Originally Posted by longcut
Based on the discussion about the Typical math progressions for high achievers, am I understanding correctly that it doesn't really pay to subject accelerate more than a year in sequence due to forgetting the middle school studies when it comes to college? (That is, unless the person is likely to graduate early and go to college, then it's just shifting the whole process ahead


A friend of mine had a son who was part of a mathy cohort of kids who took algebra in 6th grade. Most of them finished Calc BC in 11th grade and then took stats in 12th. However, most of the kids chose to repeat some calc in college because they had forgotten things during their year off from calculus.