About the Course
This course allows students in grade 2 to continue to learn from home while using Investigations in Number, Data, and Space as a resource. Students work side by side with Dr. Deena while solidifying numeracy concepts deemed appropriate by the U.S. Common Core Standards.
Dr. Deena Amiry
Dr. Deena Amiry earned her B.S. from Georgetown University with a certificate in education and a medal for outstanding achievement in student teaching. She earned her Masters’ degree from Middlebury College and her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in Romance Languages, where she served as a lecturer of French language and literature. Dr. Amiry worked in several private schools in the United States, including the prestigious Dalton School in New York City. At Dalton, alongside teaching responsibilities, Dr. Amiry served as Dean of the 9th grade and department chair of middle and high school foreign languages.
In Egypt, Dr. Deena Amiry co-founded and headed the International School of Egypt in New Cairo in 2009. In 2012, Dr. Deena moved on and founded the Young Scholars of Egypt (YSE) microschool, an educational program for children ages 3-18 that aims to provide students with an education that prepares them for the 21st century. In 2019, alongside ACT’s founding team, Dr. Deena brought YSE under ACT’s umbrella to create a network of connected microschools.
Course Curriculum
- 10 Cubes (4:04)
- Cover Up (5:18)
- Number Riddles (6:19)
- Today's Number and 100s Chart (6:02)
- Pennies, Nickels, Dimes, and Quarters (8:06)
- Are there enough? (4:13)
- Trading Coins (6:21)
- Pocket Day (4:19)
- Plus 1 or 2 Bingo
- Counting Strips and More (7:04)
- Play Make 10 and 10s Go Fish
- Combinations of 10 (3:01)
- Focus on fluency: addition cards
- Story Problems and More (14:28)
- Magic Pot and More (8:20)
- Introduction to fractions (11:18)
- What is half? (6:40)
- Sharing Balloons and Pennies (5:27)
- one and a half (pp. 16 - 18) (5:23)
- making fourths (3:10)
- fraction flags (3:29)
- more fraction flags! (pp. 27- 31)
- Color Them In! and Friends at Play (pp. 32 - 34) (5:23)
- Sharing Lunch and More (pp. 35 and 36) (6:22)
- Fractions All Around Us (p. 37) (3:14)
- Partners and Teams (pp. 1 - 6) (8:57)
- Adding Even and Odd Numbers (part 1) (11:40)
- Adding Even and Odd Numbers (part 2) (5:14)
- More Even and Odd Numbers (5:57)
- Telling Time and Working With Money (13:56)
- Subtracting by 10s (6:12)
- Pinching Pennies and Paper Clips (subtracting with the number line) (6:04)
- Subtraction Story Problems (7:45)
- More Story Problems (5:56)
- Writing Subtraction Story Problems (4:44)
- Adding Using Two Different Strategies (5:18)
- More Story Problems (5:42)
- Last Lesson of Unit 8!! (2:23)