Beast Academy

Beast Academy is a series of books, a set of a textbook and practice book, which go beyond typical math-they take the simple and make it fun and take you on a discovery adventure. The teaching is done by beasts who are themselves learning along the way. The practice books are great. There are three level problems-easy, medium and hard. If you grew up in Bulgaria the word for the practice book is Сборник.

I remember when I was in third grade I used one for the first time. It was not entertaining and I dreaded the three star problems. But I remembered them! I remembered why I couldn't do them on my own and I remembered my mom and dad helping me with clues, struggling themselves and basically showing me the process of trial and error. Problems do not typically come with a clear cut route to follow. Problems are just problems. Among many tools you need to pick some and take them as far as you can, hopefully, to a solution, but if you fail, you just pick better tools, walk the walk and so forth until eventually you become better at picking the right tools for the jobs at hand.

Yes, these math books help your child get their taste of problem solving. This is for everybody. Forget about the gifted and the non-gifted labels. The reason labels are bogus is that they are preconditioned and are nothing more than profiling. All kids deserve to taste the magic of problem solving. All kids can be really good at it but of all, all kids have to be really good at it if we want to live in a good world.

Thumbs way up high for Beast Academy!