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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Beast Academy curriculum is fantastic as a supplement. She can take a short quiz to see what level she’s at. The story / comic book format is engaging and funny and teaches kids strategies for solving math problems. you can start with the level that’s right for her based on where she is at. I would stay away from pushing memorization.[/quote]

No, just no.

Beast Academy is great for kids with strong deductive and inductive reasoning skills. It’s a challenging curriculum. I’ve taught kids who have a math strength—ready for some pre-algebra concepts in fourth grade—who flounder with BA. Kids with weak number sense really struggle with math-based deductive reasoning. Also, the curriculum doesn’t cover the types of thing we do to build up a sense of the base-ten number system—number grid puzzles, writing numbers in expanded form, using different sorts of manipulatives to represent math concepts, multisensory learning.

What OP needs is a tutor with training and lots of experience working with kids who have weak number sense. [/quote]

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