My son's 1st grade teacher gave him a 2nd grade workbook for math homework today. This will be a *substitute* for (not in addition to) the regular h/w. Yesss!
DS6 has been bored and distractible since the beginning of the year, and initially we got nowhere asking his teacher to give him more challenging work. Then, earlier this week DS stayed home from school with a cough, and I gave him some more advanced math work to do (based on the Aleks site -- Grinity's suggestion, I think) and sent it to school with him the next day to show his teacher (thanks, ColinsMum, CAmom and others). She said he was so proud to show her what he could do. And now the new workbook... DS is stoked.
Not a complete solution, but definitely a step in the right direction!
