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[quote=Anonymous]Focus on her enjoyment.  She’ll learn more out of that than acceleration.  If she enjoys AMC8, give her some other middle school level math competitions (the problems often combine multiple math disciplines in one problem).  It would be more fun if she had someone to take it with and compare solutions (a friend or even a parent).  Is there a math club at her school?  Sometimes, they participate in competitive events.  If she is really into it, there are several paid math competition classes in the area that many kids enjoy.

As far as that AMC8 score, it is hard to extrapolate for a 4th grader, but 9/25 is not an exceptional score on its own, but still impressive for her age and lack of outside enrichment (that maps to ~12/25 after you add in guessing on the questions she didn’t answer).  There are 4th graders that score 18+.

If you do end up deciding to accelerate in school, I would suggest Algebra1 in 6th —&gt; Geometry in 7th is a better path than Alg in 7th —&gt; summer geometry.[/quote]

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