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My son is 6 and in a half-day K program. To this point, he's been all about reading (taught himself to read at 4 and is currently reading on 4th grade level). He's been showing interest in math over the last couple of months. I always did well in math but I will admit that it's not an area that I feel particularly confident in. I was always a reader/writer-type. Anyway, I started doing Bedtime Math with him a couple of months ago and he LOVES it. He was home sick last week (sick enough to be out of school but well enough to drive me crazy) and wanted to do math and in an impulsive moment I signed up for a month of ixl. He is loving it and has completed 20% of first grade math with no help from me. My questions: 1, How accurate is ixl with regard to math/grade? 2, is there something he might like more that he can do relatively independently? Thanks in advance!!

We tried ixl last year and liked it. The grades seemed fair with what I've read about the common core milestones, but we're not in the public system yet so I don't know for sure. We just got our first tablet and I'm trying to research some apps that might be more fun in a game-ish way. We just got dragonbox. DS4 seems to like it so far. I'll be watching this thread for ideas.

There a number of past threads with a wide range of online math systems. My son's school uses IXL for acceleration and specific backing of skills. It aligns pretty tightly with their curriculum.

We're un/homeschooling Kindergarten at the moment (started right after thanksgiving) and for math we're doing Dreambox learning. My only requirement for math every day is that DS5.7 gets 3 rewards in Dreambox learning ... it's up to him to choose whatever activity in there that he wants to do. We just started being more serious about it maybe 5 or 6 weeks ago and he's now doing early 2nd grade work. I just let him work at his own speed in there and unless he asks me to explain thing, I let him figure everything in there on his own. It also tells you the requirements that he's already completed (might be helpful for your portfolio ... I read your other thread about what you need to keep to show the state).

Thank you all so much!

KTPie, Ixl aligns nicely with common core and our public school district uses it starting at k level. I used that site for dd4.5 6 months ago and she started at 1st grade and completed it fairly quickly. Then she went to 2nd grade and got real bored with the repetition. Plus she really enjoys using math to solve problems instead of just doing the operations. So we stopped. Now we use Singapore math workbooks and Flash kids workbook for gifted kids and for most parts she can work independently. Unlike your kid, dd is not advanced in reading so I still have to read her some of the problems. So if you are okay with paper math instead of online, this might work.

Thank you, lovemydd! I'll check those out

FYI: Go to njctl.org and click on courses --> common core math and you will find presentations, classwork and homework, and projects all for free and matched to common core at each grade level.

Thank you!

Khan Academy seems to have added much more content in the Common Core area of the site.