ALEKS appears to be useful for a small subset of the population.

I have a lot of criticisms to level at it, but realize that he can keep choosing to do additional problems on a skill even once ALEKS has determined that your son has mastered it.

A few ideas based on what we're doing in my house: I have started requiring that my daughter
*print off and file into a binder all explanations she reads.
*write out her solutions to the problem as if they were homework to hand into her teacher, neatly and in a notebook, and
*do as many of the topics in a cluster at the same time, so she has to work through only fractions problems until she runs out before moving to topics on another pie or even another flavor of subtopic with a pie slice.

This seems to help. My daughter, however, does not struggle with math, yet ALEKS is successfully teaching her to hate math.

Last edited by geofizz; 01/16/12 12:19 PM.