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Beast Academy is Art of Problem Solving's curriculum for grades one through five. Textbooks are in a comic / storybook format (about a school for monsters) and episodes introduce concepts that are then practiced in the workbook.
Despite the playful presentation, Art of Problem Solving is a rigorous curriculum (often used to prepare for math competitions) whose approach focuses on understanding underlying concepts, rather than memorizing mechanics.
Beast Academy also offers an interactive online platform, beastacademy.com/online, which provides online instruction, additional practice in a gamelike format, and the option to enroll in live instructor-led classes. This is not required to complete the course, but is helpful if you would like to incorporate more practice into the curriculum.
The full set may be purchased at the Beast Academy website, beastacademy.com/books/level-5, or on Amazon at the link above. The cost is usually about the same for either option.
Feel free to adjust the pacing to suit the student. There's no rush: students who complete one Beast Academy level per year starting in first grade will be ready to start Prealgebra in sixth grade; otherwise they would start Prealgebra in seventh or eighth grade, as is traditional. If you follow the pacing suggested in the Nautilus Homeschool default schedule, the four volumes of Level 4 can be completed in 51 weeks.