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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Beast Academy at home[/quote]

This never made sense to me.

“My kid is ahead of everyone in math, he’s super bored”

“Do this thing that will make him ever farther ahead of everyone and even more bored!”

Sometimes kids in school are bored. Mine were, and part of what we did was teach them that it’s okay to be bored, how to deal with boredom without being distracting.

Instead of teaching your kid new math concepts at home, why don’t you do different uses of the concepts? Teach him games that utilize math skills. Have him use his skills to measure and build something cool. Teach him to cook since it’s a heavy use of fractions. [/quote]

Np. Beast does that. It gamefies math by giving kids math puzzles to solve. It will introduce new concept, have him practice, and then turn the concepts into games and math "challenges" at the end.

The kid isn't going to be *more* bored at school. School math is painfully slow for some kids that even new info isn't challenging or interesting. By enriching at home, the tradeoff is that the kid is still bored in math at school, but learns to love math.

OP, +1 to the other posters saying to enrich at home. Acceleration at school gets you only one level up, still at the school's pace, and is a pain to get the school to agree to.

If you can enrich at home, Beast or RSM competitions, you have the freedom to dive into whatever your kid finds interesting. He can determine his own pace. And yes, you can do math games as well. [/quote]

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