hjffkj Posted August 15, 2018 Share Posted August 15, 2018 I was wondering if anyone could give me an idea of how quickly your kids have gone through on of the guides and corresponding practice book? I just started my dd in 2A and my son in 3A. From what I gather it is really all going to depend on how well they work out the problems, but I was just wondering what other kids have done. My main reason for wondering is because I only bought the first books for each kid to test it out. If it goes well I'll likely order the rest as they are getting close to finishing 2A and 3A, but I'd just like a rough idea of when that might be. We are currently using it as their only math curriculum but may spend one or two days a week solidifying math facts, not sure yet. Any input would be helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertflower Posted August 15, 2018 Share Posted August 15, 2018 Well, I wish I could be more specific, but for my family it depended on the child and topic. On average one of my children could go through 2 - 4 pages in one lesson; whereas, one of my children goes around 1 page per lesson. We are using it as our main program as well. hth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hjffkj Posted August 15, 2018 Author Share Posted August 15, 2018 9 minutes ago, desertflower said: Well, I wish I could be more specific, but for my family it depended on the child and topic. On average one of my children could go through 2 - 4 pages in one lesson; whereas, one of my children goes around 1 page per lesson. We are using it as our main program as well. hth Thank you, that does help. It is likely that is how my two kids will be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdventuresinHomeschooling Posted August 15, 2018 Share Posted August 15, 2018 My oldest is my math dawdler, and he was going through it very slowly. We actually switched to a more traditional curriculum this year for 7th for greater accountability with him. The BA website says some may go through a few pages at a time, and some days might be a problem or two that is challenging. They recommend 45 minutes a day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Tick Posted August 15, 2018 Share Posted August 15, 2018 Obviously BA thinks it will be about one set a quarter and that has been true for my two users. It tends to slow down in some books and I think we will never get through but then, surprise! They are done. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hjffkj Posted August 15, 2018 Author Share Posted August 15, 2018 4 minutes ago, SusanC said: Obviously BA thinks it will be about one set a quarter and that has been true for my two users. It tends to slow down in some books and I think we will never get through but then, surprise! They are done. ? See I'm looking through 2A and 3A and this lasting a whole quarter, if that is their only math, seems pretty slow. But I guess we'll see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Tick Posted August 15, 2018 Share Posted August 15, 2018 1 hour ago, hjffkj said: See I'm looking through 2A and 3A and this lasting a whole quarter, if that is their only math, seems pretty slow. But I guess we'll see. You could be right, it had been a while since we worked through either if those. Dd is in fractions in 4C and I was just thinking we might still be here at Christmas! ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Condessa Posted August 15, 2018 Share Posted August 15, 2018 My oldest takes about three weeks per chapter. My second, two or three weeks, based on which topic she’s working on. My third takes about a month per chapter, because he is my unschooler and chose to jump into Beast as a Ker. They may complete anywhere from one to five pages per day, as the difficulty of the questions is highly variable. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silver Posted August 15, 2018 Share Posted August 15, 2018 My middle child started 3A as a supplement. Once she switched to BA as her main curriculum, she started to go more quickly. Schooling four days a week and taking breaks occasionally to focus on other things, here's the time she's taken per book: 3B-7 weeks 3C-7 weeks 3D-11 weeks 4A-12 weeks 4B-8 weeks 4C-11 weeks 4D-12 weeks 5A-She's at 11 weeks and is about halfway through the last chapter of the book. I estimate she has 2-3 weeks to go. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMD Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 Mine are slow. We take more than a quarter per book usually. I think it's worth it but it is frustrating sometimes! My child currently doing level 2 does about 2 practice pages a day. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purpleowl Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 My girls end up doing roughly a book a quarter. Most chapters are around 3 weeks, some a little less, some a little more. I've never used any of the level 2 books, and I don't remember whether 3A went faster than the other books or not, so I can't comment specifically on those - sorry! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackie Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 We’re pretty laid back about how often things get done. My kid did BA3 is one year, averaging working on it about 3 days/week for 30 minutes/day. She did BA4 in about 3/4 of a year, also averaging 3 days/week. However, she had been exposed to some of the concepts previously due to her loving math and doing lots of mathy things on the side. She did BA5 in even less time, because she had previous exposure to even more of the topics in her other math reading. So, that’s probably pretty useless information, given that her chosen supplementation meant that she beat BA to the punch half the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cake and Pi Posted August 17, 2018 Share Posted August 17, 2018 This is going to vary widely by child and topic. I'd say probably expect around the intended 4 books per year, which is about 3 weeks per chapter or roughly 10 pages per week if you school 36 weeks per year. But if you move at the child's pace, it might work out nothing like that. Of my two who used Beast as their main math, they spent incredibly inconsistent and unpredictable amounts of time on the different chapters and problems -- as little as 9 days on an entire book or as much as a couple of weeks on a single page. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah0000 Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 I gave up on trying to plan how quickly my first grader would go through the books so I just ordered the whole next years worth. However, he jumps around topics a lot and doesn't do every problem so it's useful for us to have a stockpile for him to rotate through as his interests shift. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noreen Claire Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 In the past 16 months, my son has done 8 BA books (2A, 3A-D, 4A-C) plus Singapore 3A. He works 30-45 minutes a day, 5x/week during the school year and sporadically (if bored) during the summer. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hjffkj Posted August 22, 2018 Author Share Posted August 22, 2018 Thank you all. Both kids seem to be going at roughly the same place right, which is pretty fast. They love it so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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