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[quote=Anonymous]At a second grade parent teacher conference, DS's teacher voiced concern that DS wasn't getting math.  This irritated me because DS at the time was a competitive chess player and seemed very interested in math.  I did a little research and we started Beast Academy from AOPS.   It took us 1.5 years to complete levels 2 and 3.  We're working slowly through level 4 concurrent with 4th grade public school.  At the beginning of the school year for 4th grade, DS tested in the 99% on our school's standardized math placement test.  I give all credit to Beast Academy.

Reasons why one might not like AOPS based on our experience with doing Beast Academy at home and through the virtual campus: (1) it is really hard;  (2) in our case, it required a lot of parental assistance;  (3) I had a terrible math education growing up, so I am relearning math all over again to help DS, which takes a lot of time and tests my own frustration tolerance; and (4) (this reason is a bit silly) your kid will find school math boring and easy after doing Beast!

All that said, I'd do it all over again, starting at Level 2 of Beast Academy and moving up through AOPS from there.  DS enjoys it too.  
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