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Please make sure you are aware of the need to contact me to change your child to the gifted setting (if you have not already done so). EPGY has recently stated that all children who meet the requirements for their individual program would be working on the gifted setting, which I need to manually change in each case. (Still at the discretion of the parent.)

(Many have already taken advantage of this option using the guidelines that EPGY had previously released and from your own experiences with your child but I felt the need to post when I printed a report an realized how few students are using this setting.)

Out of curiosity, what's the difference between the settings?

(We've got another month or so in the non-group open enrollment program, and I kind of like that I can fiddle with my own settings, but I like to break stuff to see how it works. I don't know if we're going to continue with EPGY in the near term, because DD "wants third grade math to be hard" so isn't doing it at the moment, but I anticipate we'll go back at some point. If there's an advantage to going through the group other than the price break, we might want to go that route when we pick back up.)

Hi mel,
wondering too what the difference is. My little one does qualify for the individual program but we really wanted to save the $$ this year and not do that program yet. Perhaps when little one is older and has had some practice with the group OE program.

I'll email you directly about it. Thanks for posting your note.

Previously when I asked about settings I was assured that everyone at EPGY worked at the default setting and was given guidelines to follow to move students beyond that to the "gifted" setting, which I posted on the yahoo group. It has come to my attention that all students in the individual program work at the gifted setting. I printed a report and was amazed at how few students, especially with the caliber of kids (of parents) on this forum, use that setting in my "class". Basically I think EPGY forgot about/didn't fully realize the caliber of the kids we are discussing when they answered my previous questions and I don't want to see kids unncessarily frustrated because of it.

The gifted setting is the first step in eliminating repetitive exercises. It cuts the program down to help curb frustration. The program has always moved a child ahead based on ability, but within a given range. The gifted setting changes that range so the child can move faster through mastered material. If it isn't enought I can adjust more settings. The program is now giving the parent the option of moving a child up by half a grade (exactly 0.5) without having to contact me. (I would still suggest parents contact me and have me start the child at the beginning of a level if the program will set them in an odd place i.e 5.2, where they would miss the introduction to the level.)

If possible maybe a few parents would be willing to share their experiences with the differences.

I'd love to hear other people's experiences, too.

We did jump (on our own) to 3.0 after giving the lower lessons a cursory try. Every session, it still runs DS through a bit of review, like basic multiplication concepts, even though he has them memorized and doesn't need the repetition. I thought that once he showed he knew them, he wouldn't see them again lesson after lesson. It's not a big deal for me as a parent, but when DS starts getting bored, that's when he makes keyboard mistakes (while his head is drooping off the edge of the table! LOL).

EPGY Math is great, though. Once he can start flying at a faster clip, I think DS will realize how much better this is than the workbook alternatives!

(Melissa, I did email you separately to ask you to bump ours to the gifted setting. Thanks for looking into this!!)