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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son qualified to take Algebra in 7th but I heard the teacher was not that great and there wasn't a physical textbook but random pages online that they did. So I had my son do Honors 7 math plus AOPS Algebra after school. Honors 7 math was so easy he never really had homework so he had plenty of time to do AOPS instead.

So when he took Algebra in 8th it was a review and left him with really solid algebra skills. He took the next level algebra class in the evenings.[b] He then took geometry in between 8th and 9th.[/b] So when he was in 9th and doing Honors Algebra 2 he had already been exposed to it the year before. He noticed some of his classmates who did Algebra in 7th really struggled in algebra 2 because they were shaky in some algebra topics. [/quote]

This makes me sad. You had a great time with AoPS Algebra, and you noticed that school Algebra was insufficient for others. So why settle for the inferior summer version of school Geometry? I recommend doing something like AoPS Geometry to enhance that.

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It kind of makes me laugh because their kid did SOOOO much outside tutoring to ensure math was easy.  The kids in Alg. 2  who took alg in 7 may have to do a little bit of tutoring and find it hard, but the time they put into math overall is probably less AND they learn how to do something difficult.  I see both as decent lessons about growing up.[/quote]

What's so funny about taking time to learn? 
"Finding it hard" isn't the gift you make it out to be, when it's a very basic level of material and it's a cracked foundation for the future. AoPS is a lot harder than school, but it builds the strong foundation you need to succeed. [/quote]

+1.  The AoPS curriculum (and probably RSM, too), is a lot harder.  Kids whose only exposure to math is getting an A in an accelerated school Alg IH/Geom IH class are orders of magnitude behind kids who get all blue in AoPS. In everything: reasoning, speed, mathematical writing, breadth...  In short, they don't know what they're missing - and unless they go in a mathy field, may never know.  And if they do, their college professors will wonder why they chose this field.[/quote]

Not even blue. Basic green is much harder than school curriculum. 
Alcumus is computer adaptive, so as soon as a student shows basic comprehension on one topic, AoPS/Alcumus stops asking the questions that schools ask and starts each topic with harder questions. 
AoPS shows school homework as the intro examples in the text and then immediately move on to novel applications in the homework. [/quote]

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