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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The parents who think their progeny are so gifted at math are the same ones who stress about keeping them artificially ahead of their peers by using kumon or aops.

It is stressful. They think if they can just keep Jonny ahead every step of the way their kid will get into TJ. But it’s short sided thinking. The truly gifted kids don’t need tutoring. It will catch up to them eventually. [/quote]

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The truly gifted kids don't need tutoring but they definitely do need enrichment.[/quote]

I view Robotics Club, Chess Club, Coding Club and other similar activities as enrichment. DS asks to participate in those after school activities. They all involve math/engineering/critical thinking skills in some manner and they are all fun. He loves attending them, some of his friends attend them with him. He comes home and works with his Legos at home or asks to play board games.

I asked my son if he was interested in going to extra math classes and he looked at me in horror. A few days later he was working on a Sudoku book and then a logic puzzles books.

I am in favor of enrichment but enrichment does not equate with Mathnasium or Kumon or AoPS or whatever other math tutoring programs are out there.

And I roll my eyes at the parents who complain that math is too easy at the school. Normally those parents are the ones who put their kids into a tutoring program as enrichment. Well of course the math is going to be easy, you have been drilling your child in math for how long? [/quote]

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