Developed and taught by HRS veteran teachers, Transition to Middle School Math is a 3-week, self-contained morning program (8:30 -- 12:00) for rising 6th graders. The primary purpose is to provide transitional support by previewing upcoming math challenges in the Head-Royce 6th Grade curriculum on a foundation review of essential skills. Areas for review will include 4-Operations with positive integers, fractions and decimals; expressing and evaluating patterns with variables; basic geometric formulas; basic data sets and graphing. The areas for preview will include estimation; 4-Operations with positive and negative integers, fractions and decimals; evaluating equations with multiple variables; formulas & properties; angle identification and basic constructions; data collection, verification and sampling; probability of simple events; problem solving strategy; and more. Great alone or in combination with afternoon athletics or workshops in the arts & technology for a unique summer balance. Full-day options available (7:30 AM -- 6:00 PM).  Choose one 2012 session: Session I (June 18 -- July 6) or Session II (July 9 -- July 27).  Minimum enrollment of 10 required for course to run (last year we reached maximum capacity of 20 students). May be taken in combination with Transition to Middle School English. Visit WWW.HEADROYCE.ORG/SUMMERPROGRAM or email summer@headroyce.org for more information.