RSM at home

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no honor for 1st grade. Accelerated and advanced are the only two levels in 1st grade. Either you are lying or they gave you wrong options.

OP a troll

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no honor for 1st grade. Accelerated and advanced are the only two levels in 1st grade. Either you are lying or they gave you wrong options.

OP a troll

OP here- then I misunderstood. She said if I did the advanced class over the summer my student would be on track for the honors, maybe she didn’t mean 1st grade. I kind of checked out because I think we would only do it during the summer, not the school year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Look into math competitions like Math Kangaroo, there are others but that is the first that comes to mind. The problems are more puzzles and reinforce grade level concepts. There is more thought involved in how to approach the problems and apply concepts.

Compete at 6 years old sounds ridiculous. Why add stress to it? Don’t be pushy just because it’s easy for her. It’s easy until it gets harder.

Math Kangaroo is not a head to head competition. The kids take the same test and then those are scored. It is not a big deal. The problems are more challenging then regular math class and use the skills that the kids are learning in regular math. They learn to think about how to apply what they have learned without being told what they are supposed to do. And you have the choice of getting the old tests and doing those at home without doing the actual competition if you want. Some kids really enjoy it and don’t find it stressful, it is a math test for fun, especially at that age.

There are very few head to head competitions in early math. Even in MS math the competitions are less one v one or the top scorers announced. That does happen but a lot of the scores are groups of kids who scored in X percentile or who got one wrong or whatever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no honor for 1st grade. Accelerated and advanced are the only two levels in 1st grade. Either you are lying or they gave you wrong options.

Is there honors in second? She said that she could do the summer program and honors in the fall, when the child will be in second grade. At least the way I read the post is that the child just finished first grade and will be in second grade next year. I know that there is honors in third, because my kid was in it.

Also, RSM will move kids up a grade level if they see that the math is too easy for them or you can ask to be moved up a grade level. The only time we ran into a problem was in 6th grade when they did not want to move my DC into Algebra as a 6th grader. We dropped the grade level math at that time because it was not engaging them. We kept the math competition program because DC loves it and it is very challenging. There are homework problems he cannot figure out, they discuss the homework in class. It is the right level of engaging and challenging. We also like that DC has learned that they need to do their homework and ask for help even in a subject that they are strong in. It has been great for them.

[Anonymous]

I second Beast Academy, at home, either via the books, self-paced online, or with Zoom classes so questions can get answered and a pace of progress is set. It’s hard or at least very quirky math puzzles that build up across lessons. If you don’t follow along and learn along you might not be able to help unless you, parent, go back a couple of lessons and learn it all as well.
But it’s also fun and exciting and gives a new perspective on math and what’s behind the dry algorithms students learn to apply without understanding. It also gets kids used to being completely stuck and finding a way out of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no honor for 1st grade. Accelerated and advanced are the only two levels in 1st grade. Either you are lying or they gave you wrong options.

Is there honors in second? She said that she could do the summer program and honors in the fall, when the child will be in second grade. At least the way I read the post is that the child just finished first grade and will be in second grade next year. I know that there is honors in third, because my kid was in it.

Also, RSM will move kids up a grade level if they see that the math is too easy for them or you can ask to be moved up a grade level. The only time we ran into a problem was in 6th grade when they did not want to move my DC into Algebra as a 6th grader. We dropped the grade level math at that time because it was not engaging them. We kept the math competition program because DC loves it and it is very challenging. There are homework problems he cannot figure out, they discuss the homework in class. It is the right level of engaging and challenging. We also like that DC has learned that they need to do their homework and ask for help even in a subject that they are strong in. It has been great for them.

OP said rising 1st grader. Also, I highly doubt that if she needs to be in advanced for the summer, they will let her skip the grade. If you look at the material for 1st grade, it’s really not about arithmetic. The math itself is very basic and my kid’s school curriculum had more complex additions and subtractions than the ones at RSM. The difference is that RSM uses a lot of logic and the basic math is used to solve logic problems. That is what is missing for the school curriculum.