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I have a doctorate in hard math.  Yes, I have seen AOPS.  Not impressed.  It is all quick tricks with no depth.  If you're impressed then I am sure that is saying something.  I don't know what, but it is saying something.  Glad your kids are enjoying the experience.[/quote]

There's no way you've actually looked at the non-contest books.  How does deriving proofs equal a quick trick?  Would you consider proving L'agrange's theorem unnecessary or just its use in problem solving?[/quote]

I'm confused, too.  My kid is taking their Geometry class, and he has to submit proofs every second week.  The proofs are then reviewed by a person who gives a very detailed writeup on how well the proof was constructed, where your child did hit the mark, and where he or she didn't.  When my kid took Algebra last year, they covered all of the usual Algebra topics, but they also worked through several proofs of the Pythagorean theorem, they worked through precisely why and how the quadratic formula works, and so on.  [/quote]

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