We used ALEKS at home, not at school, and we"be used it both with our kids who pick up math concepts quickly and our dd who is math-concept-challenged. I think the teacher should be able to set a parameter in ALEKS to require more than three correct answers to master a topic, but I'm not absolutely certain of that. Do you have access to your child's ALEKS account as a parent? If you do, you can create custom quizzes really easily to give your child extra practice in modules they are either working on or modules they've completed.

I loved ALEKS for supplementing at home and for self-paced learning for kids who are naturally math-brained, but the weakness of ALEKS is that it's just practice and written explanations - if your child doesn't have supporting teaching both in explanations and help with answering questions at school I can't imagine it would work as a curriculum for a child who is not math-inclined.

polarbear

Last edited by polarbear; 01/16/12 12:38 PM.