CTY for math

[Anonymous]

My dd is in 4th grade at a good private. Not the best but well respected. She was just accepted into CTY for math. Is there a private school that I should be looking at that can better meet her needs? I want her challenged and engaged. Any other cty families on this board? I also have a 1st grade son, so I am not looking at single sex.

[Anonymous]

Unless your dd is begging for more math or way beyond what her current private can offer, I wouldn't base any major decisions on it. I have a ds at an independent school who qualified for CTY math and the CTY award ceremony while at a public ES in the AAP program. We've had much better luck getting appropriate differentiation at the independent school than we ever did in AAP.
Does your current school differentiate or is everything done together as a group?

[Anonymous]

My DC in Norwood, also just qualified for all CTY classes, math over 90th percentile. Not planning to move her to another private. DC well challenged in Norwood.

[Anonymous]

Dd is at norwood as well. I don't know what cty is, but she is not challenged in math.

[Anonymous]

My 16 DS has been in CTY for both math and humanities for years. He's in high school but taking math and a few other things at the local university s he splits his day between his private Catholic high school and the university. I would say place your child in a school that is a good fit for their personality and your family. CTY will provide plenty of challenge, but it would be helpful if you wanted to talk to the teacher and administration at your current school (if you love it) and see if they will let her go to the library to do CTY during math period. That's what worked for my DS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 16 DS has been in CTY for both math and humanities for years. He's in high school but taking math and a few other things at the local university s he splits his day between his private Catholic high school and the university. I would say place your child in a school that is a good fit for their personality and your family. CTY will provide plenty of challenge, but it would be helpful if you wanted to talk to the teacher and administration at your current school (if you love it) and see if they will let her go to the library to do CTY during math period. That's what worked for my DS

It's pretty silly to pay tuition at an independent school and then pay more for an overpriced and mediocre online math course. CTY is a big money making machine.

[Anonymous]

Our 3rd gr DC took math at CTY and loved it. It is not "accelerated" math but is more in depth with a focus on interesting math topics. They have general problem solving strategies for children coming out of 2nd/3rd grade. Geometry for children coming out of 3rd/4th grade. They ask challenging questions and have a great cohort of kids that also love math and are up for the challenge.

Our DC is not challenged at our current private in math. Generally following Common Core - but with more depth added for top group. Doesn't hate class but says it is not "hard" ( and wishes it were). Unfortunately, I don't see much different at other privates for lower school.

[Anonymous]

PP - are you talking about the online course or the summer camps?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 16 DS has been in CTY for both math and humanities for years. He's in high school but taking math and a few other things at the local university s he splits his day between his private Catholic high school and the university. I would say place your child in a school that is a good fit for their personality and your family. CTY will provide plenty of challenge, but it would be helpful if you wanted to talk to the teacher and administration at your current school (if you love it) and see if they will let her go to the library to do CTY during math period. That's what worked for my DS

It's pretty silly to pay tuition at an independent school and then pay more for an overpriced and mediocre online math course. CTY is a big money making machine.

I'm sorry your kid didn't make the CTY cutoff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP - are you talking about the online course or the summer camps?

I have the 16yo... he has participated in both. This summer he's not doing CTY camp for the first time in quite a while. He's attending state HOBY and the international HOBY in Chicago instead.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 16 DS has been in CTY for both math and humanities for years. He's in high school but taking math and a few other things at the local university s he splits his day between his private Catholic high school and the university. I would say place your child in a school that is a good fit for their personality and your family. CTY will provide plenty of challenge, but it would be helpful if you wanted to talk to the teacher and administration at your current school (if you love it) and see if they will let her go to the library to do CTY during math period. That's what worked for my DS

It's pretty silly to pay tuition at an independent school and then pay more for an overpriced and mediocre online math course. CTY is a big money making machine.

I'm sorry your kid didn't make the CTY cutoff.

You're friendly

My ds did qualify and was invited to the award ceremony. The CTY math program is not any better than self study or other online math programs (3 months of using their math software is over $700), and their summer programs are very expensive and not nearly as beneficial as other university based summer programs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP - are you talking about the online course or the summer camps?

22:25 here - I was talking about summer camps. I have not looked into any online courses via CTY

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 16 DS has been in CTY for both math and humanities for years. He's in high school but taking math and a few other things at the local university s he splits his day between his private Catholic high school and the university. I would say place your child in a school that is a good fit for their personality and your family. CTY will provide plenty of challenge, but it would be helpful if you wanted to talk to the teacher and administration at your current school (if you love it) and see if they will let her go to the library to do CTY during math period. That's what worked for my DS

It's pretty silly to pay tuition at an independent school and then pay more for an overpriced and mediocre online math course. CTY is a big money making machine.

I'm sorry your kid didn't make the CTY cutoff.

You're friendly

My ds did qualify and was invited to the award ceremony. The CTY math program is not any better than self study or other online math programs (3 months of using their math software is over $700), and their summer programs are very expensive and not nearly as beneficial as other university based summer programs.

So instead of snarking on everyone, which is useless, why don't you actually give OP some useful review, pros/cons and links to programs that you feel are superior.

[Anonymous]

22:25 again - our child loved CTY math camp - it is definitely expensive but given DC's love of math and love of the camp, we thought it was great and will continue to go there. We were not doing it to "get ahead" but as a way to help keep his love of math alive. So, unlike PP, we found it beneficial. Maybe when our child gets older "university based programs" will win out - but for a young child - this was great. It is also really well run.

DC was also invited to the ceremony - we did not attend and did not mention it to DC.

[Anonymous]

New poster. A friend just got high honors for math. What does that actually mean?