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Hi, In a bid to tire my son I am going to sign up to Aleks Maths and see how it goes over his 4 week Easter holiday! I just can't figure out what course to choose when I sign up - my DS is (almost 7) but we are in the UK so I don't know what Grade that would be and then he is fairly advanced at Maths... does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.

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We started at Lv 3 but you might want to start Lv 4 and see. I noticed when we moved up (fairly quickly) that a lot was repeated in Lv 4 and DD8 (just turned) got credit for a lot in Lv 4 as well. One thing to know is that it will give him an assessment when you start and the website tells you (not sure where I read this) if they score above 90% on the initial assessment to move them up. But even it's above 70-80% it will go pretty quickly. I think we started Lv 3 at maybe 60-70% range and finished the first level pretty quickly only doing maybe 15-20 min 3-4 days/week.

Thanks mschaff, I will go for Lv4 and see what happens with the initial assessment. It is good to know that there is flexibility to move levels if necessary.

Or you can have him take a pre-test and start at where he is now...

Thanks Ania, I didn't realise that there was a pre-test but I have finally done it and signed him up on Lv4 and it seemed to be right for him as he completed 80% of his pie - this pie thing is brilliant, it really seems to motivate him! He is now just working through all the bits he doesn't know. I am really impressed with Aleks so far and it seems to be a great way of keeping DS occupied!

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