to explore number relationships, compare like math detectives, and become mental math wizards with ones, tens, and hundreds! Join us for games and challenges that will make you a true math champion! Let’s count, compare, add, and subtract our way to success! We'll play games, use math tools like number paths, ten frames, counters, number lines, counters, hundred charts, and more to make learning numbers an adventure! Don't miss out on the fun – let's count, operate, and explore together!

Calling all Geometry enthusiasts, get ready to explore shapes of all sizes, both two-dimensional and three-dimensional! We'll dive into shapes, learning how to put them together to make new ones and even take them apart! We'll learn about their sides, edges, vertices, corners, and how they're different. We'll even discover how to build new shapes by putting smaller ones together and how to divide them into equal parts like halves, thirds, and fourths! We will support our geometric understanding through the use of math tools including pattern blocks, plane and solid shapes, and even create our own shapes with toothpicks and clay. Get ready for hands-on activities, shape sorting challenges, and building adventures that will make you a geometry superstar!

Multiplication Mavericks, Get Ready to Multiply! Join our Math Workshop Session and become a whiz at multiplying numbers including those multiples of 10 (like 20, 50, and 90). We’ll use clever strategies based on place value – understanding those tens and ones – and the magic of multiplication properties to solve problems like a pro! We will use conceptual understanding with visuals and hands-on tools to make sense of multiplication like arrays, area model, and more. Other multiplication strategies we will explore: repeated addition or skip counting, partial products as it relates to the distributive property, doubling and halving, and breaking factors into smaller factors as it relates to the associative property. Get ready for fun games and activities that will make you a multiplication superstar! Let’s multiply and master those multiplication facts together! We will also make a case for the connection between multiplication and division. Some division strategies we will explore: repeated subtraction or sharing/dealing out, partial quotients, and proportional reasoning. Join us!

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 a fun-filled week of geometric discovery! This summer camp is designed to introduce students to the exciting world of geometry through hands-on activities, creative projects, and collaborative challenges. We'll move beyond the basics, exploring shapes in two and three dimensions, and uncovering the geometry hidden in everyday objects. Campers will develop spatial reasoning skills, problem-solving abilities, and a deeper appreciation for the shapes that surround us. Just Some of the Activities and Projects: • Pentominoes Puzzles: Students explore investigations using pentomino puzzles developing spatial reasoning and problem-solving skills. • Pattern Block Creations: Campers use pattern blocks to create designs, explore symmetry, and learn about tessellations. • Toothpick and Clay Structures: Students build 3D shapes using toothpicks and clay, learning about vertices, edges, and faces. • Mystery Shapes: A game where students use clues and deductive reasoning to identify hidden geometric shapes. • Artifact Bag: Campers collect everyday objects and analyze their geometric properties, connecting geometry to the real world. • Geometry Games: Throughout the week, campers will play various geometry-themed games to reinforce concepts and make learning fun.

Calling all math enthusiasts! Get ready for a week of brain-boosting fun at Game ON!: Math Games Edition. This camp is designed to ignite a love of math through engaging games and interactive challenges. Students will strengthen their problem-solving skills, build number sense, and discover that math is an exciting adventure! Just Some of the Activities and Projects: • Brainstorming Opening: What does a great game player look like? (attributes, character traits, etc.) • Number Routines: Daily brain energizing number riddles, puzzles, and games to wake up the mathematical brain and make connections among math concepts. • GAME ON: Campers will get a real workout each day playing math games with partners and in small groups where learning math is fun. • Math Game Design: Students will work in groups to create their own math game, including rules, materials, and a way to win.