How many times have you heard someone say, "I'm not a math person"? At Cape Ann Waldorf School, everyone is a math person. In our early childhood classrooms, students develop the foundation for math with rhythmic activity, movement, games, real work, and lots of play. From early childhood across the grades, the Cape Ann Waldorf School math curriculum unfolds in a meaningful and coordinated way. Students explore and practice math in ways that fully engage them, through movement, artistic work, music, and practical activities. This multi-sensory, experiential approach leads to stronger understanding, better recall and eager anticipation for taking on their next challenge.
Inside Cape Ann Waldorf classrooms, you will find students involved in math lessons filled with number journeys, mental math, games and puzzles, and other activities that develop competence in arithmetic, geometry, and algebra. And our math lessons take place outdoors as well. Our beautiful 10-acre campus offers students many opportunities to observe, experience and appreciate mathematics in the natural world.
As students master their foundational skills, they are poised to apply their insight to increasingly complex mathematical problems and concepts. Clear, flexible, imaginative thinking—a hallmark of Waldorf graduates—equips them for lifelong learning and excellence in math.
As our graduates enter high school math courses in Algebra I, Geometry, or Algebra II, often at the honors level, they continue to approach math with the curiosity, discipline and enthusiasm that are so critical to long-term success in any subject area. If you tell a Cape Ann Waldorf student that you are “not a math person,” however, they just might not know what you mean!
To learn more, come to see “Waldorf Math in Action” at our Open House on Saturday, March 15 from 9AM – 12PM. Details at capeannwaldorf.org.
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Saturday, March 15, 2014 from 9am to noon.
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978-927-1936
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