Category: Math Enrichment

October 23, 2019Computer Programming, Critical Thinking, Math Enrichmentby IMACS Staff

Crazy Stories You Won’t Hear Anywhere Else

Every school, tutoring center, and enrichment program has nice stories of former students. But only IMACS has crazy stories like these! Erik’s Crazy Story Erik was an IMACS Math Enrichment student years ago. Now he’s a sophomore in college and his mom wrote to tell us that he “just got a 100% on a Number Theory exam and he said …

Don't assume that she's not a math person

October 1, 2019Critical Thinking, Math Enrichment, STEM Educationby IMACS Staff

Some Kids’ Stories Start Rough, but Have Happy Endings

At IMACS, we’ve seen a lot. Girls whose parents have decided they were bad at math … at age 8. Children who couldn’t handle getting anything wrong … ever. Students who were great at memorizing, but got crushed the first time they had to actually think. Yes, we’ve seen all that and more. The good news is that we have …

August 11, 2019Critical Thinking, Math Enrichment, STEM Educationby Sports and Activities Magazine

Create Better Thinkers for Life

Originally published in the Sports & Activities Plantation Directory, August – October 2019.Register for a FREE class at IMACS! Located in an unsuspecting strip center in the heart of our city is an institute of higher learning for elementary, middle and high school aged students. While it has been a cornerstone of math and computer science for Plantation children …

February 20, 2019Logical Reasoning, Math Enrichment, STEM Education, Success Storiesby Cole Travers

EMF Math vs. The Traditional Approach to Learning Mathematics

Throughout my three years in EMF, I got to learn mathematics in the way that a mathematician understands it. Now that I am in 9th grade and in a traditional math class, I can compare this experience to my EMF experience. The main difference is that EMF focused on the why of math, while traditional classes focus on the how …

October 2, 2014Computer Programming, Gifted And Talented, Math Enrichmentby IMACS Staff

Challenge Bright Minds Early for Lifelong Resilience

Once upon a time, there was a bright student who first came to IMACS when he was already in high school. He was interested in learning to program and had heard high praise for our University Computer Science courses. The class began smoothly as teacher and pupil progressed through the principles of computational thinking. This student, who was used to …

Math Enrichment

Crazy Stories You Won’t Hear Anywhere Else

Some Kids’ Stories Start Rough, but Have Happy Endings

Create Better Thinkers for Life

EMF Math vs. The Traditional Approach to Learning Mathematics

Challenge Bright Minds Early for Lifelong Resilience

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