Tuesday, July 20, 1999
School's in session for Heritage Hill kids
Math new to summer classes
BY BERNIE MIXON
The Cincinnati Enquirer
SPRINGDALE — In her bright, colorful classroom, Suzanne Stratton uses birthdays, shapes and colors to teach math to first-grade students.
By graphing Gummi Bears and M&M's, the soon-to-be second-graders are learning basic concepts that they will use when learning higher math concepts.
The math class is part a full schedule of summer school programs offered at Heritage Hill Elementary that educators hope will keep children learning during the lazy days of summer.
“Kids who have not mastered literacy and language and math regress over the summer if they don't have any type of enrichment or classes or don't go to a camp,” said Lon Stettler, instructional programs coordinator for math, science and gifted education for Princeton City Schools. “We are trying to put a dent in the amount of regressing they do over the summer.”
The district offers summer school for students in grades 1-6 who need remediation and those who want to take classes for enrichment.
The second summer session enrolled 83 students
in math and 66 in a reading/writing workshop. In the first session, the programs ran close to 85 students each. Many students take bothsessions.
Mathematics is a new summer offering.
“We had parents requesting math last summer, and it was not available,” Mr. Stettler said.
The math component uses an interactive approach by having students analyze data, see patterns and explore math relationships.
“The students learn math has a place in life in everything you do,” Ms. Stratton said. “The students see there is an order to the world, patterning, shapes and sizes.”
The course focuses on the math concepts in the curriculum: patterns, relations and functions; problem-solving; number relations (arithmetic); algebra; geometry; measurement; data analysis and probability; estimation and mental computation.
The reading/writing workshop helps students to develop reading comprehension and writing skills.
“We feel that in addition to reading and writing, the mathematics are so critical (for a student) to do well on the fourth- and sixth-grade proficiency tests,” Mr. Stettler said.
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