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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son is in kindergarten and only in level E (and honestly the levels don't even make sense. He could actually be a C or D imo). Anyway, we are doing our own reading curriculum at home, which doesn't seem to have a downside. Is this true of math? Or is there a downside - like maybe he gets too bored in 1st or 2nd grade and behavior issues go up? Or I teach the math differently and the process isn't the same for the same kind of math problem at home vs. at school?

Reading we are working on because I want him to and he is willing. Math, he wants to work on bc he is interested. I'm just worried there may be a downside.[/quote]

I'm a parent who has supplemented three very different kids.

I think that if a kid needs remediation, there's always a benefit to that.

I think there is always a benefit to going broad with a kid who is interested and asking for it.  So, doing things like Beast Academy on his grade level, or Singapore Word Problems Challenging Word Problems, or looking at problems from Math Kangaroo, or exploring geometry with manipulatives, or playing games like Dragonbox.

I think there are both benefits and downsides of going ahead.  Some kids are pushing for it.  One of my kids was desperate to go as fast as possible.  But it makes school even more boring, because nothing is new.  Also, kids who are going to make careers related to math are going to need as much breadth as possible so if going ahead means sacrificing breadth don't make that choice.  So, I'd say it makes sense for one kid, and not my other kid who was satisfied with breadth.

I'll also say that my kid for whom we just went broad, he easily skipped a couple years once he got to middle school and there were options for levels.  So, going broad still meant that he ended up in the most advanced option.  [/quote]

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