My daughter is in public school in 7th grade. I looked at and tried about 6 math programs and we settled on EMF. She started it mid-6th grade and made a lot of progress during the pandemic. She is in the 9th class. I work on it with her about 15 minutes most days. It's self-paced and she is very collaborative. If I did not enjoy working on it with her, I would need to hire someone similar to a piano teacher to look at it with her and encourage her to work on it. When I work on it with her, I can feel my mind expanding and struggling to make sense of what I am learning. For example, we learned about sets (course 3), and put what we learned into the "operational system" framework (from course 1). E.g. is this associative? commutative? And showing things with circles and shading. The aptitude test will give you a good flavor, and the first course is free. At first I thought, "This is interesting, but is it math?" but by the middle of the first course, I realized it was veering into abstract algebra. It is very rigorous (using appropriate math terms and techniques), covers interesting topics not typically done in pre-algebra (e.g. sets, combinatorics), and theoretical. I am extremely happy with this course. I've included some screen shots (but obviously these in out of context might not be well understood) EMF_ Class4_Ordered n-Tuples (Page 77).pdf EMF_ Class4_Ordered n-Tuples (Page 71).pdf EMF_ Class3_Sets, Subsets and Set Operations (Page 98).pdf EMF_ Class3_Sets, Subsets and Set Operations (Page 18).pdf EMF_ Class1_Operational Systems (Page 78).pdf EMF_ Class1_Operational Systems (Page 36).pdf EMF_ Class1_Operational Systems (Page 12).pdf