Why SMA - Sugarloaf Math Academy

Why Sugarloaf Math Academy

Our teaching philosophy at Sugarloaf Math Academy is to provide a classroom instruction that demonstrates high quality experiences of rigorous dialogue, critical thinking skills and engagement strategies that stimulate substantive and intellectual thinking. We provide student centered lesson activities that promote differentiated instruction based on students’ skills, knowledge, culture, language proficiency, and needs in relation to the curriculum.

How are we Unique

We go a step further

In additional to academic support, we go a step further to personalize student’s learning through continual progress monitoring, assessments and data analysis.

We offer the services below to individualize every students learning needs:

Parent-Teacher Conferences

Direct contact with students school Math Teacher on a weekly basis

Up to date track record on student work

Weekly notes and progress monitoring

Data Collection on Students progress

Continual Assessments – Pre, post, summative and informal assessments

Weekly target objective

To That End, Here is What We Offer

Varied Instructional Strategies

We use different instructional modalities such as visual, auditory, hands-on, kinesthetic, and technology based instruction. We build upon students' existing knowledge and skills and use a variety of research-based instructional strategies and resources.

Differentiated Instruction

We challenge our students with higher order thinking that develops their analytical and cognitive skills. We challenge them with real time projects, math puzzles, hand on math activities, complex real life math problem solving, designing and creating formulas and charts, etc.

Technology Based Instruction

Technology and education are the simian twins of 21st century. We use digital resources like Promethean, Smart board, Class XP and performance tracking software for a friendly and visually receptive ways of teaching and providing individualized performance based feedback and interventions.

Real Life Application Based Learning

Mathematics learning will become more meaningful if there is a real life example or component being applied to the concept. Every mathematical concept is tied to a real applicable component where students solve, design and formulate solutions to resolve a complex situation. Such application based learning goes a long way in creating a strong foundation for mathematical aptitude.