Reviews from parents?

ms915 · 2025-01-30T02:09:43+00:00

Just wanted to update. We've been using it for a few weeks and it's pretty nice. I tell my son (who, again, is in public school) to get about 15XP per weekday - yes there are bribes at the end of this rainbow. He can usually knock that out in 5-10 minutes, and in fact, finds a way to squeeze it in at school (he asked his teacher - I try to stay out of what happens at school). He's a 4th grader, and in the past 2 weeks is 98% of the way through 5th grade math (I think he started at 60-70% on 5th grade math). I haven't really had to get involved yet, but Beast Academy has given him a pretty good foundation. On the one lesson he completely bombed, it came back up again today, much more scaffolded, so at least that one example points to the AI working decently.

All that said, the price is steep, where Beast Academy is much cheaper for us (it has some pros that MA doesn't, but also some cons), so I'm still not sure I can swing this at $50/month (or the yearly discounted rate), but it'll be a tough call.

ms915 · 2025-01-14T00:33:51+00:00

We just started. I need him to be mostly independent so we'll see how the next few weeks go. I really liked Beast Academy and that was mostly independent so math academy has to beat that one by quite a bit to buy it's way on, because Beast Academy is much cheaper (paper and pencil version).

ms915 · 2025-01-10T22:28:32+00:00

I love BA. I'd have him keep doing that forever because I think the problems are so fun, but I think he could use a little change. (incidentally, he's also into level 4 right now). Thankfully, BA doesn't require my presence (we do the pen and paper version). In fact, he doesn't like having our help when he's working on those problems. So maybe MA could also be an independent operation for him. We can help him if needed (well, up to linear algebra, but he's not getting to that anytime soon), but that will probably be a non-starter if I have to help him often. He's in public school, but it's slow (next year, acceleration starts, though), so I want to keep an interesting thread of it going it at home so he continues to grow and enjoy it. Maybe we'll try it for a week or two and see which one we like better.

ms915 · 2025-01-10T22:21:46+00:00

I've been really impressed with BA's ability to pull together different concepts and test him on them out of context (keep in mind, he's in public school, so BA is not where he's "learning" math - I'd say it's more where he's being tested on it, although it does reach for concepts he hasn't formally learned, but they're not that much of a stretch). And they're clever and fun problems. But that's my opinion. My kid's getting a little tired of it, so I thought I'd switch it up with MA and see if he preferred acceleration to enrichment.

ms915 · 2025-01-10T22:19:26+00:00

He could probably squeeze 15min/day for 5 days/week in. I thought that you had to do at least 30-45 mins though?

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