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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just did it myself. In the summer we did some workbooks. At some point we switched to Beast Academy, which my kid loved because of the comics. I highly recommend it, but I'm sure at what level they start - since we got in late, I think we started at book 3. Beast Academy gets kids to think critically, which is different from other workbooks that drill math facts and seek to develop fluency. Different kids will need different approaches.
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Yeah - [b]explore Beast Level 2 for your first grader.[/b][u] We did through Level 5 with my now 5th grader since first grade and it’s like he’s in a different mathematical world.

Also look into Verbal Math series (google it). No pencil and paper, so early basic math concepts get cemented without intermediation.  [/quote]

Um no. Certainly not as "math help" for a 1st grader. Beast Level 2 would be good as math acceleration for an advanced and bored 1st grader or an on-level 2nd grader, though. [/quote]

I didn’t have any conception of my son as “advanced” or “bored” when it came to his math abilities.

We just did it and have had tremendous results, probably because we started early enough to make difference.

So yes, if OP is asking, it definitely makes sense to “explore” BA2 and not write it off because her 1st grader isn’t “advanced” enough.

FWIW - I was not too enamored with BA1 and so bypassed for my younger child.

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