I thought this thread was going to be about kids’ parents buying them major charitable accomplishments. Being good at math is table stakes now. Nothing special.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, overdoing math enrichment at an early age does not equate to future Ivy League admission. Silly title.

Who says it's over-doing and not normal-doing?

In 5 years those same parents will be complaining that Jr. Is bored in math class and they genuinely will think that it's the school's problem

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, overdoing math enrichment at an early age does not equate to future Ivy League admission. Silly title.

Who says it's over-doing and not normal-doing?

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, overdoing math enrichment at an early age does not equate to future Ivy League admission. Silly title.

but seems a lot more plausible than doing nothing let's face it prep makes a big difference

Yeah, overdoing math enrichment at an early age does not equate to future Ivy League admission. Silly title.

Only thing this shows is OP is really stupid.

I would be surprised if my child put RSM as an extra curricular activity on his college application. Outside of the fact that the last class that I can see on the RSM schedule is for 9th graders, I don't know that listing enrichment classes makes sense.

I expect that RSM will help because it helps him strengthen his foundational math skill so that he should have better grades in math and a stronger understanding of mathematical principles. This should help him perform better in classes and on AP/IB exams, which should help him with college applications.

Impressed that at least the thread is not Asian tiger mom bashing. But, wait for it .. 3..2..1...

There is always a thread about Russian Math - it's just one of those trends like Singapore math or AoPS (I prefer the latter).

As a scientist, I'm all about math, but really - pick the method you like best! There isn't ONE best method.

Does it help for college admissions? Only in the broader sense that children are trained in logical thinking and making connection, which informs everything else they do, such as scientific reasoning, reading comprehension for literature and social sciences. But again, there isn't one magic formula, and the worse you can do as a parent is blindly follow trends and torture a child who isn't predisposed to like a certain way of doing math. There are other ways of training logical thinking, like music, chess or the grammar of certain languages such as French or Latin. But they have to be taught seriously, of course.

Oh please, recycling old trends & slapping on alarming headline is so tiresome . This sort of crap is why trust in media is low. It IS the NYP, so, not surprising, but people then post it to social media, DCUM, morning news shows…and it gets traction…

This isn't new. If you want to see how it plays out, look at all the parents screaming about schools ignoring 'merit' or complaining that their. 6th graders is 4 years ahead and their school is unable to provide appropriate classes

This is old news. Just one way to try to handle watered down math in lower grades. It just results in a good math education. Won't get you into Ivy League

This isn’t new

The title of this article is dumb. In what way is math tutoring equivalent to paying to get kids into the ivy league?

At the tender age of 7, while most kids were learning to ride bikes and play video games, Natalia Latuskiewcz was pondering early principles of multiplication and algebra two hours per week in her Russian math class.

“I thought my daughter could do more than what she was offered [in school],” her mother, Anna Latuskiewcz, told The Post. The 44-year-old Stanford alum, who works as a data scientist and investor, enrolled Natalia in the Russian School of Mathematics seven years ago, paying $3,000 for the tutoring — on top of $30,000 annually for tuition at an all-girls private elementary school.

“If she wants to be a doctor, an engineer — math will never hurt. Her math will increase the understanding of the world,” said the mom of four who lives in Medina, Washington. “The sky is the limit.”

The latest must-have for well-to-do parents eager to give their children any and every advantage is Russian math classes. They utilize a method that was developed in the Soviet Union during the Cold War and prioritize reasoning, critical thinking and abstract principals over brute memorization. Companies offering the instruction are seeing a boom in enrollment as wealthy families look to infiltrate the Ivy League.

https://nypost.com/2023/02/20/russian-math-classes-are-the-new-must-for-wealthy-kids/