AOPS introduction to algebra book

[Anonymous]

We are doing introduction to algebra book at home. After a while (maybe 4 months), we are still in the first 1/4-1/3. Is this book designed to be done in one year if you are taking in-person AOPS class? Or, shorter?

[Anonymous]

For the online school, it's a 32 week long course. In person, the full school year covers both the intro to Algebra book and the Intro to Counting and Probability book.

[Anonymous]

Cam someone compare aops in vienna to the online courses? is the homework part the same?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For the online school, it's a 32 week long course. In person, the full school year covers both the intro to Algebra book and the Intro to Counting and Probability book.

Exactly, they cover something like 11 chapters in 16 weeks so roughly 1.5 chapters per week.

[Anonymous]

I'm OP. Thank you for the inputs. It's good to know that our pace is slower than those using AOPS online/in-person.

DC insists on doing all questions, so we cannot speed up (I wish we could).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cam someone compare aops in vienna to the online courses? is the homework part the same?

My kids only took the online class but I'd imagine the weekly problem sets are the same. They typically have around a dozen problems where the last 4 are challenge problems. My child that took a couple these classes usually spent about an hour each week to do 75% (sometimes more or less) but always got well within the green. They did well on the final usually high-green or low-blue so it seemed to work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cam someone compare aops in vienna to the online courses? is the homework part the same?

My kids only took the online class but I'd imagine the weekly problem sets are the same. They typically have around a dozen problems where the last 4 are challenge problems. My child that took a couple these classes usually spent about an hour each week to do 75% (sometimes more or less) but always got well within the green. They did well on the final usually high-green or low-blue so it seemed to work.

you mean online online not the vienna online academy

[Anonymous]

My kids have done both the Vienna in person academy and the text based online courses. Both seem to use the same or similar homework sets. Both seem to have a similar weekly pacing. The in person classes have several exams, whereas online ones do not. Neither the in person nor online classes. None of the homework sets are equivalent or even comparable to solving every single problem in the textbook.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cam someone compare aops in vienna to the online courses? is the homework part the same?

My kids only took the online class but I'd imagine the weekly problem sets are the same. They typically have around a dozen problems where the last 4 are challenge problems. My child that took a couple these classes usually spent about an hour each week to do 75% (sometimes more or less) but always got well within the green. They did well on the final usually high-green or low-blue so it seemed to work.

you mean online online not the vienna online academy

Yes, my kids have never been to an in-person center. We find online classes more convenient.

[Anonymous]

^^ sorry I'm not the PP you were responding to....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cam someone compare aops in vienna to the online courses? is the homework part the same?

My kids only took the online class but I'd imagine the weekly problem sets are the same. They typically have around a dozen problems where the last 4 are challenge problems. My child that took a couple these classes usually spent about an hour each week to do 75% (sometimes more or less) but always got well within the green. They did well on the final usually high-green or low-blue so it seemed to work.

^^ I'm this poster.

My kids didn't use the AoPS online classes (text chat) but the ones over video conferencing through the AoPS Virtual Academy.

I have no experience with the in-person classes but imagine they're comparable to the virtual Academy. The problem sets and syllabus are similar. I'm specifically talking about these classes:
https://virtual.aopsacademy.org/#course-offerings

The AoPS Online (text) classes are probably also great for their price point but probably better suited to older students.

For AoPS 7th Grade Contest Math (Algebra 1 & 2) through the virtual academy. Each course is 16 weeks and covers 11 chapters of the AoPS Algebra book. My kid did an hour of homework each week which was sufficient to master the material, but you could easily spend more if you were inclined.

[Anonymous]

Why are you doing this you people are sick

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are you doing this you people are sick

We value education and publics are too dumbed down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are you doing this you people are sick

We value education and publics are too dumbed down.

math acceleration serves no purpose and only makes the public school experience more complicated for everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are you doing this you people are sick

We value education and publics are too dumbed down.

math acceleration serves no purpose and only makes the public school experience more complicated for everyone.

For the most part, AoPS doesn’t accelerate. They provide the deeper math that builds strong foundations.