Learning Abacus can be the key to establish concrete number sense and accelerate math learning from young ages. Abacus provides countable beads for kids to visualize numbers on a base-10 system. Consequently, students develop an abacus image to perform mental calculations. The ability of visualizing dynamic beads induces human creativity and inspiration. Abacus math effectively motivates IQ effect through multi-dimensional nature.

The summer program is an excellent opportunity to accelerate mental math skills by completing 3 months worth lessons in 4 weeks. This will be the most worthwhile summer program that you have ever attended!

It is unfortunate that many public schools failed to teach students how to effectively work on critical thinking problem at their early ages. Students are experiencing obstacles and frustration with even simple 2-step math problems. Analytical and logical approaches are especially emphasized in this level. Students will be exposed with different type of Math problems and be guided with multiple approaches step-by-step that lead students to a better thinking direction.

Critical thinking and problem solving skills are the focus of the program. We have classes for 3rd grade and up. Students will learn to find a pattern, sketch a diagram, make a list or a table, working backward, and use reasoning to solve a problem. Math is challenging but fun to work with!

Learning to solve problems is the underlying reason for studying mathematics. Critical thinking and problem solving skills are the focus of the program. Summer is the perfect timing to exercise and enhance the problem solving skills. Through the training of the Mathlete Preps, students are prepared for advanced critical and problem solving skills. This program will be very beneficial to those who are targeting at prestigious math competitions which are above and beyond the standardized exams like AIMS tests.

The Mathlete Preps are offered to those students whose math skills are much ahead of the lower end of the grade ranges and the ages are below the higher end of the grade range. If your child needs arithmetic help or remedial help in basic concepts, you may want to consider the Mental Math Boost Camp or the Singapore Math + programs instead.

Several hundred of problems for each math competition will be studied and solved during the 18 hours. Many formula, tricks, and tips in solving math problems will be derived and practiced.

For 2nd to 3rd grade students, the problems will be mostly from the Noetic, CML, Math Kangaroo, Online Math League, and other math competitions.

For 4th to 6th grade students, the problems will be mostly from Noetic, CML, and the Math Olympiads for Elementary and Middle Schools (MOEM) contests.

For 6th to 8th grade students, the problems will be mostly from Mathcounts and AMC 8.

For high school students, we will focus on the programs from Mandelbrot, AMC10, AMC12, and AIME.

Classical literatures will be discussed and analyzed in the class for students to know how to find the clues and inference of a passage.

Students will be guided to express themselves and explore different styles of writing like poetry, short-stories, informative, and narrative writing. Our teachers will hold students accountable for very common sense organizational and stylistic techniques. Students will be empowered with confidence in their writing. Students will produce multi-page collection of writing projects within the camp. The writing projects will be broken down into several units: Introduction, Researching/Brainstorming/Interviewing, Drafting, Editing, Finalizing, and Publishing. Real writing is not finished until it is published!

For those who are second grade and younger or learning English as the second language, we will teach them the phonograms and the most frequently used English words according to the Spalding Method. The introduction of these words improves pronunciation, spelling, and reading comprehension. Student will be

Instructed by Ms. Blake/Ms. Buchanan/Ms. Christian/Ms. McMillan

START EARLY and obtain high SAT scores by the Fall of your Junior year! A 3 hours/session (1.5 hours for Math and 1.5 hours for English) with a total of 12 sessions plus four simulation tests will be delivered through out the SAT Camp. Experienced teachers with years of teaching in SAT math, reading, and writing will help you boost up the SAT scores significantly.

• Concepts tested in the exams will be explained and test-taking techniques will be introduced.
• 4 REAL SAT tests will be conducted in each week with FREE of charge

Don't let the SAT essay bring you down. This course will help you master the basics of essay writing: thesis, support, transitions and conclusion.

Learn how to spend less time reading the passage, and more time resarching the questions and attacking the answer choices.

Effectively and insightfully addresses the writing task; organized and fully developed, using clearly appropriate examples to support ideas; displays constant facility in the use of language, demonstrating variety in sentence structure and a range of vocabulary

1. Writing Multiple Choice Introduction
2. Subject-Verb Agreement
3. Pronouns
4. The Active vs. the Passive Voice
5. Parallel Structure
6. Wordiness
7. Verb Usage
8. Sentence Structure Errors: Run-on and Fragment Sentences
9. Improving Sentence Errors
10. Identifying Sentence Errors
11. Improving Paragraphs
12. Pacing
13. Presentation
14. Audience
15. Writing Well Key Ingredients - No Thesis, No Points
16. All Paragraphs and Sentences for the Greater Good
17. Provide Concrete Examples: Avoid Generalizations
18. Use Clincher Sentences to Conclude Ideas: Avoid a Full Conclusion
19. Length: The Measure of Success
20. Not the Luck of the Draw: Think Universal Examples

It's not only about learning more algebra, but also knowing how to approach a standardized test. It is not only for how many questions you can answer correctly, but also how to minimize the mistakes you may make.

Since high school students have less academic work in the summer, summer becomes the best time to concentrate on SAT test preparation. If you are 10th grade and older or are advanced in Math, taking the SAT preparation course will be a good idea for your summer plan.

Algebra I and Geometry will be reviewed and vast amount of SAT examples will be applied with unique stratgy.

AP is accepted by more than 3,600 colleges and universities worldwide for college credit, advanced placement, or both on the basis of successful AP Exam grades. This includes over 90 percent of four-year institutions in the United States.

Each AP course has a corresponding exam that participating schools worldwide administer in May. Except for AP Studio Art, which is a portfolio assessment, each AP Exam contains a free-response section (essays, problem solving, oral responses, etc.) as well as multiple-choice questions.

Physics B covers a wide range of topics, but the questions are not too mathematically sophisticated. The areas include Netonia Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics & Thermal Physics, Electricity & Magnetism, Waves, Optics, and Atomic & Nuclear Physics

Physics C covers a smaller range of topics, but the questions are more challenging and calculus is used widely. It is composed of two separate exams: one in Mechanics (Newton's Laws, Work, Engergy, & Power, Linear Momentum, Circular Motion & Rotation, and Oscillations & Gravitation) and one in Electricity and Magnetism (Electrostatics, Conductors & Capacitors, Electric Circuits, Magnetic Fields, and Electromagnetism).

According to the guideline of Collegeboard, goals of this course have been set for percentage coverage of three general areas: Molecules and Cells, 25%, Heredity and Evolution, 25%, Organisms and Populations, 50%. These three areas have been subdivided into major categories with percentage goals for each major category specified.

Calculus AB will cover Limits and their Properties, Differentiation, Applications of Differentiation, Integration, Logarithmic, Exponential, and Other Transcendental Functions, Differential Equations, and Applications of Integration.

Calculus BC will cover content of AP Calculus AB, Differential Equations, Integration Techniques, L'Hôpital's Rule, and Improper Integrals, Infinite Series, Conics, Parametric Equations, and Polar Coordinates, and Vectors and the Geometry of Space.

Use the curriculum particularly available at IQ Abacus, getting ready for the Chinese AP exam in a short time becomes realistic! In addition, our founder, Ms. Chiou, has been invited by College Board to be the reader of AP Chinese for three years. Under Ms. Chiou's leadership, our AP Chinese program will be tailored to fully meet the requirement and directions of the exam.

The “High Speed Chinese Program” at IQ Abacus uses the best textbook available on the teaching of Chinese literacy. It contains 4,000 Chinese characters but none of them have been used more than once. It takes a beginner only one or two years to grasp 4,000 characters, compared to the curricula used else where, that require 6 to 12 years to master 2,500~3,755 characters.