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[quote=Anonymous]You should reconsider AOPS and AMC/AIME. If your child loves math, will work on a starred AOPS problem and think deeply about it until they get it then it is a fantastic program. It really isn't that great for students who are good in math, do well in math at school but don't adore math.

AOPS originally was a book students read and puzzled through without outside instruction like videos or a class. It is about being able to work through novel problems and then use that information to solve more problems that are related.That takes time. Way more time than direct instruction followed by practice problems until you have automaticity in the procedures.

To do well and get A's in high school math you don't have to spend the time going through AOPS. There are plenty of programs where you can directly learn and practice high school math in half the time as AOPS.

I have one child who has always loved math and would spend hours on AOPS, pause while thinking about a really hard problem and then will go walk the dog and thinks some more until the solution came to him. He did AOPS before there were online classes. In college now as a physics major and thinking about a minor in math.

My other two kids were good in math but it just wasn't their passion. They wanted to good grades so they were motivated to learn math a year or two ahead of what they were learning in school. So for example when they entered a class like Honor PreCalc or Honors Algebra 2, they had already taken a year of the class online not connected to their school. So the class was like a review so they had time to study higher level math.

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