I went back to my notes and I remember now having the pie coming up after 4->5 level change, but not 3->4.
Ha, the opposite way round to what we saw. I think I'll email them at some point. Probably depends on whether you move the mouse widdershins or whatever the opposite of widdershins is at some crucial moment :-)
Overall, I'm still pleased with ALEKS with respect to my son's advancement and mastery from L3->L6. He really enjoyed the pacing, and so far everything is "sticking."
EPGY starts on 12/1, and after comparing the course detail between ALEKS & EPGY, there's more than enough new material to warrant him starting with Grade 6 @ EPGY.
I'll be really interested to hear how you get on with it, especially whether you manage to get it to be paced correctly for your son, since that seems to be some people's reservation about it. As DS is not that keen on ALEKS right now, we're doing mostly sporadic things, though I'm using syllabus lists as one source of ideas for things to bring up. Three figure bearings, polar coordinates and the connection with Pythagoras' thm today (but no trig yet!) prompted by a combination of a Murderous Maths episode and the first of the Dimensions videos that we watched the other day (they are great!), followed by re-watching that and another episode, and then he insisted on doing an Eratosthenes' sieve with zillions of coloured pens, again. Not bad for a Friday afternoon after a week of school. Surely better for his mathematical development than following a syllabus really, given that he does have school, but I find that *I* hanker after that handrail, somehow!
