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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love AoPS. Their books are great, but once you get to the intermediate level the pacing seems off. They could stand to spend more time on some concepts that they gloss over. Now maybe it's fine if your kid happens to be that statistically rare kid that will do AIME at 13 or spends 6-8 hours a week reading math textbook each week. I don't feel it's sufficient even for very bright students at a higher level.[/quote]
I have one of those kids who first took AIME at age 11 and who also went through the Intermediate series.  I don't think there's a problem with the books per se, but instead there's a problem with the way people approach them.  Ideally, a kid would either have already finished the same class level in school, and then be using the AoPS text to broaden understanding, or the kid would be supplementing heavily with Alcumus or some other resource.  While AoPS gave my kid a great understanding of how to prove and apply things like law of cosines or double angle formulas, he also needed the much more basic problems in his school math classes to get enough practice.  
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