Page 5 - De Anza College Summer Academy Catalog 2023

These classes will be taught at Cupertino Middle School and Hyde Middle School.
PAINTING AND PRINTMAKING
Entering Grades 6-9 – Learn how to do silkscreen printing and develop your personal painting style! Students will practice contemporary and traditional painting and printmaking techniques and examine works by artists from around the world. Creative expression, cultural awareness, problem-solving and critical thinking will be emphasized and encouraged.
COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
PYTHON PROGRAMMING: BEGINNING [2 HOURS] Entering Grades 6-9 – This course introduces students to basic elements of the Python programming language, including data types, control structures, algorithm development and program design with functions. Students will be defining new object classes, creating interactive applications with buttons, learning about animation and creating an interactive game using Python. The instructor will also cover fundamental principles of object-oriented programming, as well as data and information processing techniques.
MATHEMATICS
*Meets Common Core Standards
The Math Preparation series is designed to introduce key Common Core math concepts from the upcoming year while reinforcing the prior year’s most essential carryover skills.
MATH BOOST: GRADE 5*
Entering Grade 5 – This class will help students increase their fluency with fractions, including addition and subtraction of fractions and multiplication and division of unit fractions with whole numbers. The instructor
will also cover division extended to two-digit divisors, decimal fractions integrated in the place value system and operations with decimals to the hundredth place. Students will learn problem-solving strategies and deepen their understanding of area and volume.
MATH PREPARATION: GRADE 6*
Entering Grade 6 – Students in this course will apply
their knowledge of multiplication and division to
solve ratio and rate problems. They will extend their
knowledge of fractions and learn to explain, in their
own words, how dividing and multiplying fractions
follows logical mathematical processes. Students will
also learn problem-solving strategies and deepen their
understanding of rational numbers, absolute value,
Register at deanza.edu/academy expressions and equations.
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June 20-July 28
GRADES 5-9
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS