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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If zoned for Yorktown, then maybe try for TJ with Yorktown as the backup. Supplement outside school if desired - Kumon, RSM, or Mathnasium.

At least, GDS and StA/NCS and Potomac all have several very advanced math classes in their official curriculum, but those are not offered every year. Only offered if several students at a given school are both interested in taking the course and also are well-prepared.

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Actually, Potomac offers as advanced classes as needed in math and will even do one on one classes w/ just one student and a teacher. My children have also found that the kids who were top in math in public struggled a bit in math at potomac even though on paper the classes were not at as high a level. The way you are tested is different (you have to do things multiple ways, think outside of the box, etc.). Theyve had friends who struggled b/c they could no longer get by on memorization and essentially regurgitating problems the way they learn them. I'm not explaining it correctly, but basically don't assume that math at a private is a lower level b/c of the name of the class.[/quote]

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