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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, she’s a 11 year old 9th grader, at an age when most kids are in 5th grade.

I don’t necessarily agree that you need to do competition math to prove one’s worth. A lot of these kids seem to be very social, thrive with the spotlight on them and generally have more than one area of interest. Competition math is opposite, a concentrated focus in one narrow area.

College coursework credit is a real math credential for most. Maybe her interest and strength is not in going super deep in math on route to math Olympiad, which in my view is also an artificial goal and to a degree a waste of time.

These are different paths and you can endlessly argue the advantages of one over the other. Being socially savvy and knowing how to sell yourself is a good skill to have even if it seems somewhat cringy at this age.

She definite has a lot of support, I’m really curious how these kids do later in life on their own.[/quote]

Watch The Curious Case of Natalia Grace. The brother was like this. https://www.autismparentingmagazine.com/autistic-child-prodigy-jacob-barnett/

He is now is a 25-year-old theoretical physicist at Perimeter Institute. [/quote]

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