@MalamI sent you a DM.

I just listened to this entire presentation and it was outstanding. I very highly recommend it to anyone else who might be interested. Thank you again for sharing!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!! This is so incredibly helpful!! I can’t believe you are from NZ! My husband and I visited years ago and we absolutely loved it! We plan to visit again when our children are older. Such a beautiful country with the most wonderful people! Thank you again!

Thank you for taking the time to provide your thoughts, I sincerely appreciate it. In terms of determining a course of action in terms of math, this really resonated with me, and is exactly my own sentiment, “So my goal with math was to find a program that was a good match for him and do it well and to completion, so as to lay a strong foundation and keep all doors open.” You mentioned having already provided your resources used, but I had difficulty finding that information. Is there any chance you have a link? Thank you again for your wisdom and insight. My husband is where he is today because of some advice I received from a more seasoned professional in his field about a course he should pursue following graduate school to provide him the greatest number of opportunities in the future. At the time my husband was convinced that it was unnecessary, but now he is grateful every day for that advice and the unexpected doors it opened.

This is absolutely invaluable. Thank you for sharing!!

Thank you for this. Yes, this is exactly the kind of success story I was interested in.

What kinds of things did you change after your older student? I would also be interested in knowing why you feel the regret with the first one? Did it have a negative impact on that child in the future? (Being very familiar with regret myself, I’d like to try to avoid it with my kids as much as possible…)

Thank you for that last paragraph in particular. Immensely helpful, and my son and I were just discussing this a couple days ago. We really enjoy working together and I definitely feel at his age that ideally we should continue. Somehow I was gathering the impression that working with your student is like AoPS sacrilege, so I greatly appreciate this.

I would be really interested in knowing why you did not encourage your son to attend an Ivy for undergrad. Did you find attending an Ivy for graduate school useful? I am also curious what field you are in and what your son ended up doing. You clearly raised a bright student who excelled, do you have any words of wisdom? What math trajectory did you follow? My ultimate goal with my children is to prepare them well so that they can pursue their passions and take advantage of any opportunities that come their way. I don’t want them to be inhibited by lack of adequate preparation. I was underprepared for my course of study in graduate school following my undergraduate studies at a small liberal arts college, which made my graduate studies much more difficult. Unfortunately my college did not even offer the classes necessary for proper preparation. One of my dearest friends attended Princeton and enrolled in Calculus II as a freshman and did not do well. She had aspirations to become a physician, but she said that she was advised that grade alone would preclude her from doing so because so many other students had excelled. I retook Calculus I in college before moving on to Calculus II and excelled in both, but I have always thought that perhaps the degree of difficulty at Princeton was higher than at my small liberal arts college, and I definitely do not want my son to be underprepared if that is the case. Thank you for your post and any further thoughts you might have.

@WTMI have considered Dimensions, but am not certain what to do afterward as I understand it takes you midway through both Geometry and Algebra 2. Do you have a general idea of where you will go from there? How far into AoPS are you? I could not agree more about the importance of teaching. I feel confident in my ability to teach Dimensions. I imagine I would feel the same as you about AoPS in terms of teaching it myself (although without the text I don’t know for sure), but my husband feels he can provide support for that if we go that direction.

@8filltheheart @calbear Thank you so much. This was very helpful and I really appreciate you both taking the time to respond.

Thank you for your specific text recommendations.

Thank you for your thoughts. I noticed that you posted on another commenter’s college bound question in February and that was more in line with the response I was looking for in terms of specifics regarding curricula used. I have a 26 yos who was similar. He completed MUS alg and geometry at 10. His sequence was to follow that with Foerster's alg 1 ((way more complex problems than MUS) Geometry (Alexander and Koeberlein) Foerster's alg 2/trig and AoPS Intro to Counting and Probability AoPS intermediate alg AoPS precal AoPS cal After he took the AP cal BC exam, he dual enrolled at a 4 yr U for multivariable cal DiffEQ linear alg DiffEQ 2 He decided he loved physics more than math. He ended up DEing for university physics 1&2 physical mechanics 1&2 modern physics. My current 6th grader is about 3/4 of the way through Foerster's after completing MUS alg and geo last yr. I have no clue whether she will want to pursue math like her brother. They have a sister who was at a similar place but stopped a cal 1. She loved languages and literature and that became her focus. (She ended up with degrees in Russian and French and is currently working on her master's in library and information sciences.) Only she will decide.

Hi- I'm going to piggyback on this post if that's ok :). My oldest is a young 9. He just finished Singapore Math US ed 6B. He WANTS to go into math and science (so the opposite of the OP), and he is very interested in the Ivies (due to family members and friends who have attended). Any recommendations about where to go from here? He will need to do very well on all of his standardized tests. I am having a really difficult time finding others who are interested in a strong math background, and all of the text reviews I've read talk about how they are great for those not interested in math. I would be ecstatic if anyone could relate the success story of any homeschoolers who are now in college or have graduated from college having pursued math and science at a high level --even better if they've gone on to medical school or attended an Ivy and done well and what path they used to get there. All of the people I know who are currently in the medical field (as physicians) were taught in a public school system. (I'm tempted to just get some high school texts....is that what I'm reduced to? They seem so dry for a 9 year old...) Thanks for any help you might be able to provide. 🙂