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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why would an accelerated math kid need Mathnasium?[/quote]

Am PP.  My kids had shockingly obvious math knowledge deficits due to the pandemic and also suffered from an ineffective math teacher that all kids who take algebra get for 7th grade Pre-Algebra.  My older son's Algebra class was online for the spring of 2020 and they basically lost 2 months of material.  My younger son could not do division of a 3 digit number by a 2 digit number by hand in 8th grade.

I lost out on direct admission to an honors college with scholarship because of 10 math SAT points.  I could not raise my score with my own prepping (took SAT 3 times).  This was a scarring experience.  I also had trouble in college calculus.  And I had moved during childhood to MoCo.  I was deleveled from the advanced math track in 7th grade after 2 months because I got lost and couldn't keep up with kids who had been in the system K-6.  So I have a lot of resentment from all of this, and it motivated me to make sure my kids are more like my husband who got a very good h.s. math education and reached calculus in h.s.

I decided it would be worth paying for performance remediation to ensure a better high school GPA and SAT.  That was achieved at a steep price of about $4K per school year per kid.

IXL (ixl.com) costs only $$-$200 per year.  Khan Academy is free.  But my kids refused to self-study math.  My spouse and I work and don't have a lot of time to police math enrichment.  Mathnasium seemed more friendly and oriented towards liking math vs. mastery through drilling (Kumon).

Overall, I think Mathnasium does a better job of targeting K-8.  Their core demographic is elementary school students.  My kids are outliers, but I like the owner/primary center director and he works well with my kids. He is a grad of the state flagship university where I went for MBA, and my older son will matriculate there in the fall.  So I feel he knows what level my kids need to achieve to succeed there.  It's a nationally highly-ranked, non-DMV school.[/quote]

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