Is AAP selection really as random as this board makes it seem?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

I have a fourth grader in Advanced Math, we are waiting for the math to become more challenging.

Send them to the Russian school of mathematics.

If your child is strong in math, the school math will never become challenging. Send your kid to AoPS or Russian School for real math, and then tell them not to expect much of anything interesting from the school math.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I have a fourth grader in Advanced Math, we are waiting for the math to become more challenging.

Send them to the Russian school of mathematics.

If your child is strong in math, the school math will never become challenging. Send your kid to AoPS or Russian School for real math, and then tell them not to expect much of anything interesting from the school math.

That is what we are doing. We did AoPS last year, virtually, and DS loved it. But this year they went back to in person and it is 30 or so minutes away. We switched to RSM because it is closer. DS doesn’t like the class as much, it is more straight forward math, but it is challenging for him. He typically has one homework problem that he struggles with. We like that because it means he isn’t getting everything right away and needs to work at math. The competition program is great, closer to AoPS and there is always something he is learning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I have a fourth grader in Advanced Math, we are waiting for the math to become more challenging.

Send them to the Russian school of mathematics.

If your child is strong in math, the school math will never become challenging. Send your kid to AoPS or Russian School for real math, and then tell them not to expect much of anything interesting from the school math.

It's grade school. It's not supposed to be hard, it can be interesting with the M3 extensions and a good teacher.

Middle school will come soon enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I have a fourth grader in Advanced Math, we are waiting for the math to become more challenging.

Send them to the Russian school of mathematics.

If your child is strong in math, the school math will never become challenging. Send your kid to AoPS or Russian School for real math, and then tell them not to expect much of anything interesting from the school math.

It's grade school. It's not supposed to be hard, it can be interesting with the M3 extensions and a good teacher.

Middle school will come soon enough.

Except that it is not interesting. We are treating it as good foundational practice at school while actual learning and challenge is coming from RSM.

I don’t know if it is this year because there are enough kids struggling because of last years learning issues or if this is normal but the math work we see coming home is not interesting or challenging or advancing DS knowledge of math. His social studies and science are advancing his knowledge. I like the approach the teacher is taking to writing. He enjoys Level III pull outs. But math is just not interesting or engaging.

His Teacher stopped assigning Khan Academy units as homework because kids were struggling with it.

I don’t think my kid is gifted or a math genius but I would like him to be engaged in what he is learning and that is not happening in school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I have a fourth grader in Advanced Math, we are waiting for the math to become more challenging.

Send them to the Russian school of mathematics.

If your child is strong in math, the school math will never become challenging. Send your kid to AoPS or Russian School for real math, and then tell them not to expect much of anything interesting from the school math.

It's grade school. It's not supposed to be hard, it can be interesting with the M3 extensions and a good teacher.

Middle school will come soon enough.

Except that it is not interesting. We are treating it as good foundational practice at school while actual learning and challenge is coming from RSM.

I don’t know if it is this year because there are enough kids struggling because of last years learning issues or if this is normal but the math work we see coming home is not interesting or challenging or advancing DS knowledge of math. His social studies and science are advancing his knowledge. I like the approach the teacher is taking to writing. He enjoys Level III pull outs. But math is just not interesting or engaging.

His Teacher stopped assigning Khan Academy units as homework because kids were struggling with it.

I don’t think my kid is gifted or a math genius but I would like him to be engaged in what he is learning and that is not happening in school.

Maybe the teacher stopped because parents complained that it was inappropriate. Wth?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I have a fourth grader in Advanced Math, we are waiting for the math to become more challenging.

Send them to the Russian school of mathematics.

If your child is strong in math, the school math will never become challenging. Send your kid to AoPS or Russian School for real math, and then tell them not to expect much of anything interesting from the school math.

It's grade school. It's not supposed to be hard, it can be interesting with the M3 extensions and a good teacher.

Middle school will come soon enough.

Except that it is not interesting. We are treating it as good foundational practice at school while actual learning and challenge is coming from RSM.

I don’t know if it is this year because there are enough kids struggling because of last years learning issues or if this is normal but the math work we see coming home is not interesting or challenging or advancing DS knowledge of math. His social studies and science are advancing his knowledge. I like the approach the teacher is taking to writing. He enjoys Level III pull outs. But math is just not interesting or engaging.

His Teacher stopped assigning Khan Academy units as homework because kids were struggling with it.

I don’t think my kid is gifted or a math genius but I would like him to be engaged in what he is learning and that is not happening in school.

Maybe the teacher stopped because parents complained that it was inappropriate. Wth?

How is Khan Academy inappropriate for math homework? There are quizzes on the site that the kids can do as homework. He still has Khan on occasion but it is no longer a weekly thing. The nice thing about Khan is that it gives parents and kids an additional resource for reviewing the material. It is far better then the ST Math crap that he does for homework.