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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Beast Academy at home[/quote]

This never made sense to me.

“My kid is ahead of everyone in math, he’s super bored”

“Do this thing that will make him ever farther ahead of everyone and even more bored!”

Sometimes kids in school are bored. Mine were, and part of what we did was teach them that it’s okay to be bored, how to deal with boredom without being distracting.

Instead of teaching your kid new math concepts at home, why don’t you do different uses of the concepts? Teach him games that utilize math skills. Have him use his skills to measure and build something cool. Teach him to cook since it’s a heavy use of fractions. [/quote]
Do you have this same scorn for kids who do sports at home, too?

For kids like OP's, holding them back to minimize boredom is a fool's errand - at least if they do math at home, they'll have a chance to enjoy math. School math is as far from sufficient for challenging them as PE class is for future D1 athletes. As you mentioned yourself, it's okay to be bored in class.

The activities you mentioned are a very poor way of learning math, and sticking to them develops the notion that math is a tool, not something with any intrinsic value or beauty. Very sad.[/quote]

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