Wren - we used EPGY in the past and so it is interesting to hear that CTY is now different. Zen Scanner - you have beautifully summarized how I feel my son thinks - thank you smile
Today we bought him a scientific calculator with graphing capabilities. He spent hours looking at it and being very excited about it. I feel this is just like giving him the solutions to make him then work on the steps - having this type of calculator will give him some big picture ideas/ topics and will also make him look at the steps as sometimes I feel that he believes a computer class (like Art of Problem Solving) / calculator more than if mom or dad write it out on paper wink.