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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.  [/quote]

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?”
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