from first grade to middle school, the incremental building of math proficiency, following a creative path of number discovery in counting fingers and things around us, that oneness has a different personality from twoness or more, and developing an understanding of arithmetic operations; working our way up to pre-algebra with the relationship of fractions, decimals, and percents, to ratios and proportions; the Pythagorean theorem; introductory algebra with variables, expressions, terms, functions, x and y graphs, slope, inequalities; geometry covers artistic geometry and constructions of circles, polygons circumscribed within circles, parts of a circle, quadrilaterals, angles, calculations of area and volume
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