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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you so much for the information!. Appreciate the quick response. May I know if the AAP kids will score similar ie will be in late 4th grade or they may be ahead of their grade too ?. DD is new to AAP just want to know the info trying to understand .[/quote]

Many of them do, maybe more advanced.  Everyone in AAP class has some kind of math enrichment outside school.  Frankly most of them can easily do one grade above. [/quote]

Yeah, this is not true. Plenty of kids in AAP are not doing any type of enrichment. If you are at a Center that is majority Asia you are more likely to find families sending kids to enrichment. If you are at a school with fewer Asian kids you will find fewer kids participating in enrichment. DS is white and does participate in enrichment, he takes math competition classes, and 75% of his class is Asian, the remainder is mainly Eastern European. His schools math counts team is pretty much the same way. Enrichment and emphasis on math is very much a cultural thing that most Western European white families don't participate in. Tutoring or using something like RSM/Kumon/Mathnasium to fill in gaps or catch up is more likely for Western European white families.

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Are RSM/Kumon/Mathnasium not considered enrichment?  I am so confused.  What kind of OTHER enrichment do you think Asian/Eastern Europeans student go?  There must be others but RSM/Kumon/Mathnasium have plenty of non-western european students.

It's not about AAP being superior.  Even without AAP many families would have kids study ahead.  I was just describing our AAP class, I've seen child's classmates in enrichment classes, kids show off advance match subjects to each other etc (maybe they learnt from their older sibling).  I have no statistic proving "every student" was enriching, I wasn't writing a term paper but an anonymous post, but plenty of them do.[/quote]

The actual hard data on AAP shows that AAP kids are slightly advanced in math and that's about it. And it's really not hard to be slightly advanced compared to Virginia's math sequence. It takes no outside enrichment for your average hard-working or slightly bright kid.[/quote]

A good number of kids receive enrichment/supplement for a variety of reasons. There are schools were there is a stronger culture of enrichment then others. My kids ES had very little enrichment, we knew of 3 kids out of 90 doing outside math for enrichment and a larger number working with tutors to stay on grade level. We had friends who told us their kids ES had half the kids in AoPS or RSM.

There are schools where there is more peer pressure to take extra classes than others. DS has already had teachers and peers assume he is taking Geometry this summer because that is what the kids at his school do. It is a totally different environment then his ES where most of classmates choose 7th H over Algebra 1 in 7th grade because acceleration is not a big deal to folks.[/quote]

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