The purpose of the program is to provide remedial and/or enrichment language arts and mathematics instruction to nonpublic school students. The major drive of the program is to provide diagnostic, prescriptive, remedial, enrichment and evaluative language arts and mathematics services on an individual or small group basis for students attending nonpublic schools. The program deals primarily with students who require corrective or remedial instruction. The majority of the students are seen 2 or 3 times per week for periods averaging 30-35 minutes each.

Challenge 24 is a math card game in which the object is to find a way to manipulate four integers so that the end result totals the number “24”. This game was played in Shanghai in the 1960’s and commercialized by Dr. Robert Sun in 1988. When the game was introduced to the Erie Diocese, OLMC was one of the pilot schools. Over the years, the game has helped students develop their basic skills of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in a fast and fun game. There is a yearly competition among schools.

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Mathcounts is a program designed to challenge the 6th, 7th and 8th graders in math at the middle school level. This is a competition in problem solving. The competition occurs at school, regional, state and national levels. In preparing for the contest, students will practice solving worksheets provide by MATHCOUNTS Program. Many skills that are usually taught at the high school level are used to solve some of these problems. The result of this program, is an increase in the number of students going on to college looking at careeers that involve math, science and engineering.

Saxon Math is focused on student success. The unique structure of Saxon’s mathematics instruction promotes student success through the sound educational practices of incremental development and continual review. With incremental development, topics are developed in small steps spread over time. Through continual review, previously presented topics are practiced frequently and extensively over the year.

This program provides the time and experience students need to learn skills and concepts necessary for success in mathematics, whether those skills are applied in quantitative disciplines or in the mathematical demands of everyday life. Saxon Philosophy.