This site is only $10 a month as compared to $200 a month with John Hopkins. MY DS7 has done 3 courses with John Hopkins. This ixl site is very similar and my DS7 likes it way more than John Hopkins. It is more fun. It is a good alternative to John Hopkins or it is a good site if you want to takea break from John Hopkins and practice b4 taking up a new course. You can't beat the price. It keeps track of the students performace like John Hopkins, it tells you their weak areas etc. You can pay month by month even.

http://www.ixl.com

CTY is EPGY in math, through grade 6, at least in the main math program. So the EPGY OE program is close at $135 a year versus $120 for ixl, just FYI.

My youngers enjoyed the trial we had with ixl.

Hi Melmichigan,
I am confused. We spent 1800 for 9 months with John Hopkins CTY the online program. Is EPGY a different thing?

Oh is that a Standford program? I never heard of this! I am checking it out now. THANKS!
http://epgy.stanford.edu/

Hi melmichigan, what's EPGY OE? I know the EPGY bit, but not the OE.

TIA.

Tks, Gifted Mom.

CTY's main math program, through 6th, is Stanford EPGY math, they just resell it. Stanford now has the EPGY Open Enrollment available which is the same math program without the tutors at significant discount, as mentioned above. If you search EPGY under my posts you will find all the threads about it.

I have never used any of the math online programs. Just starting to learn about everything gifted. DS5 really likes Math, what program is easier for a 5-6 year old to navigate through and enjoyable at that age?

Thx.

I don't know if you have used this at all but there are some classes here as well: http://www.virtualhomeschoolgroup.com/

Memc,

I didn't use any online program for math either when my son was at that age. He's 7 now and seems to like computer instruction now, so I've been trawling the internet. Some of the fun and free stuff that have different grade levels:

1. www.funbrain.com. Seems like a lot of lead-on ads for games that require paying. But the math arcade is really fun.

2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks1bitesize/ - this one, my son absolutely loves! Has math, science, literacy. I've given you the Keystage 1 site which is possibly the earliest level. You can search around for Keystage 2 and so forth.

Have fun!

I would look at HeyMath website. It is $99/year and many Singapore Math users use it. They have a free trial. I will be buying this soon. It looks great IMHO.
http://www.heymath.com/index_row.jsp

Classicsmom,

This is terrific! We've been on Singapore Math on and off. Think it's on again for the next few months. And given that my son suddenly loves online math instruction, this will be just right.

Here's a free site that his teacher at school requires him to use for math acceleration in class:
http://www.mathplayground.com/

It's fabulous - the math games section is heavy on pre-algebra and algebra concepts. This is my son's favourite site now.

Enjoy!

WHAT?? John Hop CTY is really EPGY???? That is crazy!
It is sooo expensive. Then why would anyone enroll their kid in John Hopkins? My DS took 3 classes $1800!

Isn't it a little cheaper through CTY than EPGY? I can't remember.

CTY also resells PLATO for middle school science and uses Thinkwell for the higher math and I believe it's called Honors Sciences, I don't have time to look it up right now. I believe we had a post a while back about who resells what because you can get a large majority of it cheaper through things like www.homeschoolbuyersco-op.org and the OE program.

Thanks Melissa. I am pretty sure CTY is WAY more expensive just because of the teacher but really how often do you even talk to them.

That is why EPGY started the OE program. So many of the younger grades don't use the tutors at all. There are so many people who can't afford $495 for 3 months through the individual program.