He finished the fourth grade math book in October. She reads three years ahead and is bored out of her mind by the "grade-level" reading list. The problem with an advanced kid is rarely ability. It is that every curriculum is built around a grade, and the grade is wrong.
Each of these rests on learning science that has been replicated for decades. The studies, in plain language, are on the research page.
Mastery learning, where students advance by demonstrated mastery rather than seat time, averages around half a standard deviation of gain across more than a hundred evaluations. For an advanced student the mechanism matters most in reverse: nothing holds them at a rung they have already cleared.
An advanced kid's profile is usually uneven: three years ahead in one subject, on grade in another, with an odd gap somewhere nobody noticed. A placement that finds the edge of what they know, subject by subject, beats a grade label every time.
Gifted students ask the questions school never gets to. A curriculum that can turn "how do circuits work" into a sequenced course, with the same rigor as any core subject, turns curiosity into the work instead of a distraction from it.
The Elementary, Middle, and High filters narrow the list of skills you browse. They say nothing about the student. Add Pre-Algebra to a fifth grader who is ready, and the path opens at the rung a seventh grader would start on, with the typical grade level printed on every rung so you can see it.
Skills, paths, and curriculum →
The Starting Point Check is an adaptive, eighteen-question activity the student does once per subject. It climbs until it finds the edge of what they know, sets the starting unit there, and marks everything below it Tested Out. Or walk the path yourself and Mark mastered any unit you know they have.
The Starting Point Check →
Primer scales from learning what a map is to working through the limit definition of a derivative. The same five-step lesson, the same exit ticket, the same mastery tracking, whether the student is six or sixteen. Six focus areas, K through 12, add or drop a skill any time.
How a skill becomes a ladder of lessons →
Type what they want to learn, in their words, and Primer builds a sequenced path. Theo got fifteen units on how circuits work. Maya got eighteen on becoming a horse veterinarian. Each runs like any other skill, with full lessons and exit tickets, alongside the core subjects rather than instead of them.
You decide what they study →
Invite your student to their own sign-in. On their portal they see their path, launch their lessons, and, if you allow it, use Add a Topic to put their own questions on the curriculum. How much say they get is a setting you control.
Inviting a student to their own portal →
Progress breaks down to the individual skill, with a mastery number weighted toward recent work, a confidence number that says how much evidence is behind it, and every exit ticket question on record. Recurring Misconceptions shows the one kind of mistake an advanced student keeps making, which is usually the most useful thing to know about them.
Understanding your student's progress →Yes. The grade band filter picks the list of skills you browse, not the student. Add any skill from any band, and the path opens at the rung its typical grade would start on. The lesson is still written around your student's interests and reading level.
From exit tickets, the short scored check at the end of every lesson. Mastery is a moving average weighted toward recent work, and Primer does not call a skill mastered until three consistent exit tickets say so. You can also mark any unit mastered by hand.
Not if you place them. Offer the Starting Point Check on each subject or pick the starting unit yourself, and tested-out units are skipped. If the first lessons at a new starting point are too hard, Primer moves the start back and tells you; if they are too easy, mark the units mastered and move on.
It goes through the same machinery: a sequenced path you can read and edit, full five-step lessons, read-aloud, a video, and an exit ticket. It is a course, not a credential; for a transcript line, use the standards-aligned subjects and let the custom path be the reason they show up.
One free lesson, no account: their name, one thing they love, and one topic. Or start a free trial and let them find their starting spot.