DS5.5 will technically be in "first grade" in the fall (We homeschool.) and is somewhat mathy. He resists a lot of formal teaching work and I haven't much pushed things this past year.
He doesn't have the math facts down yet, but understands the concepts of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. We've done some work with traditional algorithmic methods of adding and subtracting multi-digit numbers. He tries to do them in his head and sometimes gets it wrong.
When I look at the pre-test for Beast Academy, there's some I know he could do and some that he's never been exposed to (due to lack of formal curriculum), but I think that if he was introduced to the ideas, he could do it.
I'm attracted to BA because of the comic book format and the challenge of the problems (some of the samples stumped me for awhile). I thought because it looks "fun" and "hard" that he might be more interested. (I bought RightStart last year and it hasn't gone over well at all.)
However, he might not be there yet. I know that it's meant for 3rd graders and mathy kids in general, so maybe I'm being too hopeful or something.
I'd love to hear experiences with it, what your child was doing prior to starting BA and how they liked it. I'm wondering if I should just jump into it or maybe find something else to do for another year or half. We don't have a lot of money to be buying things that aren't right.
