We have no experience of EPGY or Redbird (inferring that Redbird new EPGY) but I have seen numerous reports leaving me with the impression. that the new EPGY no longer allows testing out of mastered sections or advancing once current material is mastered without enormous amounts of repetition.
Any approach that doesn't allow students to advance once mastery of current material has been demonstrated is not just pedagogically wrong-headed it is damaging to many gifted kids.
I would therefore not touch EPGY/Redbird with a barge pole for a kid gifted with Maths.
For a kid struggling with Maths, yes, because the repetitious nature of it may help with automaticity but I wouldn't force a kid that understands already to do drills ad nauseam for the sake of it like EPGY appears to.
Last edited by madeinuk; 09/06/15 07:54 AM.
