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[quote=Anonymous]A lot of people don’t like IXL, but I think it has the best diagnostic among the three and it covers the entire math from k-12 and a little calculus. My kid uses it at school and the real benefit is that if your child is advanced in math they can do things at their own level instead of on grade with the rest of the class. In my view it’s one of the only good differentiation tools that works. IXL can be a grind to get to 100 score, but it teaches the value of verifying the work, use of calculator etc. Hacking at it over time is quite good to get the basics down of the large swath of math that’s k-12.

I’d put Beast Academy with the AOPS offerings which include regular classes and Alcumus (kinda like IXL). They were harder than IXL and might come back after going through the AOPS books. I prefer the textbooks and online classes to Alcumus.

Khan is great for a class preview. My kid would do Khan academy the summer before taking the course in school. Up to Algebra 1 the content is ok, but Geometry, Algebra 2 and Precalculus are not very good. Calculus BC and Statistics are also ok, but not too deep, and not enough exercises and variety to really understand the material.
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