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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Except that's not what Beast Academy is.

I agree 100% if you were talking about Khan, or IXL, or other things that mimic grade level curriculum.  Often times, kids use these to "get ahead" of the curriculum, and it results in kids who move faster but not deeper, and just increases boredom.

But Beast Academy takes grade level content and goes deeper, not faster.  It's not really appropriate for kids who are below or on grade level.  For most kids who are somewhat above grade level, the best thing is to actually do Beast a grade level below, so that in 3rd grade math they're learning multiplication and division, and in 2nd grade beast they're taking what they learned last year, so place value and advanced addition and subtraction, and applies it to novel problems.  For kids who are well above grade level, it makes sense to do grade level math and grade level Beast at the same time.

There are other things that expand on grade level curriculum instead of going faster  -- strategy games, Singapore's challenging word problem curriculum, competition programs like Math Kangaroo.  All of those things are better than just going straight ahead IMO.  [/quote] Beast Academy is two years ahead of standard pace, so it is also faster.[/quote]

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