May 5, 2020
Once in a Generation Opportunity —
The Summer Intensives
Over the years I have received numerous requests for providing refresher courses, in particular for content areas that are the last units covered in the big 12-day courses. It is a common outcome that the presentation of the last units of these big courses, such as The 4 Operations & 400 Math Facts and Fractions, Decimals, & Advanced Place Value courses, can be faster than the rest of the units in the courses, and therefore could benefit from a refresher “intensive” course that allows for expanding and maximizing the presentations of those units. I have always agreed with these requests, but have never been able to find the available open places in our already overcrowded yearly calendar – until now.
Since Overview, K-12, The 9 Lines Intensive, and Kindergarten are not possible to present in a distance learning/online format this summer (for explanation, please see: Part 2: MMR’s 2nd Response to COVID-19), and for the first time in 25 years, from June 8 through June 26, 2020, MMRI will present a series of refresher intensive mini-courses intended to expand and maximize several key units from the two major courses, The 4 Operations & 400 Math Facts and Fractions, Decimals, & Advanced Place Value.
All of the new 2020 Summer Institute Intensives will be presented in a distance learning/online format starting June 8 through 26. To accommodate participants’ needs to continue providing care for their families as well as sufficient time to maintain their work, the daily schedule of all the Summer Institute Intensives will be Mondays through Fridays from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM daily.
The focus of these new 2020 Summer Institute Intensives will be the most frequently requested units: Long Division, Decimal Long Division, and Fractions on the Number Line & Decimals on the Number Line. Each of these Summer Intensives is only available to those participants who have completed the respective courses that contained each unit. The Long Division Summer Intensive is only available to participants who have completed The Four Operations & 400 Math Facts and Decimal Long Division as well as Fractions on the Number Line & Decimals on the Number Line are only available to participants who have completed Fractions, Decimals & Advanced Place Value.
SPECIAL INTENSIVE DISCOUNTS* ~ SAVE OVER $299
*Intensive Discounts may not be combined
Early Bird Discount
Register for any 1 Intensive before the May 22nd deadline to SAVE 10%
Two Package Deal
Register for any 2 Intensives to SAVE 15%
Three Package Deal
Register for all 3 Intensives to SAVE 20%
Four Package Deal
SAVE over 30% on the 3 Intensives — $500 in savings — if you register for all 3 Intensives + Algebra 1 this summer
I appreciate all of your replies in support of my first COVID-19 message sent out on April 1st, and look forward to working online with many of you this summer. For those of you who are new to Making Math Real and previously registered for the summer’s originally scheduled Overview, K-12 and 9 Lines Intensive, or intended to, I hope you will join us this coming Fall 2020 and the Spring of 2021, in the hopes that we will be able to return to our traditional in-person course format. If you have already registered for Kindergarten, MMRI plans to offer this course in the Summer of 2021, and we look forward to seeing you then. MMRI will be in touch with all currently registered participants with the option for transferring fees to future offerings or receiving a full refund.
You can also visit the Calendar page of the website to view MMR’s “projected” schedules of courses that we hope to offer as time and the situation allows.
Be well and stay healthy,
David Berg, E.T.
Founder & Director of the Making Math Real Institute
2020 Summer Institute Intensives
Long Division Intensive
5-Days via Zoom
June 8-12 | 9am-12pm
Registration fee: $499
The focus of the Long Division Intensive will be on:
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- Reactivating the concrete connections of the concepts of division to the 9 Lines
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- Reviewing the 3 most essential fundamental levels for all of long division: level I: the intro to DMSChB (concrete to abstract), level II: the intro to “Bring Down” (semi-concrete to abstract), and level V: the intro to double-digit divisors (semi-abstract to abstract)
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- Extended focus on the 3 most challenging double-digit divisor levels: VI, VII, and VIII: the intro and applications of “When the estimator ‘tricks’ us”: how to identify and “fix the tricks”
- Comprehensive incrementation for estimating and checking quotients for levels VI-VIII
Decimal Long Division Intensive
5-Days via Zoom
June 15-19 | 9am-12pm
Registration fee: $499
The focus of the Decimal Long Division Intensive will be on:
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- Intro to the “Decimal Bakery”: connecting whole number long division to decimal long division
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- Comprehensive incrementation for each of the 6 levels of Decimal Long Division for single and double-digit divisors
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- Extended focus on the concept applications for level III: decimals in the dividend
- How to effectively use the supplemental MMR spiral binder, Decimal Long Division, Levels I-VI
Fractions on the Number Line & Decimal Line Intensive
5-Days via Zoom
June 22-26 | 9am-12pm
Registration fee: $499
The focus of the Fractions on the Number Line & Decimal Line Intensive will be on:
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- Levels I-XVI of fractions on the number line
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- Incrementations by grade level from 3rd – 5th grades
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- Labeling fraction number lines in standard form and common denominator form
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- Concept applications of extended fraction number lines
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- Intro to “tweeners” for decoding and encoding applications
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- Levels I-XVI of decimals on the number line
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- Incrementations by grade level from 4th – 5th grades
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- The essential fundamentals of decimals on the number line: labeling decimal number lines from landmarks to counting numbers, and from counting numbers to landmarks
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- Concept applications of extended decimal number lines
- Intro to “tweeners” for decoding and encoding applications