IXL vs. Khan Academy vs. Beast Academy?

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How high does Beast Academy go?

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Anonymous wrote:How high does Beast Academy go?

Do you guy do the monthly or annual subscription for paying at the beginning? That is for both math and reading or just math only?

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I wanna know which is gonna be the best one for the kid to take? My kid is in grade 4 and I think he needs to take the after school math program to get better skill in calculation and solving math problems. Does anyone know about these after school programs, please give me the recommendation.

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I have never tried the after school programs for my kid. I would like to know which programs are good and effective for the kids to take. My kid is in elementary school. I want my kid to catch up with his lesson in his math class. Especially he needs the calculation speed to improve honestly. So please give me some advice and which one is doing well with your kids.

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Anonymous wrote:I have never tried the after school programs for my kid. I would like to know which programs are good and effective for the kids to take. My kid is in elementary school. I want my kid to catch up with his lesson in his math class. Especially he needs the calculation speed to improve honestly. So please give me some advice and which one is doing well with your kids.

Both are good for the kids to take as the after school math program. My kid is so far ok with the Beestar. If you down for the program with the low cost, try that one out.

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Anonymous wrote:I have never tried the after school programs for my kid. I would like to know which programs are good and effective for the kids to take. My kid is in elementary school. I want my kid to catch up with his lesson in his math class. Especially he needs the calculation speed to improve honestly. So please give me some advice and which one is doing well with your kids.

There are some after school math programs like Kumon, IXL, Beestar and so on. Kumon and IXL are pretty effective programs and with some cost. Beestar is a free program. All of the programs are good and it depends on your kid and your preference. You can check those programs out on their website to get to know more details about them.

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My kid does RSM and likes it. I like that there are 3 levels, which leads to greater differentiation.

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ixl is a headache causer and abnoxis site

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Anonymous wrote:Hi there, trying to find a way to help my 4th grader who has a keen interest but is at a school that doesn't do differentiated instruction find opportunities to pursue her interest in math. It seems like Beast Academy might be more math competition type games and questions where as IXL seems to have an assessment, which might be a useful tool to figure out exactly where she is and what she needs (as opposed to my current gauge, which is "math is so easy at school, I finished and then I'm bored" which doesn't really tell me anything).

Anyone use these tools? Can you share pros and cons? Thanks!

try prodigy math/language arts.

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Anonymous wrote:How high does Beast Academy go?

pre-prealgebra

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Beast Academy is absolutely fantastic for kids who are very strong in math and bored by school math — kids who need the challenge, not kids who need reinforcement. For these kids, IXL is not nearly as rich or interesting.

For reinforcement of school math concepts, IXL or Khan should be fine.

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A lot of people don’t like IXL, but I think it has the best diagnostic among the three and it covers the entire math from k-12 and a little calculus. My kid uses it at school and the real benefit is that if your child is advanced in math they can do things at their own level instead of on grade with the rest of the class. In my view it’s one of the only good differentiation tools that works. IXL can be a grind to get to 100 score, but it teaches the value of verifying the work, use of calculator etc. Hacking at it over time is quite good to get the basics down of the large swath of math that’s k-12.

I’d put Beast Academy with the AOPS offerings which include regular classes and Alcumus (kinda like IXL). They were harder than IXL and might come back after going through the AOPS books. I prefer the textbooks and online classes to Alcumus.

Khan is great for a class preview. My kid would do Khan academy the summer before taking the course in school. Up to Algebra 1 the content is ok, but Geometry, Algebra 2 and Precalculus are not very good. Calculus BC and Statistics are also ok, but not too deep, and not enough exercises and variety to really understand the material.

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My girl started BA level 3 at the end of her 3rd grade and is now at BA level 4. She loves it. It is fun and deep. Recommended!

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BEAST is best. I'm a middle school math teacher. If your kid loves math and is bored by school math, go for Beast. If your kid needs help with grade level math, do Khan or IXL. Beast goes to 5th grade then they can do pre-algebra.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here, thanks, this is super helpful. Explains why when I asked our teacher she said--do IXL--and seemed puzzled at my asking about other things. But I think she was thinking of a resource that would tell us what is coming in the next grade--i.e., the sorts of stuff she might do if we lived somewhere with acceleration.

Do any/all of them have some sort of general assessment tool where they tell you where to start? What I find overwhelming in looking at these tools is that they have tons of modules, but I'm not sure where I should have my child start diving in.

I’m the first poster. Don’t laugh, but if you do Beast Academy, I’d start with third grade. You might move pretty quickly through some of the basics, but every chapter will get to a challenging place. You could even just pick up the textbooks and read through them with your kid. The characters in the text will work through difficult problems and you should be able to tell if it’s easy for your kid or if spending some time in the workbook will have value.

With IXL and khan, reviewing material you’ve mastered at school will be a waste (but it’s very low stakes... if a topic is reputation, just click past it)
With Beast, you are buying the material. But, for example, my daughter (4th) is coincidentally doing fractions in Beast while she is doing them in school. In school, their last test maxed out at adding fractions with like denominators and a completely rote algorithm for multiplying and dividing. In Beast, she worked through “If you take 4/5 of my favorite number and add 2 1/2 you get my magic number. What is it?” (Remember... no algebra!) And “explain why dividing two whole numbers sometimes give you a fraction and sometimes another whole number? Can dividing a whole number by a unit fraction ever give you a fraction? Why or why not?”

BA online comes with access to all grades FYI