Maths: Khan Academy

Usually I label these posts "Congratulations Miya" or "Congratulations Mulan", but they are happening too often these days.

Miya has just finished Khan Academy 3rd Grade maths.

A sticking point for her has been learning her times tables facts, but she has got them for the most part now, and has now been able to complete 3rd Grade.  It is still a work in progress to get them all fast and automatic, but the ones she doesn't know automatically she can work out in her head fairly quickly.

Miya is also 68% of her way through 4th Grade.  Our gentle, no-stress goal is to finish 4th Grade in the next few months.  If she was in the US she'd currently be in 3rd Grade, so our no-stress goal would mean that she'd be over one year ahead of her age.

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Meanwhile, Mulan is 98% of her way through Khan Academy 8th Grade maths.

When she finishes this in the next few days I'll need to figure out the system Khan Academy uses for its "High school" level maths.  After 8th Grade it uses a different system that doesn't label the grades year-by-year.

If Mulan was in the US she'd be in 6th Grade, so she is over two years ahead of her age.

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As I've commented before, in US/China Mulan is three school years older than Miya.  However, in New Zealand Mulan is four school years older than Miya.  The school year system is fairly arbitrary, so how they compare with their school year is at best merely a useful rough guide to check that we are doing the right amount of work here at home.

Practically, what is more important is that the children are learning to their own individual potential.  These achievements are a result of spending anywhere between 3 and 30 minutes a day, every day, on maths problems that are typically challenging but do-able for them.

(I last commented on the girls' maths in January.)