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So I see that you can now do a 3 month $45 deal with EPGY math - any feedback ? I am thinking about enrolling ds7 - I asked him yesterday when the last time was that he learned anything in math, and he told me "in preschool" (when he learned to count to 100). He is in 2nd grade, and goes to 3rd grade math 4 days a week - yesterday, they started to learn multiplication - playing a game where they rolled a dice, drew that number of circles, rolled the dice again, and wrote that number in each circle, then added the numbers to solve the problem. Is that REALLY 3rd grade math ?? Oh boy. I was thinking if we started the EPGY math, we could then show his teachers at conferences (in about a month) what he is capable of, and go from there ? Go where, I don't know LOL

Hey, yours is learning multiplication in 3rd grade math!

We've been back to school 4 weeks now, and they're working on thousands place value, 3-digit addition with carrying, and 3-digit subtraction without borrowing. Between now and the end of the 9-week grading period, they'll go up to 4 digits, and add borrowing to subtraction. We don't get to multiplication until the 2nd 9 weeks.

Even though EPGY theoretically moves from grade to grade, it has an artifact split between 2nd and 3rd, where there's a huge chunk of review at the beginning of the 3rd grade material. (It's broken up into K-2 and 3-5, or something like that, so 3 is kind of designed as an entry point, whereas 2 assumes you've had the prior material through them.) If I had a bright kid who was on the edge, I'd start them at 3, rather than 2.

DD worked a couple weeks into the 3rd grade material, and still hadn't hit subtraction with borrowing, although they covered quite a bit of multiplication-with-products-less-than-20. CA standards don't map well to our state's standards.

I also really dislike the way EPGY presents solving simultaneous equations - all rote, with no ability to set the problem up differently if the different way makes more sense to your kid.

For a kid who can do 3rd grade work, ALEKS is another possibility. We haven't tried that one, but I know lots of people here have.

EPGY saved my 10 y/o from hating math.

In school they are on their 3rd week of expanded form...He screams everynight... WHY???

I get him on EPGY and the light bulb goes off...he loves the pace he loves the fact that instruction is brief and then presto problems to solve. I am really grateful for the program it really is "fun" way to learn Math.

We haven't done EPGY, but we instead, purchased the LOF books (we only have one so far) but DC found them hilarious and fun to do, so that has worked for us as a replacement of things. We have since been grade skipped but still like to do this on the side because it's fun and the material in the new grade isn't that challenging either. At least LOF is entertaining.

My kids hated EPGY math. To me it seemed like first generation software. I don't know if they have made any improvements since my kids tried it about 18 months ago. It did not move you forward quickly when you had mastered something, it was boring visually, and the man's droning voice set my kids' teeth on edge. I would ask for a demo before paying money for it. I've heard good things about ALEKS but haven't tried it yet. Our school district recently switched from EPGY to ALEKS for its enrichment program. If you want to check out some free software, my kids liked http://www.mathplayground.com/

Sounds like we'll either love it - or hate it Thanks for the feedback! I did sign him up today - it's raining out, so something for him to do while I deal with the daycare children. I figure if he hates it, at least we've tried it and it isn't TOO spendy