Mykids2000 Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 I am so glad I looked on this board because I had never heard of AoPS before. My 10 year old is very very bored with Saxon 7/6. He only has 20 lessons left and he has always picked up math quickly. Actually anything academic quickly. He read very young, etc. etc. I just don't want him to "miss" anything so I have made him go through the books. It seems like AoPS might be the answer for him. He is definitely ready for the Pre-Algebra book. AoPS seems to not be as repetitious and more challenging when compared to Saxon. Am I correct in that assumption? I have looked through the sample pages that you can see. I am having trouble jumping to another math curriculum. My son did Singapore for his early years but I went to Saxon because it covered things that he was going to be tested on when Singapore didn't. Saxon also makes sense to me and I find it easy to teach. My son is very different than me. I would call myself a high achiever while he fits all the gifted descriptions. I think I am holding him back with it though and he is very bored. He gets 100% or close to it on every assignment. I feel like he is always ahead of me and I am holding him back. Any thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wapiti Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 Less repetition and more challenge - yes. Very different learning philosophy from Saxon (see e.g. Rusczyk on problem solving text or video) AoPS Prealgebra is my favorite math text ever, so, I vote to give it a try. Do check out the videos and Alcumus for the general flavor, though they're not quite the same as learning from the text. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Governess Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 Yes, AOPS is fun, challenging, and inspiring. I would only use Saxon for a student that struggles with retention and needs a very systematic, incremental approach with a lot of review. For a kid that is good at and enjoys math, AOPS is fantastic. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mykids2000 Posted March 7, 2016 Author Share Posted March 7, 2016 Thank you so much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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