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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Having worked in the the math center industry, I highly recommend just getting a private tutor for a very smart mathematically inclined child, or doing the enrichment at home yourself with carefully curated materials.

AOPS is probably the only company I would recommend, based on it catering to the mathematically gifted crowd and the founders having an elite math contest background. As far as I have seen, the other companies are not really geared toward enrichment. Does your child's school have a Gifted and Talent program coordinator? That person is also a good resource even if your kid is not identified as gifted.[/quote]

why not RSM? They seem to have a good system for gifted math kids and has good results - maybe not at the IMO level, but for Mathcounts, etc...  those kids at IMO levels are basically done with these courses by the time they enter high school anyways.[/quote]

Not PP but RSM is not geared towards the gifted crowd or math advanced kids.  It’s not geared towards enrichment, looking at math in different ways, approaching math in different ways.

From what I understand RSM focus is on supporting what the kids are learning in school.  The kids above already know that material and need a deeper dive and manipulating things.   I think the math competition class at RSM might be more similar to AOPS in general but not the general 3 level courses.

The gifted kids by far go to AOPS and that community, not RSM.

Lastly, RSM is weighed down by trying to focus on all kids at all levels.  Not so with AOPS.  There is only 1 level and that is a high level.  Either you can hack it or you can’t.  Also the pace of their courses are fast.  They will introduce a topic briefly and then go right into complex and challenging problems.  They expect the kids to get it, process it fast, and go right to tackling difficult problems.

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