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[quote=Anonymous]My mathy kid is grown now, so I don’t know what the current version of compacted math is like.  Moreover, from my general experience, I suspect it varies significantly due to teacher differences.

Whether or not you decide to pursue compacted math, my advice is to encourage your son’s interest in math, but to aim for enrichment, rather than acceleration.  This might look like logic puzzles, Problems of the Week, tooics that aren’t covered in the standard curriculum, etc.,  not to mention real-life applications.  I wrote a lengthy post in May about supplementing math for a 3rd grader, and since I’ve had problems with broken links when I try to copy posts, I’ll just link to the previous thread.
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1203214.page

Programming is also great for kids who like math.  The child from the other thread was already doing Python, but I generally recommend Scratch for beginners. Scratch was designed by MIT to teach kids how to program and is free.
https://scratch.mit.edu/parents
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