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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So your logic (or illogic as the case may be) to avert this problem (of being too advanced) is to slow a precocious child down?

Have you ever heard of this strategy for music (e.g., piano and violin) , art, language, sports development?

Would anyone (parent, teacher or administrator) with a teaspoon of brains slow a 4-year-old down from a voracious appetite of reading multiple chapter books and novels for fear this 4-year-old is too advanced for chronologic and peer group age  in school (now or later)?

Why on earth would anyone put the breaks on a budding mathematician (or artist or musician)?
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Its not a race.  Thats why.[/quote]

Not the OP or the PP, but must speak up here. A child who has a talent in logic that leads him/her to doing well in math doesn't see it as a "race" . He/she just sees  more advanced math as interesting problems to solve vs lots of mindless boring repitition. These kids tend to be self motivated by curiosity, not the type motivated by some more crass motivators like it being a "race" or a competition. You are projecting, IMHO.[/quote]

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