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[quote=Anonymous][quote]A little off topic, but I'm curious what these advanced children learn during their math education if they are on this advanced track and say know all their addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division by 2nd grade or so. I have a friend with a kindergartener who knows addition and subtraction very well even with high numbers and has been moving on to multiplication and division. I'm just wondering where does this child end up at the end of elementary, middle, or high school? Is there any benefit to this type of acceleration in a public school setting or do you basically have to find a private school to handle children at a level like that?[/quote]

Easy answer.  Many of these kids find math mentors (e.g., parents, teachers, coaches) to guide them through when they have essentially mastered the watered down, superficial, shallow K through 12 school math curriculum by middle school.  Examples of activities include outside math circles and clubs for problem solving, computer programming, dual enrollemt in math departments in unversity and community colleges while in the K through 12 grade system (with and without credit), other math application endeavours (e.g., physics, robotics, computer science).  Get onto Art of Problem Solving website for answers to any of your curiosities about kids passionate about math.

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