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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Both programs use online homework portals.

AoPS focuses on advance math only, your child needs to pick up concepts quickly. It encourages more creation use of math. RSM has three levels, the honors track is most similar to AoPS in terms of pacing but it is more traditional math and less creative. RSMs competition program is more similar to AoPS.

DS did the grade level program at RSM  and the math competition until 6th grade. Now, as an 8th grader, he only cries the math competition program. He didn’t need the algebra or geometry class.

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We did RSM but in 3rd grade it's just entering answers online. The actual work is in the workbook. I have DS give me his completed workbook work and I enter it on the portal. I don't know when this changes because it does seem like the older kids do more work on the portal. I didn't know you were allowed to be in the competition class without also being enrolled in the grade based class. I was told RSM time commitment goes way up as the child gets older. In middle school you have to take algebra and geometry? Or some other combo of two sections at once.[/quote]

The regular classes give paper workbooks and you enter the answers online. The online classes the kids do the work, enter the answers, and upload their written work for the teacher to review.

RSMs suggested path is a 1 hour geometry course in 6th and 7th grade and then the regular geometry course in 8th grade. We dropped the grade level math class in 7th grade, so DS did not take Algebra and we did not do Geometry in 6th grade. DS did the math competition class and 6th grade class as a 6th grader. He found the 6th grade class boring and the school would not move him into the Algebra class. We dropped the regular math class then and have only done the math competition classes. Those classes move at a faster pace and introduce algebra, geometry, probability, number theory and other concepts. It is much more interesting and fast paced then the regular classes.[/quote]

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