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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds interesting, but also sounds like you work for them. I can see from their marketing materials they are trying to compete with AOPS by portraying AOPS as just for contest problems. But that isn't even true. AOPS also offers regular middle school and high school math courses, including calculus. EMF/Imacs doesn't offer calc.

Unfortunately, EMF/Imacs hs no printed materials to purchase (e.g. a textbook to be used as a reference) and nothing from the course can be downloaded to work offline. All in all, I don't see why parents who are satisfied with AOPS, RSM, or their current school should switch to this.[/quote]

The main reason to switch, or do both, would be to focus more on the formal/abstract math theory and less on problem-solving.
AoPS approach is, by their own documentarion, more informal, preferring "common sense"  arguments to axiomatic presentation and formal logic proofs.

Also, at least at the into level, EMF has a more "fun and games" approach  to presenting the material (clock math, secret codes, string game, math machines, magic peanuts for negative numbers), instead of raw algebra/geometry problems and solutions.

I have  Rosen's classic 1000 page Discrete Math book that covers a lot of this, and my kid has browsed it, but it's pretty dry presentation for a tween. [/quote]

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