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[quote=Anonymous]This is an interesting question.  To me, I think it makes sense to follow the child's ability and interest.  (BS in Engineering, so I have that perspective, but I am not an educator or versed in child development, so many grains of salt).  I do see the argument of moving too quickly such that by the time college rolls around, should STEM be of interest, they may end up taking some classes again and not really be 'advantaged'.  However, if they are truly immersed in math and reinforcing their learning in other ways, I would think it would be fine.

Been quite a while for me, but my recollection in my undergrad days was there was a constant reinforcement of mathematical ideas in the applied sense throughout the curriculum, so you couldn't help but develop a strong grounding in the material which helps it stick.  Thus, I could see how Calc too early and not reinforced could become a 'shallow' skill by matriculation to a college curriculum.   But, I dont think that is a given[/quote]

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