Originally Posted by AlexsMom
There's not much emphasis on timed drills, which DD hates.

A lot of the textbooks are horrible, too.

The timed drills are critical for later success in math and the other quantitative classes up through calculus. You have to have the answers to trivial things immediately so you can focus on the hard parts. Its like dribbling in basketball. It has to be second nature. The secondary aspect of timed drills is learning to focus while under stress.