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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just teach your kid at home.  Carve out 20 min per night.  It’s elementary math.  You can do this and save yourself a lot of money and commute time AND getting 1:1 direct instruction is far more effective.  Those tutors don’t care about your kid- at all[/quote] DI, whole effective, is a bit at odds with Beast Academy's philosophy of getting kids to struggle with tough math problems without giving up when the answer is not apparent. RSM's curriculum is not available for sale.

DI, on the other hand, is all about breaking everything into the smallest, simplest, most easily digestible pieces with constant testing so you know exactly when and where a kid is stumbling in order to adjust the instruction and pacing. If OP wants a DI curriculum, check out Connecting Math Concepts by NIFDI. It's priced for per class rather than per student, so you would need to find a used edition if that's an issue. Since it's a grade-level program, you should expect a gifted child to progress very quickly, which may make it even more expensive. Engelmann, the founder of NIFDI, was a truly gifted teacher: https://youtu.be/j9SjFsimywA?t=210
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9SjFsimywA&t=396s
https://untitledhomeschoolproject.blogspot.com/2021/07/zig-and-therese-engelmann-on-algebra.html

For something more traditional, there's Singapore math, specifically the challenging world problems and Intensive Practice books. The textbooks are meant to be used with the workbooks, but the textbooks also have questions so I suppose the workbooks can be considered optional for very quick learners or those using it as a supplement for school math. Learning to teach the "Singapore way" (using bar modeling) is highly recommended, either through the home instructor's guides or through some other course or "Elementary Mathematics for Teachers" by Parker and Baldridge (good luck finding it though)[/quote]

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