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Thanks - we'll take a look at it!

For gap remediation, they might want to try something like ALEKS, which is set up to pretest and only present topics that the student needs to work on, in addition to whatever regular curriculum they end up using.

Thanks, everyone. I may have a hard time convincing the coordinator to go with a mastery curriculum but it's a worthy goal.

After reading your post, Kcab, I looked at that singapore math website you bookmarked. We have only used the blue and white books, not the Primary Education books you cite. Should we get those primary education books too? SO far, the blue and white ones have worked very well.

I think that the most important thing is that math is taught from a Constructivist perspective.

http://teachingmybabytoread.blog.com/math/

We are using Right Start to afterschool my six year old. Right now he is doing Level D, but here is my review of Level C:

http://teachingmybabytoread.blog.com/2011/06/14/review-right-start-level-c/

We love beestar and DD does the math program at home. The worksheets are full of real life world problems, challenging stuff to help kids thinking. Pretty cool~~
Lisa

I'm not a teacher.

From a parent's perspective: please stay away from using Every Day Math, aka EDM, as the core of ANY program, gifted or not. The spiralling back method, where weeks later the kids are asked to "recall" what they did back then, and apply it to what they are being newly introduced to right now, does not seem to work with most kids. At least, not for math.

Plus, I HATE the seeming reliance on calculators in that program, for young kids.

DS8 still has issues, having used EDM at his old school for Grades PS, K, and 1.

I am not familiar with Singapore Math.

The G&T program here is basically IEP/pull-outs for PG kids, and giving kids who are advanced or superior, but not PG, extra work to do while the teacher works with others in class. The extra work seems to be busy work, as only the "real" work, same as the others do, counts towards any grades.

FASTT Math and MathMasters online, self chosen, self directed, are a daily part of my son's math lessons in his school.

I think I am going to ask about Singapore Math at his school.

I've posted before how much we love singapore math. It's very visual and emphasizes problem solving skills. We did take a break for a bit to get math facts down better with Kumon drill and kill, but we will go back to it soon.
Our school used Everyday Math. It seems muddled. My son is very good at math and I think he didn't care what curriculum was used.