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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I have a now-3rd grade son who sounds somewhat similar to your son.  I don't really have advice, but here is our pathway in case it helps.   In first grade, he worked at school with a volunteer who was a retired Blair math teacher who extolled his math abilities and thought that the 4/5 compacted math would be appropriate for him as a 2nd grader.  My school would not do that sort of thing, and I didn't ask for it because I didn't want him to be with kids that old.  I instead pushed for some amount of enrichment and the school was reasonably accommodating.  Yes, he did the same work as the top math group did, all of which he did lickety split, and then on top of that he was at least 1/week given deeper problems from Singapore math and Math Forum.  He is the kind of kid who doesn't get frustrated or upset by being asked to do easy stuff he already knows, so that worked out OK.  And then I worked with him at home on other things, like Math Olympiad, Math Kangaroo, etc., for the fun of it.  He is not so advanced that as a third grader, he would be able to compete with the top Takoma Park magnet 6th graders, even though he certainly knows a lot more math than most 8th graders (which I am able to assess because of my older kid and volunteering at school).  You might consider using that as a guide of what kind of math he should be studying -- does he already need more than those magnet middle schoolers are getting, and if not, do you want to make sure he is a on pathway where he will be able to join them easily at the right time.  My son is going to an HGC for 4th grade, and I expect that there will be some kids like him there and that he will find a nice niche.  Hope that helps.  [/quote]

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