My oldest falls into that category also.
For math, Saxon Math, hands down. An engineer friend of mr. mm’s said it’s absolutely the best for real life applications.
We used Abeka for science, SS, and health and found them quite thorough. The history was actually pretty rigorous. If you have a real history buff on your hands, it’ll be fine, but I thought there was stuff in there that was unnecessary to know (Like who DL Moody’s songleader was).
We tried Alpha-Omega LifePacs for history one year and my daughter liked that a little better because she said it explained why things happened in history instead of just memorizing facts.
For English and reading, I think what the schools do is fine, read books and do book reports. Maybe if you could find someone who is an English major or supportive teacher, they could help you in that area.
Here’s a link for a place to get curriculum about as cheap as I’ve seen it:
thx — I’ll check those out. She is a whiz at math, science and verabl skills. Not so much a history buff, but has a photographic memory when she’s interested. In fact her older brothers used to resolve arguments by saying “Let’s go ask J___!”
rocksolidinc looks interesting.
I have a degree in computer science, and I love math.
My daughters use Saxon math in their private school, and we all agree “WE HATE SAXON MATH”.
It’s too repetitive and boring. It might be good for a kid that is poor at math, but it is way too repetitive for a gifted kid.
I don’t really have a recommendation on middle school math. My son likes his math that he uses in middle school. He’s in the advanced class and is taking Geometry. I think he likes it more because he has a good teacher and he all the kids are gifted at math and motivated to learn.