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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I'd talk to your local non-magnet MS in MCPS and see how they handle kids like your son. In my experience, they tend to be very open about such things (without commitments, of course, until they know him).

Acceleration is one route, and that seems to get most of the attention on this forum. What I'd call "expansion" of knowledge, deeper and to new areas (not "enrichment" which usually means extra worksheets) is another. If your school-based offerings aren't great, you can do other stuff directed toward problem solving. Some of this is "contest math," which requires a really good understanding of Algebra (which is limited in how hard and abstract it can get) and Geometry, and then moves on to related fields such as number theory and combinatorics. This stuff is not offered in high school courses regularly, but there quite a large infrastructure (mainly national competition exams by the Math Assn of America), and in MS there is Mathcounts. (This is the AMC/AIME/USAMO series, and there are not expensive online courses that teach this stuff through Art of Problem Solving.)[/quote]

DCUMers have learned alot from the DCUMMIE poster! [/quote]

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