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[quote=Anonymous]The PP insisting it's all just rote memorization seems to have an ill-informed and skewed perspective.

From what I've seen, there is plenty of foundational knowledge and practicum happening, via labs and other work, to give BASIS students a deep understanding of the subject beyond just reciting memorized facts on demand.  Additionally, there is a lot of creative work happening as well.

Saxon Math is hardly a "math-gifted" curriculum, and DC (and I'm sure the same applies to many other students at BASIS) already had a ton of exposure to the basic math facts, operations and order of operations, as well as fractions and ratios in his schooling before 5th - those do not constitute "overload" in my opinion -  how long does one need to keep dwelling on it and circling around and around and around endlessly?  Fine to periodically review previously-learned content for reinforcement, but once one has the basic math facts and operations down, why waste 2 or 3 more years going over the same stuff over and over again, why not start moving them toward geometry, prealgebra and algebra already?  [/quote]

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