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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In elementary school he became obsessed with Prodigy. Really wanted to win those monsters. When two of his friends started playing with him, he got even more into it. It gave him incredibly fast calculation skills which allowed him to easily pick up the more abstract problem solving behind math.

In high school, math was incredibly easy for him. One group of his friends including a girl he liked were planning on taking AP Physics and Calculus the next year WTH him. They were all taking a community college non credit course in Calculus that summer. He decided to do it with them. While he regretted signing up while he was in the class because why would anyone want to wake up early five days a week during the summer and spend 3 hours doing Calculus, he was really relieved the next fall. He said he understood now why some kids find it those classes easy and others really struggle. He noticed that his prior high school classes hadn’t prepared him for either class but the summer one did. He’s a nice kid and spent a lot of hours tutoring friends and other students who hadn’t already taken the course. [/quote]

Prodigy was crap for our kids in the 2010s.  I personally observed the same question being asked multiple times as my son returned again and again to take on a boss.  My smart kid eventually memorized answers without mastering the calculations.  I asked him to demonstrate similar made up on the spot problems and he couldn't.  I was very frustrated they were given math class time to do this game.[/quote]

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