Free Asian Math's Catch-up Year for 5th-Graders

Schedule and Materials for School Year 2022-2023

All lectures at 4:30-5:30 pm PST / 7:30-8:30 pm EST on Wednesdays and Fridays (dates subject to change)

We use YouTube Live Streaming to deliver live lectures; the channel is here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkm3aZgjxLuBzF9DxXseikw

A continuously updated playback recording list is here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJyJulVSy504IhAIdTqSxYo-of9LuoTeo

To level the ground and ensure that beginning sixth graders can study Free Asian Math, which is admittedly harder than their school math, we need a "catch-up year" to prepare many students who otherwise would not be ready. From September, 2022 to May, 2023, we offer a free 30-week program (two free lectures per week) to any 5th grader in the nation to cover the following:

(1) A formal introduction of the real axis. Based on the real axis, we will revisit, review, and re-interpret whole numbers and their basic arithmetical operations, all with reasonable rigor.

(2) Studying some rudimentary number theory: divisibility, GCD, and LCM.

(3) Studying fractions (and decimal fractions as a special case), following the path outlined in Prof. Hung-Hsi Wu's “Understanding Numbers in Elementary School Mathematics.”

(4) Studying many word problems with only arithmetical methods (with a plan to revisit them with algebraic methods in the 6th grade).