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I was very happy to notice that AoPS's autumn schedule has several classes on Saturdays, at times when the UK (as well as the US) is awake. DS10 will do the Saturday AMC10 preparation class. (Weird choice you might think, given that we don't have AMC10 here, but after finding Intro to Geom ate too much of his free time last year, he very much wanted something with not too much work expected between classes, while I was quite keen that he get back on the AoPS horse and see what it's like to be able to go to class in real time. I think he'll get things out of it.)

Please let me know if any of your children do it, and please let anyone else who might be interested know about the existence of Saturday classes. I'm very keen that AoPS find this viable and offer more classes at times that work for us!

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DS8 enjoyed the MATHCOUNTS/AMC 8 Basics class. The live class is good to follow along in real time and answer questions quickly, which DS8 did reasonably. I would sit next to him and watch and observe how he responded to detect strengths and weaknesses, and maybe add explanations of my own, and I like to observe what the AoPS people do and see how they think. (And I paid for the class so I'm going to watch it too.)

There are 12-16 homework/challenge problems per week that are graded instantly just like Alcumus. (There wasn't human-graded written work.) He probably took longer than average because he was probably a little less prepared/experienced than the others, as he'd only taken prealgebra.

For AoPS courses I've been debating whether to use the class or just the book
http://giftedissues.davidsongifted.org/BB/ubbthreads.php/topics/197574/AoPS_Book_vs_Course.html
and I'm hoping DS8 will work through the book when there is one (but the contest preparation classes don't have a book).