I am in love with Aleks!
Aleks is a subscription based math program that goes from third to twelfth grade. Hannah had finished third grade math through Calvert and I wanted to review some before heading to fourth grade. After all, she was still six. She assessed at 58% finished third grade. Hmm...that's odd, she already finished a third grade math program. So I paid careful attention to what she was learning. Turns out, there were some things Calvert hadn't covered, so Hannah wasn't really deficient in math. New to her was place value to the millions, nets of solids, and some other cool stuff. It took a little more than two weeks to finish the Aleks version of third grade math and we're on to fourth. We just started today and Hannah is most excited about the purple slice of the pie chart that tracks her progress that says algebra!
Third grade covered 111 topics and fourth grade covers 176 BUT since math is built on itself, fourth grade is third grade plus 65, and she is already done 67% of fourth grade! I think this is partially due to reviewing material after summer break. I am sold on Aleks, but our one month free trial is almost done.
Today alone she covered measuring angles, plotting fractions on a line graph, negative numbers on the thermometer, divisibility rules for 3 and 9 with a review of 5 and 10, histograms, double bar graphs, and tree diagrams. And she only worked for an hour! |
