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[quote=pettifogger][quote=Anonymous]DC, an 8th grader now will be taking geometry in summer. His friends are discouraging him as its very intense. DC is doing Khan academy these day and near to completion. Will that help the summer geometry. The worst scenario, if DC drops it after 2 weeks of start of the course then what will DC lose in long run. Will DC will be able to take AP physics later? [/quote]
You know your child best. If he is really motivated and wants to accelerate so as to skip it during the school year, he should try it in the summer. If he is learning geometry from another source such as KA on his own currently, that would certainly help. However, be aware that while KA explains the concepts well in the videos, I'm not familiar whether they provide enough practice problems for him to work through. Maybe others can chime in whether KA has systematically developed problem sets in addition to their flagship videos.

In general, introducing concepts with videos is a good initial step (and I believe KA does a pretty good job in the videos), but the bulk of the learning in math is done by trying to solve problems using the concepts just learned. If he is not solving geometry problems along with watching videos, it's unclear if he is learning/retaining much.[/quote]

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