My younger son, age eleven, started grade six homeschool continuing with Teaching Textbooks. This for him meant doing the last lessons in grade 6 and then starting in with grade 7.
He was frustrated as there is too much review. Over 80% of the work that is done is review of old material. There is not enough practice of new material. The daily work is graded (not just tests). Since there are about 22 problems if you get two wrong that's a B. The errors include data entry slips with the keyboard or putting in simple data entry mistakes. That son of mine loves grades and has been asking for them since Kindergarten when he learned of their existence by reading Calvin and Hobbes comics (we own all the books).
My son asked for something more rigorous.
He has switched to the free Khan Academy. He accesses the full program by logging in with a gmail account. (You can also now log in with a Facebook account.) With Khan we find that when errors are made they make you do a lot more to prove you really know it, so we feel there is sufficient practice. You move at your own pace and can move quickly or slowly depending on how you are doing with the material.
My son loves this platform and the program itself.
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