What are your recommended math & verbal programs OUTSIDE school, e.g., Russian Math School

[Anonymous]

What are your recommended math & verbal programs OUTSIDE school, e.g., Russian Math School? Goal is to help my rising 5th grader who has a great knack for math and verbal without any home support to get more comfortable, sooner, with algebra etc, using time outside school. Perhaps this will mean she's AAP and perhaps not - either is OK. At least I gave her a shot at challenging instruction. We can see how it goes with her confidence -- if she hates it, we can stop.


I think courses may be too much for her during the school year as she is in sports, music, sewing, but I definitely want to send my kids to a math school during the summer -- why not!

Appreciate your recs. We are in Arlington.

[Anonymous]

RSM has summer math programs that you can look into. We have not done them. DS has done the grade level math classes and math competition class through RSM. He enjoys them but he does them during the school year.

[Anonymous]

Both Russian School of Math + AOPs are solid for extra math. We personally prefer the AOPs curriculum.

[Anonymous]

RIP Childhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:RIP Childhood.

Some kids love sports, some kids love math. Mine loves math. He chose to take RSM math classes. He asked to test for the Math Competition Program. He chose to participate in his schools math club. He chose to participate on a different math team. He loves doing it. He probably spends less time on math then the kid playing a travel sports spends on their sport.

Know your kid and meet their individual needs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Both Russian School of Math + AOPs are solid for extra math. We personally prefer the AOPs curriculum.

Mine prefers RSM. He doesn’t like the online discussion classes nearly as much as the in person classes. He didn’t want to do the books. He likes the interaction. The Math Competition Program is amazing and closer to what AoPS offers as its regular class.

Honestly, I doubt most of the people on this board have experience with RSMs math competition program. They have been sold on the idea that Beast Academy is the best program. It is great but there are other options that are pretty amazing as well.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:RIP Childhood.

Some kids love sports, some kids love math. Mine loves math. He chose to take RSM math classes. He asked to test for the Math Competition Program. He chose to participate in his schools math club. He chose to participate on a different math team. He loves doing it. He probably spends less time on math then the kid playing a travel sports spends on their sport.

Know your kid and meet their individual needs.

Sure. But that doesn't sound like the kid/situation that OP described.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:RIP Childhood.

Some kids love sports, some kids love math. Mine loves math. He chose to take RSM math classes. He asked to test for the Math Competition Program. He chose to participate in his schools math club. He chose to participate on a different math team. He loves doing it. He probably spends less time on math then the kid playing a travel sports spends on their sport.

Know your kid and meet their individual needs.

Sure. But that doesn't sound like the kid/situation that OP described.

For all we know, the OP asked their kid and their kid is fine with the idea or likes the idea. DS is going to be working with a writing tutor this summer. Writing is not a strength of his, he knows this as well as we do. We are talking 6 sessions, two a week in the weeks that he doesn't have camp or a vacation. I think the summer RSM classes are 2 weeks long and a few hours each day. It doesn't take up the whole day.

But I wouldn't do it if the kid wasn't interested.

I am a bit confused why an Arlington parent would be mentioning AAP, that is an FCPS program, and the family would know if the kid was in it because the program starts in 3rd grade.

[Anonymous]

My rising 6th grader wanted to do math over summer to prep for pre-algebra. New school would be hard enough to adjust to. So he wanted to see the math. We did Khan Academy.

The following summer he wanted to do the same.

Summers are so long and a great time to see the work for the school year ahead.

And play.

And swim.

And be with friends.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:RIP Childhood.

Some kids love sports, some kids love math. Mine loves math. He chose to take RSM math classes. He asked to test for the Math Competition Program. He chose to participate in his schools math club. He chose to participate on a different math team. He loves doing it. He probably spends less time on math then the kid playing a travel sports spends on their sport.

Know your kid and meet their individual needs.

Sure. But that doesn't sound like the kid/situation that OP described.

For all we know, the OP asked their kid and their kid is fine with the idea or likes the idea. DS is going to be working with a writing tutor this summer. Writing is not a strength of his, he knows this as well as we do. We are talking 6 sessions, two a week in the weeks that he doesn't have camp or a vacation. I think the summer RSM classes are 2 weeks long and a few hours each day. It doesn't take up the whole day.

But I wouldn't do it if the kid wasn't interested.

I am a bit confused why an Arlington parent would be mentioning AAP, that is an FCPS program, and the family would know if the kid was in it because the program starts in 3rd grade.

How did you go about finding the writing tutor?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:RIP Childhood.

Some kids love sports, some kids love math. Mine loves math. He chose to take RSM math classes. He asked to test for the Math Competition Program. He chose to participate in his schools math club. He chose to participate on a different math team. He loves doing it. He probably spends less time on math then the kid playing a travel sports spends on their sport.

Know your kid and meet their individual needs.

Sure. But that doesn't sound like the kid/situation that OP described.

For all we know, the OP asked their kid and their kid is fine with the idea or likes the idea. DS is going to be working with a writing tutor this summer. Writing is not a strength of his, he knows this as well as we do. We are talking 6 sessions, two a week in the weeks that he doesn't have camp or a vacation. I think the summer RSM classes are 2 weeks long and a few hours each day. It doesn't take up the whole day.

But I wouldn't do it if the kid wasn't interested.

I am a bit confused why an Arlington parent would be mentioning AAP, that is an FCPS program, and the family would know if the kid was in it because the program starts in 3rd grade.

How did you go about finding the writing tutor?

We have a friend who is a teacher, she put us in touch with a friend of her who tutors. You can ask your school if they have a list of tutors.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:RIP Childhood.

Some kids love sports, some kids love math. Mine loves math. He chose to take RSM math classes. He asked to test for the Math Competition Program. He chose to participate in his schools math club. He chose to participate on a different math team. He loves doing it. He probably spends less time on math then the kid playing a travel sports spends on their sport.

Know your kid and meet their individual needs.

I am a bit confused why an Arlington parent would be mentioning AAP, that is an FCPS program, and the family would know if the kid was in it because the program starts in 3rd grade.

Well, I'm possibly moving from Arlington to Fairfax this summer, but that's not why I posted here. Being from Arlington, I just read it as a concept (advanced academics) not as a whole program for FCPS. I needed recs on math courses to help with early practice.

I think they can manage the challenge of a summer or year-round weekly math course (I want to review responses and pick a shorter class, too, thank you!). I would remove them from the course if they felt frustrated, but I've worked with them a bit -- I think they will be fine.

Otherwise, My kids are leisure kids/they're fine: watch sooo much YouTube, play for hours at the park, go to Barnes and Noble to buy useless toys sooo much. I clean up after them all day. Anyone else?

Thanks for suggestions!

[Anonymous]

Looking to get feedback on Indian Mathematics and reviews on enrichment centers that teach it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_mathematics

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looking to get feedback on Indian Mathematics and reviews on enrichment centers that teach it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_mathematics

I dont think there is any modern version of this. This is all subsumed under regular mathematics anyone studies.