beast academy vs rightstart math

Beast Academy Math. Should we try to fit in both? Requests for CTC Math reviews also. I’m no moron, but spatial reasoning was always my weakest area on IQ tests and such. (Both finished 4th gr. Can you recommend a preparatory curriculum? My twelve year old son was pushed through to the sixth grade in public school. BA online wasn’t available when I was using Beast with my son, so I’ve only looked at it briefly. My 7yo is good at math but becomes very frustrated when he doesn’t immediately grasp a concept. So, Beast Academy seems to be guiding me into a deeper understanding of mathematics right along with my daughter! ). Note that the first of 4 books for fifth grade has only recently come out and they are planning to extend to 16 x 2 books covering 2nd to 5th. Log in, 10 Things to Consider When Choosing a Math Program, http://thesetemporarytents.com/2012/09/18/why-do-kids-need-strategy-more-than-math-facts/, http://pinterest.com/thesetemptents/unschooling-math/, http://creeksidelearning.com/2012/09/20/review-of-time4learning/, http://themommaknows.com/our-new-math-curriculum-khan-academy/, http://www.time4learning.com/homeschool/high_school.shtml. Beast 2A begins with place-value, so I think you’d be fine starting there even if your daughter is still working on mastering the facts. It provide clear, step by step instruction, but without the excessive review and dizzying spiral of CLE. Enroll in the Beast Academy online math curriculum for advanced kids grades 2 to 5 and challenge your child with guidebooks, practice problems, and puzzles. But definitely take a look at the table of contents to confirm my hunch, please! Addition and subtraction are taught in 2nd and 3rd grade! That being said, another bonus with B.A. Shiller Math (based on the Montessori method) The Old Schoolhouse Rare Treasures. She was skeptical at first, but I’ve seen her come alive as she works to figure out very challenging problems. Am I on the right track? I looked at the 4A pre-test and it seemed pretty far beyond where she is both in knowledge and enthusiasm. I think during school, we’d want him to work as independently as possible, so his teacher can give her attention to the students who need more support in 2nd grade work. The prerequisites for Beast Academy 2A are quite simple: counting by 1s, 2s, 5s, and 10s beyond 100, addition and subtraction to 20, and the ability to solve simple word problems. This is incredible to me, considering that last spring, I struggled to get her to work in Singapore for 15 minutes. I have just started searching for math programs for my six year old, who has (by far) the strongest natural math skills of my four children. Two things to keep in mind: In fact, I found parts of 3B to be a bit too challenging for the previous work given. She was bored. I appreciate your input, I actually have the Right Start Activity set, which I’ll admit I forgot that I had until last week. Thank you so much for your RightStart Math Curriculum. My son is 4 (and enters pre-K in the fall) so apps and other game like methods of learning math have proven to be good ways to teach basic math concepts and get him interested in math. It is a math program for grades 2-5 that is fun and entertaining. Both are great programs, and your son will get a thorough math education with either. I was looking to see if anyone had recommended Beast so I can link to it for friends, and I’m so glad I found your post because it is excellent! Really, anything I have thought of to throw at him, he understands almost immediately. That’s why we have hung onto drill & kill for so many yrs. For your first grader, any solid first grade curriculum will prepare him for Beast. We’re finishing up Singapore 2 now. I agree, Liz: my son also knows the material so deeply by the time he’s worked through a Beast Academy chapter. Do you know of any other curriculum, for other subjects that teach in similar ways?!?!?!?!?!?!? we never did before any of BA books. Yes, Multiplication Facts That Stick would be a great way to get started with multiplication. She also easily knocks out several rote worksheets every day but doesn’t have the boredom problem that my son does. When I was a teacher we as a grade level decided to combine two programs because there really is no perfect curriculum. Hi He would barely eek through. He was able to pass the 3b pretest, but did a lot of the figuring and figiting you spoke of. My daughter does well with the high concept parts of math, actually, but just needs more time to memorize math facts and procedures. for almost an hour. School age kids who want to do math have amazing options. P.S. I’ll report back after going through preschool book with my girls. Home School Bldg? I’m going to start his brother at 3A but I don’t know if that would be right for him. I would hate to have him miss any important foundations. This has really made me think about real learning versus the appearance of learning. I get the sense that the main challenge that the Pre-algebra book provides isn’t so much the math content, but the new textbook format and the challenging problems. BA problems require a lot of effort, but she is a willing participant now! Should I go back and cover some of the material in the new second grade program? Kids who use Beast definitely need to know the math facts well so they can devote their brainpower to problem-solving and not figuring out basic multiplication. Make sure you especially note that the first chapter in 3A is one of the hardest in the whole series, so feel free to skip the most difficult problems near the end of that chapter. Do you have any insight as to how I might help him memorize in a way he can remember, and if I start in 3b, will the work be too hard for him? Updated May 2020. You can take a look at the link on the side for what I use, but unfortunately none of the other programs I use are very Beast-like. My youngest will be entering K this fall, and I’m torn between a lighthearted curriculum where he’s learning his numbers and values (like The Good and The Beautiful) and starting him with RS either midyear or for first grade. The 9 yr old just needs to be let loose & I think BA will allow him to soar ( ecstatic mommy here!). What do you think I should do? Do you know of anything else, or for younger children? how’s your school year going? It’s made me think a lot about our unspoken assumptions of what “learning” looks like. But my oldest is only four years old. So, I am exploring different options for next year. For other problems, I’m glad I had read the first chapter of AoPS Prealgebra and had a new understanding of the arithmetic properties, because that’s osmething I think we missed by going straight to 5 instead of doing 3 or 4. However my 11 yr old only knows algorithm/ step by step math. I jumped the gun and already ordered Singapore for the year, but I have been trying to find an alternative math curriculum. Blog She Wrote Blog She Wrote (How They Do It) A+ TutorSoft Interactive Math. I love the strategies you use for teaching math … I’ve recently discovered your website and some podcasts you were on and have found your insights to be so helpful! I’m curious to see how he would do with pretest 2C, but also wonder if I should start his guide and practice books on 2A or B to give him an intro to BA itself. And knowing AOPS, it’ll be a challenging and time-consuming course. I love Beast Academy and so does he, but it is definitely a challenge. This is a wonderful review, thank you! Then I thought we could transition to Math Mammoth in 1st grade. But if your child loves to wrestle with interesting, thought-provoking problems and thrives when concepts are presented with lots of context and visuals, Beast Academy might be a great fit. I’d suggest continuing to spend a few minutes on the math facts each day as you use Beast, but he’ll get lots of embedded practice in the problems. I’m perfectly willing to read through with her and consult the answer key at the back, but how important is it for me to already be familiar w/ these concepts? Or should I consider Singapore Math or one of its cousins? Math on the Level. Please note that comments are closed on this post. I need to make a decision in the next couple of weeks. We did some backtracking with education.com worksheets and Singapore math. However, I can bundle my order (online and books). You can learn more about the upper grade materials at artofproblemsolving.com. The first few multiplication lessons will be review, but then it will ramp up. Beast Academy is a great fit for children who do well in math but are easily bored with lots of repetitive practice. My favorite of the three is RightStart, but it’s not the best choice for every family. I don’t want them to be limited by my limitations (I’m sure all homeschooling mothers feel this way). My rising 4th grader is trying out Beast 3A this month as I decide what to do for the fall. If a student takes our Weekly Live Online Prealgebra 1 , they’ll have a once-a-week session that’s an hour and fifteen minutes, where their instructor walks them and about 50 or 60 other students through a set of math problems. In this review, I’ll explain what makes Beast Academy so different from other programs and help you decide whether it’s a good fit for your family. So, we supplemented with some Singapore and that helped my son with the lack of understanding. I love the look of the text book, and the idea of fewer , but tougher problems each day. It’s a comprehensive curriculum for grades 2-5, with four guides and four practice books per grade. My favorite so far is the cover of Guide 3D: This is Guide 3D, and the monsters are watching…a movie in 3D! The books often provide multiple solutions to the problems to help kids learn to think flexibly about math. Beast Academy is not only a serious math curriculum: it’s the most challenging math program available for these grade levels. He can tell me change for a purchase if I tell him the price, make him add ten percent tax, and then give him a larger quantity of money from which to subtract. I agree, limiting Beast Academy to the top 5% of students is unnecessarily limiting. The point of that chapter is incremental improvement from wherever kids are with their spatial reasoning, so don’t worry at all if your child can’t solve every problem. WIll BA starting at level 5 wbe too much? I was often trying to make the road so smooth for my students that they would learn without doing any hard work for themselves…but I realize now how I was often depriving them of the chance to figure things out for themselves! way too many typos in that last comment for me to fix. No manipulatives or other resources are needed. Using Beast Academy requires a very different approach to math than the traditional textbook method. I expect your kids would be in much better shape to jump back into Singapore. Beast Academy is in illustrated full-color comic book style and the main characters are all monsters (or Beasts). Beast Academy is more like a fun book than a math curriculum, but it is still incredibly educational. Khan Academy. Yikes, I can’t edit my comment – but I meant that the 3A- 3-D books seem to be the best fit, even though she’s headed for 6th grade. I have a rising 6th grader who fits your description ( hates rote math and endless problem sets, wants some thing more creative and conceptual) BUT- she has gotten turned off math generally , even though her teacher says she’s one of the top kids in class and has great “math sense”. Like having a world-class tutor for your child, these videos model the skills and problem-solving strategies needed to excel in BA Online. Why is math so hard to decide on!? He’s completely different from my first born in that he’s never been one to push to “do school” and I’ve followed his lead on that. Guest post by my husband, Jody Chambley. They don’t quite grasp the concepts and I’m trying to teach the way they learn but I feel like I’m not doing such a great job. I agree, if only every subject were like this! I definitely think you’re on the right track with that! Thanks! Thanks for the excellent reviews and the back and forth in the comments. Despite the cartoon monsters and jokes, it is a thorough, rigorous curriculum that prepares children well for higher-level math. If you have a question, you can contact me here. Sounds like BA will be a great fit for your 9yo! Enroll now! My original goal was to get her ready for competitions but honestly, while she’s good at math, after seeing Beast Academy, I don’t think she’s at competition level. I feel I need to start at the basics to remediate him or he’s never going to understand any higher level math. Yes, I can’t wait to see to see what the 2nd grade curriculum covers. Thank you for all the wonderful suggestions over there. This is so helpful, thank you! Midway, KY. 12/5/2012. Has hated math since the beginning but I feel that my traditional (Saxon, CLE) teaching may have killed any spark he may have had. Hope your son enjoys it, and happy math! She actually struggles with addition and subtraction. But, don’t let the humor and the adorable cartoon monsters fool you. We just started and she’s doing pretty well with the 5th grade Beast Academy stuff but I was actually getting really upset because I thought her school was failing her when I saw several topics they’re covering in Beast Academy that she’s not touched yet at her school. I’ll note that, to date, I’ve had good luck with apps (eg, all DragonBox apps) and online resources (eg, Reflex Math). BA will cover all the important concepts and problem-solving, and Activities for the AL Abacus will give you lots of good computation practice. I ordered BA 5 all books(A,B,C &D) If your child needs more practice with the addition and subtraction facts, take a look at my Addition Facts That Stick and Subtraction Facts That Stick for games and practice pages to get the facts solid. Conceptually he’s lost. I think it is a better fit for us than Right Start and may also be for other families. This is SO different from standard US school math where kids can literally arrive in college calculus courses with NO CLUE that a quadratic equation describes the area of a rectangle (ARGH!!!!!). In fact, he gets giddy when he sees the starred problems! We are starting 4A for my 4th grader now because I think he’s ready for more formal math and he’s interested–my eldest at that age was not ready for formal math, we more did games and talked about concepts as they came up in everyday life, aside from a stint trying to learn the times tables. The Guide book is written in an engaging comic book style, and the Practice book provides over 400 problems ranging from introductory level exercises to very challenging puzzles and word problems. But I think we will continue to go through it once we start school again just to be sure.). That wasn’t necessarily the case and his difficulty with memorizing multiplication facts has caught him more than once. My son, who was so discouraged, has completely connected with it, and is loving math now. If they’re not used to reasoning and thinking in math, it can definitely take some time to change their habits–but it’s so worth it! I’m a right-brained person so math is definitely not my thing and I don’t want to push her too much and then not be able to support her if she struggles since I’m the one who will be working with her most often even though my husband is better at math than I am. You’d need to finish Beta first (as Beast requires that kids be fluent with addition and subtraction before beginning), but then 3A would be a great place to start. Hi Kate! With my 7yo, we did Abeka in K and then moved to CLE for first grade. They have been trudging through math for the past few yrs together. I would only do the summer Pre-Algebra class over the summer if your daughter absolutely adores math and wants to spend a lot of time on it this summer. Hi Kate, It isn’t all the facts, but he seems to require “tricks” to come up with the answer for many of the facts. i know its offtopic, any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.. thank u. Thank you so much for your review of Beast Academy. Not the best solution I know, but he was cranking out four or five worksheets without thinking about it and also I was pregnant with #6 and a little overwhelmed! If your son passed the pre-test, I’d expect he’ll do just fine with Beast. (I would like my my 9y/o to go into AoPS eventually, I'm hoping that BA will prepare him) I have been doing more research and thanks to your blog and others I’m starting to see that I shouldn’t be as stressed as I was. The only thing I would NOT do is try to do both in their entirety. My son is in 2nd grade public school right now. But I also think Beast Academy would be great for kids who struggle with math because they need to know WHY formulas work instead of just being content to memorize and apply them. When in sixth grade, we realized this was not for him. I do not recommend Beast Academy for children who struggle in math (and neither do the authors.) The problem sets really are challenging – they are explicitly designed to help students develop the mental grit to handle AMC and Math Olympiad problems, and later on to tackle the kind of non-trivial open questions that real mathematicians work on. I’d say to go for it! We have always used Math U See, and he was so bored with Beta this past year that we just quit doing math about 2/3 of the way through the year. The program can really transform math for kids who are bored by math. Thank u kate for through review about beast academy.. i enrolled my kids who are 6 and 9 in beast academy online..they are gifted and are enjoying it.. would u plz recomend anything good for english language arts. If I were teaching it now, I personally would go with the printed books rather than the online program, as I think they’re more conducive to the kind of focused and sustained thinking kids need to do to really get the full benefit of the program. And paradoxically it’s harder for talented kids when they first encounter real math problems because they are used to math being easy for them. Glad you found the preschool book helpful! What level? But otherwise, I think you’re right that she doesn’t need to do that to be prepared for advanced math next year. Decisions, decisions……. Viewing 2 posts - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) Author Posts July 28, 2008 at 1:31 pm MangoMember Hi there, Wondering if … If we really wanted to build the next generation of technology innovators we would probably spend half of math class outside playing ultimate frisbee … and then go back inside and finish the problem set , I think y hit the nail on the head in your earlier post about how sometimes it’s better to solve just ONE problem. Or should I just make him wait? Also, I saw the tentative release dates for their second grade curriculum so I am hopeful that it will be released a year or so before she will need it. Thanks! But, first I think we will do some practice in Singapore and focus on those multiplication facts. Each chapter has 100-150 practice problems, ranging in difficulty from very basic practice problems to “double-star” problems: challenging multi-step problems that often require quite a bit of time and thought. Beast Academy What is it? The Momma Knows. So, if you’d like to make sure your son has at least some exposure to those topics before starting it, I suggest using a few of the Key to Decimals and Key to Percents books. He has to put the algorithm on paper to solve basic 2 digit addition & subtraction problems. I’m so glad your son is loving the challenge of Beast Academy and learning to love math again, too. Unfortunately for us they are not pumping them out fast enough. After reading this review, I ordered 3A, not sure whether it would be a bit too advanced for her or not. Oddly, it seems that hte #A-D books are where she should start – she just got through operatiosn with fractions & mixed numbers in class. But learning to struggle builds perseverance and a growth mindset, which pays off a lot in the long run. I know Singapore finishes teaching multiplication tables in grade 3 and some other fundamentals. He does well with it, using the IP for extra depth, and I like it as well. The word problems give him the most challenge. 2B now and will move on to multiplication 1) each day to help reinforce her basic skills, but my daughter has just LOVED Beast Academy. I got Right Start after taking the quiz, but I just ordered Shiller Math. He knows squares and square roots through the 12s. Beast Academy offers a full math curriculum for future math beasts. No need to worry about switching around a lot in these early grades–all these programs cover similar basics, so I don’t expect you’d have any trouble with gaps. He’s also expressed frustration with not being allowed to find creative ways to solve a problem. My problem is I’m not sure it would accurately dictate that she’s really ready for pre-algebra. I haven’t had her take the pre-test yet but just from a quick glance, I think she would pass it without an issue. Would BA be good? For example, here are three different ways that the final chapter of 3B presents the distributive property: Throughout the guides, stop signs in the text remind kids to stop and solve the problems themselves before they read the characters’ answers. HAHA! JW, there’s so much I agree with in your comment that I don’t even know where to begin! I think you’d probably want to look at the Levels 3&4 problems: http://www.mathkangaroo.org/mk/sample_questions.html. First, just wanted to say that I really loved your episode on Pam Barnhill’s podcast! But if you find that your kids are thriving on the level of challenge and that you’re able to help them along with the answer key, then full speed ahead! I was leaning towards Math Mammoth but she actually seemed to like Beast Academy and I think she could handle the higher-level thinking required (I think it would be good for her), so we might go with that. My twin boys age 9 have struggled with math. 48 talking about this. I didn’t see a review for Shiller on this website. Make him finish up Beta first? She has done well with public school math, in that she got good grades, but doesn’t feel like she is “good at math”. So, there is more than one road to Timbuktu and I think Beast is a fantastic addition to the map, however a family wants to use it. I recently learned about math competitions and came across AOPS and Beast Academy and became immediately disillusioned. If your son loves math and is doing well with it, I think you’ll be fine starting in level 5. I would like to switch him over to Beast Academy since I am purchasing AoPS pre-algebra for his older brother. I bet your son will LOVE it, Sarah! In the end we didn't pursue it past the first book I bought. My 11 yr old processes new info very slowly..very very slowly. What is Beast Academy Math? She wants to enroll in Advanced Math next year and her teacher thinks she can do it so I was hoping to enroll her in pre-algebra via AOPS over the summer to prepare her. In-depth and detailed Beast Academy review. But one option would be to continue with Singapore and dabble in BA when you feel like you need a little change of pace. I had been considering Beast Academy for my daughter (8 yrs, starting 3rd grade) because she just wasn’t enjoying math. I like your books. I’d love your suggestions or recommendations! . Why do I have to write it out?”. Math with Confidence. The multistep, “deep” format of the questions had him very intimidated. Thanks so much! But I wish you would at least ship them for free, considering the fact that you send them media mail, which is very inexpensive for you and takes a full week to arrive. Am I crazy to have him go back 3/4 of a year to try this?!?!?!? I think he missed all the word problems in 2B. I’ve found it to be very helpful for kids who struggle in math. I’m an engineering graduate and I have not known how to do some of these problems, mainly, I think, because I was good at learning the rules as a child but problem-solving, not so much. It sounds like Beast could be a great fit for re-setting how he feels about math. i am not impressed by institutes like kumon ,eye level,best brains for that matter. I just started going through the 2A book with my son, who likes it so far. That was actually the first book, and it doesn’t expect that kids know much beyond place-value, addition, and subtraction. I’m wondering, though, if you think it might work well for a student who isn’t quite as strong in math, but is a very strong reader and artistically minded and might enjoy this format more than a traditional approach? Love the comic book style, but really love that BA focuses on critical and spatial reasoning and not just rote memorization. I haven’t looked at Beast online in a lot of detail, but I’m with you–I trust AOPS to make good materials, and I wouldn’t hesitate to use it. 1) Read the FAQ at beastacademy.com/faq before starting. Silly, I know. Take a look at the reviews under the Curriculum tab at the top of the page for the pros and cons of each .. (Take a look at the Level 2A placement test for more details.) I think Richard Rusczyk is unnecessarily limiting his audience with these grade level labels and his statement that the books are geared towards the top 5% of students. But, I do think they can be good at it, understand it’s concepts, and still not like it; as long as they “get it.” Thanks, again. It might help to keep in mind that Beast is written for kids to be ready to start the very-challenging Art of Problem Solving’s Pre-algebra text after 5D. What are your thoughts on starting her with BA? He prefers anything online based but I don’t want to do that if there are disadvantages. I see that they say the 2nd grade levels will all be out by winter of 2019 so we should be right on track. In the very beginning Math was a challenge for her so we slowed down a bit. He took one look at the pretest for 3d and 4a and was far to intimidated to even try (even though he has learned all the skills necessary to solve the problems on both tests. My daughter is a rising fifth grader. I know RS is recommended by MBtP, but my concern is that he will be coming out of 2 years of traditional math. Thank you! He did however LOVE all of the puzzle type questions. )I suspect Richard Rusczyk has focused on high achievers for so long that he’s forgotten what the other 95% are capable of, too. I may be over thinking it but I don’t want to set her up to fail and I’m not even sure if she needs to take pre-algebra yet to excel in Advanced Math in 6th grade next year. My son was immediately ... Read moreHow I Schedule Beast Academy, in 5 Steps I’m a little hesitant to switch from something that works reasonably well, but I’m wondering if Beast would help spark that love for math, or if it would just frustrate us. So, even if you spend three full years on Beast, your son would still be ready to start pre-algebra in 7th grade, which is right on target. Different programs just work better for different learning styles…and sometimes we just have to experiment before we know what works best. I’m not sure where to go from here. Is there something that he can work through over the summer to get him up to speed? I want the very best for my children and I don’t want to assume they’re not “mathy” because I wasn’t. I have a quick second grader who loves math, and he FLEW through Singapore 2A and B this year (finished in March). (I’m also terrible at spatial reasoning myself, I have to admit.) I don’t want to do that to my son, so I’ve been looking for something both interesting and rigorous. I really appreciate that you take time to respond to the comments. You’d probably want to start him in 3A (which begins laying the foundation for multiplication) and then work up from there. just forgive me . My son loves math, but Beast Academy is the only math book that he ever begged to read. I think this is good on the whole. I so appreciate you sharing your math help with all of us! To challenge his lazy, I’d rather be playing video games but I can be pretty smart when I try, attitude and mind. Thanks for the info on the reporting, too. While the guides introduce the concepts, the real substance of the program is in the practice books. They’re thin, inexpensive workbooks (available from Rainbow Resource) that provide a gentle conceptual coverage of those topics. The Curriculum Choice. where I will be of no help. I thought Beast might broaden their horizons and flip switches in their brains that even Singapore won’t. (To be ready for Beast Academy, you’d want to have your child work through RightStart Level C, Math Mammoth 2B, or Singapore Math 2B. He can certainly read along with your 9yo and enjoy the graphic novels, but it won’t have enough practice for him. (To be ready for Beast Academy, you’d want to have your child work through RightStart Level C, Math Mammoth 2B, or Singapore Math 2B. He attends a local charter school. But, it’s more rigorous because it requires children to stretch their brains and apply their knowledge in a variety of ways. He can read and understand numbers into the quintillions. Does BA have enough practice for this kind of mind? (It can be hard for parents to watch, too–just ask me how I know!) But who knows, maybe she’ll discover that she loves the challenge of really meaty problems? 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