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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, you should complement. Have your child enroll in RSM or AoPS either concurrently or shortly before. That's what we did. School instruction is insufficient in multiple ways. First, students aren't doing any problem solving in school (all they do is textbook worksheets and SOL prep); second, they don't do any mathematical writing in school; third, the school curriculum is abridged for an advanced student (e.g., no complex numbers in Algebra 1, no linear programming). Fourth, school math is much less fun.

In short, if your child is gifted and interested in math then you cannot rely on the school curriculum.[/quote]

+1. This is a really thoughtful comment. Teaching to the class average is built in, that’s not necessarily wrong because this is the role of the public school, but it should be pretty obvious that the extremes of the mathematical skills distribution won’t benefit much. For a top 1% student you simply need to find alternate forms of instruction , not to prepare for the regular school class, but just to cover what is not taught. But that’s probably true for any subject.[/quote]

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