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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What I learned from this thread is that there are a lot of families that don't tutor--which you wouldn't know from looking at some other threads on this board. I wonder if hiring a tutor has become very popular at certain schools, and families at those schools start to feel anxious about keeping up.

One poster has commented about math major kids who are much smarter than the rest of Mcps kids and have been tutored years ahead of the current curriculum. If I understand the curriculum correctly, children in compacted math will have the opportunity to take calculus in 11th grade and another AP course in 12th. This seems pretty darn advanced to me. (MIT requires only a year of calculus for admission.) It may not be practical for MCPS to have a track for the small minority of kids who are ready for calculus in 10th grade, if that's where your kids are. Maybe you can fight for them to get in calculus  in 10th grade as an individual, without a defined track. Maybe you need to have them enroll in a math class at college while still in high school. [/quote]

I took calculus in 10th grade...by taking all my math 8th grade on through a program at a local university (I grew up elsewhere).  I suppose if your kid is ahead by that much, you could talk to your school about compacting even more than the fastest current track (to get to 10th grad calculus, I took algebra & geometry in 8th, math analysis and trig in 9th), but frankly, you'd probably need to look at outside programs.  I think it's unrealistic to expect that MCPS provide this kind of accelerated track as a regular thing.  Although my kids are pretty good at math (two in HGC), I don't know that I would accelerate them that much unless I thought they were prodigies.  They are not...and I wasn't either, which is why I burned out after taking calc in 10th!  And I probably would have failed out of my freshman calc II class in college (an Ivy) if not for a friend (Churchill grad) who really was a prodigy. [/quote]

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