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[quote=Anonymous]1. Don't make the mistake of thinking that slower pathways make for a better foundation. There's only so much the teacher can do with the curriculum. Kids either get it or they don't. Your kid, if she's not in the right level, will just be terribly bored instead of learning better.

2. There are off-ramps exactly as PP described them.

3. Or... your kid can just go as far as she can go. My kid was in compacted math, tested in algebra 1 in 6th, and is now in AP Calc BC in 10th. She's not a math whiz kid, but she gets stuff pretty quickly. Her high school offers post-AP math: multivariable calculus, and duel enrollment courses. Not all high schools offer the same advanced courses, BTW. We know a kid who went to UMD for Calculus 3 in 12th grade, because he wanted to major in engineering in college.

4. I wanted to push back on some of the stuff posters have written. Neither of my kids "love" math. They're fine with it. My other kid has diagnosed ADHD and low processing speed, and still followed a math track ending with AP Calc BC in 12th grade. This really isn't the incredibly lofty goal people make it out to be!

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