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Transform Your Child's Summer

AoPS Summer Camps transform students' educational experiences by creating an environment where intellectual challenges replace test-focused mentality. Unlike the regular school year, these camps allow students to explore engaging material with exemplary instructors and like-minded peers, tackling topics many won't encounter in standard classrooms. Whether through mathematics or language arts programs, these camp experiences often become pivotal moments in a student's development, sparking interests that evolve into passions and potentially future careers.
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The Full Potential Trap: Why Optimizing Gifted Kids Can Break Them (and Us)

Dr. Hui S. Jiang explores how a focus on maximizing gifted children's potential can create harmful pressure and anxiety. When success becomes the measure of worth, children learn to equate their identity with achievement, leading to perfectionism and fear of failure. Dr. Jiang shares how parents can break this cycle by intentionally shifting focus away from outcomes, normalizing struggle, creating non-performance spaces, and verbally affirming unconditional love. This thoughtful examination reminds us that our children's worth isn't measured by accomplishments, and that genuine curiosity and joy in learning matter more than external validation.
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How to Help Your Advanced Learners Be Successful This Year: Advice from AoPS Founder Richard Rusczyk

AoPS founder Richard Rusczyk has 3 top recommendations for preparing your advanced learner to return to school after the pandemic.
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Stop Making Silly Mistakes

What are the two keys to minimizing silly mistakes? Developing good habits and organizing your work. We break down some tips and habits to help curb your errors.
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Don't Fall into the Calculus Trap

For an avid student with great math skills, rushing through the standard curriculum is not the best answer. Take advantage of our online community and online classes to keep your student truly challenged.
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Beast Academy Math and Your Gifted Learner

Transform your gifted learner's mathematical journey with Beast Academy, where problem-solving embodies what makes us uniquely human: innovation, adaptability, and connection. In an era of artificial intelligence and instant answers, Beast Academy goes beyond acceleration, using rich challenges and delightful beast characters to develop the lateral thinking patterns that gifted minds naturally possess. Your child won't just learn math—they'll master the art of creative problem-solving essential for long-term success.