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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m sorry, but you don’t seem to have a good grasp of the strengths and weaknesses of most AAP ES students.

While there could be somewhere some who are failing, I haven’t met parents of any failing AAP students just yet. No one I talked with feels there is a need for supplementing either.

Math enrichment at our school implies learning math outside of the school altogether and often in an environment that is far more demanding and comprehensive than the AAP school math itself. These are the kids that go to regional and international competitions. The stronger the group of the students, the more likely is your “exclusively-learning-at-school” kid to “struggle - as compared to the rest of the class” (as in not get 100%, or get a 3 instead of a 4) when teacher bypasses instruction simply because majority of students learned the topic somewhere else.

By the time Middle School comes, the knowledge gap becomes an obstacle to take higher level math courses. And this is not because your kid did not pay attention, but because they were expected to learn many concepts outside of the school and their parents thought they can just rely on the school.

As a matter of fact, I would argue that if you are not doing any enrichment, you shouldn’t do AAP math at all because they are flying over some important math concepts that are covered at a better pace in GenEd. By the time your kid reaches Middle School they will have to go back to the same level of math courses as kids who did not attend AAP program at all. But, you do you. [/quote]

This is truly nuts.  As someone else posted, this isn't rocket science.  It's 3rd 4th, 6th grade math.  You "AOPS" "math competition" posters need to get over yourselves.  And consider complaining about the lousy instruction from your DC's teachers.[/quote]

I am not complaining. Math at school reinforces fundamental skills for DS. The math class at RSM dives into the fundamentals and builds on them nicely. It is challenging and stretches DS.  The math competition class at RSM is what DS loves. It is where he learns new material and gets to discuss how he approaches math with other kids and the teacher. It is the math that is challenging and fun. He loves the competitions. It all works together. He is at a school where only a few kids attend AoPS or RSM. No one is flying through the math. But he loves math and asks to do the extra math.

I know that the 6th grade last SOL had some pass advances and no one in his class failed the SOL. DS doesn’t talk about videos being shown and immediate quizzes or anything like that. 
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