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Americans like to rush "smart" kids through math so that they get to complicated concepts sooner. However, they rarely do challenging problems so most of the progress is illusionary. I went to a top school in the US and nobody in my class was familiar with mathematical proofs, like, they literally never did it. Now, in my own country kids do proofs starting in fifth grade. But it is quite possible that those very same Americans wrote their first integral earlier than I did. But before starting on integrals I had to do a lot of difficulty problems with limits, epsilon delta type problems, proofs of theorems etc.[/quote]

I agree, but the problem is mostly with the schools.  The curriculum is pretty slow and watered down, so smart kids are going to be bored and unchallenged.  Schools can either provide more rigorous coursework and problem solving within the grade level math class, or they can accelerate the top kids.  It's much easier to accelerate the kids and not provide the deeper work, so that's what the schools choose to do.

If the classwork in AAP looked more like Beast Academy/AoPS and less like gen ed math given one year earlier, [b]there would be fewer parents clamoring to get their kids skipped ahead[/b].

For what it's worth, the best teacher my DS had used a book of very challenging, outside the box math reasoning problems with the most advanced kids in the class.  My DS was not at all bored, even though he already knew the base material being taught that year.  My DD had a different teacher, and the teacher's solution for providing enrichment for the most advanced students was to just stick them on ST Math for longer periods.  DD was eager to jump up to Algebra in 7th, because she was so bored in 5th and 6th.  [/quote]

So.... fewer is probably correct, because there are some who are genuinely concerned for their kids' boredom, but that doesn't account for the huge number of parents who seek acceleration for reasons of prestige and FOMO.[/quote]

is it FOMO or is it wanting to keep options open? If Jane and Jill and Jan are in a class and your kid isn't, and everyone progresses on that track, by the time the kids are applying for college I think the fear is that Jane and Jill and Jan will have an advantage [/quote]

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