Hi Dottie,thanks for all the info!!
Not really shooting for acceleration per-se, but rather harder math, there doesn't seem an easy way to get that.
Ds has 'hung in there' waiting/asking for harder math for years and I think it is just time.
He is doing epgy beginning algebra, which is 8th grade-ish, but really I am not sure it would make sense to have him in a regular 8th grade math class, so that is not what I am shooting for. Long term, I want him challenged, open to the idea of himself as mathematically capable, if not actually gifted in that area.
He tends to think in extremes, if he isn't super great with something then he thinks that he's terrible at it. His speed issue has often skewed his and other's perceptions of his basic ability in math, I do think his ability is very good (94th percentile naglieri numbers though he was also diagnosed as depressed at the time, and the speed/ld issue).
I want him to see the fun that math can be, and it seems that the harder epgy stuff is at least much more interesting that the stuff he is getting in school. Today we looked at the list of the remainder of the course and he was happy to see what was in store though he doesn't know what is all means, and happy to see the course does have an end!
Explore I don't know anything about, again I'd be shy of anything that is timed for him (or has only timed sections). I will take a look, thanks for the suggestion!
The child is just unusual, and there's the rub in getting what he needs, since I can't even figure out necessarily what he needs!
thanks again for the response!
