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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]
Have you seen the size of their Intermediate Algebra book? If it was any bigger, it wouldn't physically fit in a backpack!

There are way more than enough problems in the AoPS textbooks, to the point where it would be unreasonable (and likely impossible) for a child to be able to do every problem. Now if you are complaining about not enough basic drill problems, maybe that is true. Although if you take a look at the end of chapter Review problems (not the Challenge problems that follow them), there are plenty of problems there that should feel straightforward, or semi-straighforward.[/quote]

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