In middle school, most of students has the basic knowledge of math. This set the basics to read book about math. Additionally, because there are not a lot of homework as in high school, there is time to read books. Actually, it's important to read a lot more books on the subject of your interests during this time.

For math, the reading can include books on math history,  the biography of the greatest mathematicians, and books about the most famous math theories. This is beneficial or the future math study.

The following are some very good books to read:

"The Art of War" is a true masterpiece in Chinese.  After thousands of years, the principals of defining wars and conducing wars mentioned in the book are still applicable to our current life.

Winlanes Chinese includes the "The Art of War" as part of the core curriculum. Even you don't know Chinese, you can read the following two books to understand the concepts.

When talking about fun reading, it's really convenient to read with Kindle. Kindle is light weighted so that you can read from any where. You can share books and most importantly it has built-in dictionary for you check any word at any time. For parents, most importantly, it's really for reading not games.

The followings are some books really fun to read:

Science is a broad subject area. To learn science well, gain interests, and be creative to become a future scientist, it's requires a lot more knowledge than the content in textbooks.

Winlanes believes that there are four key factors for the success science study:

• Well-Designed Study Plan
  The study plan should be designed by a subject expert. This is to make sure that the plan covers all the key subjects, uses the right materials, and teaches the subjects in the right order. 
• Mentor
  Each student should connect to a subject expert as his/her mentor. The mentor's role is to answer questions, provide additional resources based on the current interests, and making study/research suggestions.
• Projects
  Science project is be a good way of enhancing the learned knowledge and encouraging the additional study. This is also a good way of training student thinking like a scientist who can use the science knowledge to solve real problems.
  
• Competition
  Challenge the student's knowledge constantly and to encourage them to learn beyond their limits and most importantly use competition make it fun to learn!

If you have any suggestion or question, please send email to asklayne@winlanes.com.

Attending math camps is important to improving math skills. The followings are some of the most prestigious math summer camps in US.

• SUMac: a four weeks residential math program hosted by Stanford University. 
• Mathcamp: a five weeks math program with generous scholarship.
  
• Mathworks: a two weeks residential math program hosted by Texas State University.  Every year, there are only 32 seats. The selection is based on an entrance exam result and is quite competitive.
  
• Awesome Math: a three weeks residential/day math program normally hosted in Dallas, east cost (Cornell University) and west cost ( University of Santa Cruz).
• Mathzoom: day camp and two weeks residential camp in Los Angels, California, hosted by the Mathzoom Academy.