One of the biggest take-aways we got from a math camp our kids attended was:
“It’s okay to go faster. Realistically, you should be going as fast as your kid wants.”
So we asked our kid if they wanted to do even more math and they said, “yes”.
“It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.‘ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?”
―Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
Oh. Okay, then. So we did more math.
How did you initially decide to accelerate?
For a few years we had been doing math outside of school because our kid loved spending time problem solving math problems.
So we supported them by finding material on which we could work through together.
Some types of problems came easily so we steered the material to the types of problems that took longer to figure out.
They enjoyed it and we enjoyed working with them through it.