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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've taught the course before. Expect to spend 6-8 hours a day on it, and still feel rushed through the material. It is crammed. Your mastery of it will never be as high as if you took it over a year. I don't encourage my students to do it.

That said, if you are going to accelerate any course, geometry is really the only possibility.[/quote]

Wow!  Spending 6-8 hrs a day on math(geometry) sounds incredibly awful.  This cannot be a good idea.  It makes me sad that anyone would do this.... even if your kid likes math, or loves math... 6-8 hrs day in and day out.... why put a kid in such a grind?[/quote]

My students who have done it generally do it to "catch up" to siblings/peers who took geometry in 8th grade.  I teach in a low income school where a large portion of my students are at home watching netflix or taking care of siblings all summer, so it's not like they're missing out on vacations and camps.  For a select few, it's a beneficial way to spend their summer.  For most of them, I try to convince them to do something else academic but more flexible.[/quote]

Since they come from low income families, I hope they get a waiver from the $$ it costs to take a summer class. [/quote]

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