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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Other kids in the class understand the concepts moving at that speed. The problem is they but kids into AAP who are not ready for advanced math.[/quote]

No doubt some do without help, but the most likely scenario is that many kids in that AAP class already are supplementing math outside school. That might be parents who purchased workbooks, at a math center, or a tutor.

And by "supplementing" I merely mean the student gets enough outside practice to really learn the methods. I do not necessarily mean pushing ahead, though no doubt some also do that.

The car stickers at Kumon, Mathnasium, RSM, or similar tell the story. Car stickers are both from good public schools and also from good private schools.

There is a whole thread in DCUM on math supplementing. Those businesses would not be there if there were only a few students supplementing math. [/quote]

Kumon, Mathnasiasm and RSM are just more of the same stuff they get in school. AoPS (and BA) is so much more rigorous and goes deeper, so it makes sense to do it as supplement because unlike the other programs, it’s not redundant of school math. [/quote]

RSM Honors is not close to what kids are doing in school, it is all expansions and deeper dives. RSM Math Competition is very similar to AoPS. My kid did both programs. AoPS had kids in the class who could not handle the work. The teacher had to work with them after class, he didn’t have that issue at RSM, probably because the classes are leveled so that kids are working at a level that is appropriate, AoPS has kids in it whose parents seem to think they are stronger at math then they are.[/quote]

I can see that. We do AoPS at home - we read the comic books and do the online assignments, and it's really easy to tell exactly what your kid understands because you get parent reports. If they don't get a 3-star on an assignment, you can choose to have them redo the assignment until they do.  I quite enjoy doing BA with my youngest, so I don't see any value in wasting time commuting to a center.  We might enroll her in one of their online classes if she starts getting hung up at a higher level, but so far it's been easy to just use their system.  Once they graduate from BA and move on to Alcumus, you get a more adaptive learning approach.  But so far, there hasn't been anything in BA that I see value in skipping.  If a particular lesson is easy, and a couple have been, then she can just fly through that lesson in a couple of minutes and move on.  But it all builds such a deep foundation in math, and it doesn't rush kids ahead so they are totally bored in school.  [/quote]

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