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[quote=Anonymous]My kid loves math, always has, and seems to have an intuitive grasp of concpts. He picks up new mathmatical concepts pretty quickly. He loves math competitions and will sit down and do math problems for fun. Is he a prodigy? No. Does he like math and seem to be good at math? Yes. Would he be fine at school without RSM and competition class? Yes. He attends RSM because he likes the challenge and to be with other kids who like math.

Does he work hard at it? It depends on how you define working hard. He chooses to take extra classes because he enjoys the subject. Those classes push him but he doesn't get stressed out by them or seem to need much extra time to understand the material. I would say he is working hard only because he is putting in extra time and chooses to do the extra work. I don't think the work is hard for him.

He is not in Advanced Math because he does the extra work, he started those classes after being accepted into LIV. I don't think his math path would be any different if he had never started at RSM or doing math competitions. I do think his abilities would be far less developed without the classes and I am not sure he would have the same love of math because math at school is less engaging. THe competition piece is what he engages with. The school work and regular RSM is the work he has to do in order to be able to play with math, something that he understands.

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