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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]New poster. I have an extremely accelerated child (calculus at 11). Child LOATHES Aops. Child says it is too wordy and too much focus on tricks. If there’s a problem that looks like you have to spend a lot of time on a brute force way, child says it’s obvious there is a “trick”. Child says it makes math less fun.

Child has been much, much happier working with a local math circle on contest problems. With the math circle problems, sometimes there is a “shortcut” to discover and sometimes not. [/quote]

Obviously what you are doing works, but...

One could easily argue that finding a new way to look at a problem and applying a concept originally instead of speding a lot of time on a brute force way is one aspect of mastering mathmatics, and even what makes math rewarding.

I agree that having fun with math is probably the most important aspect of a program on the long term, and if your kid loathes it, don't even bother, plenty of other resources outthere and I'm sure you can find something that clicks.

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