Courses & Workshops

Helicon, Inc., offers a variety of programs:

  • Day of Memorization
    free day-long workshop designed to help people master the Times Tables.
     

  • Day of Remediation
    free day-long class designed to help people improve certain “old school” math skills so that they can raise their scores on the Tests of Adult Basic Education (TABE™) Mathematics Computation assessment. The focus is on promoting student proficiency in such topics as: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of decimals; long division; and percents—especially percents—without the use of a calculator
    Pre-requisite for admission to the Day of Remediation -- Math: Must be able to score 90% [no more than four wrong/blank answers] in one minute or less on a Times Tables Quiz.
     

  • Female Math Course
    free eight-week course designed to help women pass the mathematics sections of such exams as: the GED math test, the CUNY Math Skills Assessment Test, the quantitative sections of the GMAT and GRE. It will also help women gain admission to “high-end” occupational-training or apprenticeship programs.
    Pre-requisite for admission to the Female Math Course: Must be able to score 90% [no more than four wrong/blank answers] in one minute or less on a Times Tables Quiz.