Please suggest an online math course

[heartmama]

Ds (13, always homeschooled) will be going to high school next year part time at a small charter school that accepted him.

I would like to enroll him in an online math course to prepare him for the experience next year. Math is his weakest subject.

I am looking for an online course that gives clear lessons and provides some kind of teacher feedback, either via a very smart computer program or an actual teacher involved on the virtual level.

Can you suggest anything?

[theretohere]

Math through K12?

[Lillian J]

You might look into The Federal Way Internet Academy - it's connected with a WA public school, but they say "While many of our students reside in Federal Way, we’ve had students enroll from other cities, states, and even countries."

In his article, A Travel Excursion of the Mind, David Albert wrote "We liked the Internet Academy primarily because it gave the kids a pretest before trying to do any instruction—that way if the kids already knew the material, they didn’t have to repeat it. No busywork! And following a “test,” the computer would isolate only those areas where problems were still occurring, and only require a review of these. Slick and efficient, and it left time for us, as parents, to focus on the all-important context in which math education occurs, which is what the first part of this essay is all about."

Lillian

[Dar]

Aleks?

[MaWhit]

mindsprinting.com?

[elizawill]

aleks was my first thought too.

[dyehappy]

subbing . . . my 14yo DD needs a supplemental math course as well.

[mom2ponygirl]

I've heard that www.aleks.com is great for getting the basics down and immediate feedback on what you have mastered and what you need to work on. Time4learning also has been used similarly but I don't think you can subscribe to just the math.

For deeper more rigorous math, you can beat - www.artofproblemsolving.com

[lorrielink]

I cannot reccomend Aleks enough. My son (10) has been using it for the last 2 months and completely loves it. He gets to choose what to work on, there is a Pie chart that he can visually see the progress he is making, there are worksheets you can print out that are automatically generated based on what he has been working on, you can generate reports for youself to overview what hes done. The program is incredibly intuitive, there is always further explianation for each problem and never says "wrong" it just says "mastered subject" and "almost mastered" and things like that.
and you can take a free trial to check it out.

[heartmama]

Thank you all so much for the suggestions!

I will check these out tonight.