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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's another branch in North Bethesda/Rockville and an on-again/off-again branch in DC (the latter is off for now). It seems to be mostly the regular curriculum but accelerated and they have multiple levels (e.g. 5_1, 5_2 and 5_3 which is on level, accelerated and honors). They do assign regular homework, which is somewhat rote but seems to emphasize the concepts. The one downside, if you think it is a downside, is that the material hews closely to the regular school curriculum, rather than topics that are non-traditional (e.g. number theory, logic, discrete math etc.) which are well within the kids' grasp but not usually taught in schools. [/quote]

My kids have been attending RSM-Reston over the past three years. Apart from one year (for one of them), they have taken the level 3 classes. Based on that, I disagree with the above statement regarding the RSM curriculum. In fact, I like how number theory was introduced at an early stage (and in an intuitive way). [/quote]

My kid has been doing the same at North Bethesda and no, there have been no explicit number theory classes. Maybe some simple stuff like GCD and divisors but not much of modular arithmetic, Fermat's little theorem or Chinese Remainder Theorem, Euler's phi-function, Fundamental theorem of arithmetic or random stuff from Polya's "How to solve it". The local branches, unlike the Boston ones, don't set the math competition world on fire either. But it all depends on what you want out of such supplementation.[/quote]

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