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Thanks for the update and glad to hear the teacher is on board with him taking the MAP test. Can you volunteer to help in the classroom so he has some help working through the frustration of not knowing the answer right away?

Actually, I do volunteer in his classroom for 2.5 hours per week. And when I am there, I work with the top 5 or 6 math students about half the time. But, what we do is enrichment, so I will quickly have them do their math journal work and then they will do math dominoes or math connect 4 or something like that. Not exactly hard and not progressing through the curriculum. And I kinda feel like if I have to go in to make sure he's getting individual attention during math at school that I can just continue basically afterschooling him in the math that he does want.

I'm starting to wonder whether people may wonder whether I'm on commission, but I wonder whether you've looked at ALEKS (www.aleks.com)? Your teacher sounds as though she's on your side, but you say the extra work she's providing also isn't at your DS's level, which makes me think whether it might be useful if you could send in ALEKS worksheets instead. (There is also EPGY with the open enrollment that melmichigan runs, which many people like better, but which doesn't AIUI let you produce worksheets customised to the individual child - sounds as though in your case that might be the really valuable thing.) If you haven't looked at it before, you might like to try their free trial and see what your DS makes of it.