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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had great success with Beast Academy levels 2-5 (they didn’t have level 1 back then). My kid went from a little above average in school to very strong in competitive math. We did the package that included books and online.  We always read the comics together, especially when he was younger.  They are adorable. We did levels 2 and 3 first by watching the videos, then the workbooks, then the online content. By the end of level 3 he’d developed a competency in learning math and my involvement lessened and he mostly just did the online content and got mostly 3 stars, so the workbooks seemed like overload.  School math did become easy and boring, and his teachers were annoyed that he did most of his school math mentally. I never really cared because Beast is so many levels above school math in rigor, depth and problem solving that we viewed even accelerated elementary  school math as poor.  I’m starting my youngest on level 1 now, same strategy.  For the right kid, Beast is rigorous but still fun with the cute comic theme and online gamification. [/quote]

I’m the PP.  I wanted to add this took 30 minutes to an hour a day, typically 5 days a week (Saturday, Sunday and 3 weekdays). Since we did it at home, we didn’t waste anytime commuting to a center. I learned a surprising amount of new math by doing it with him.  We still found time for him to play a variety different sports before he settled on a travel team for one sport and some other rec sports. Many of the other kids in the competitive math circuit in middle school are also well rounded.  [/quote]

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