Good At Math vs Ahead In Math

<p>There was a girl in my daughter’s high school who got all the math awards because she was a class ahead of the other girls. She had been homeschooled during her early years and had kept her math tutor once she went into middle and high school. She took classes in the summer and really fancied herself as a little wizard. One day, the physics teacher said to her, “I hope that you are not doing anything with math in college because you really are not very good at it.” Hmmmmm. This was much to the amusement of a couple of other kids in the class who, like you, were actually good in math, but did not have a private tutor nor did they accelerate in the summer. </p>

<p>Have fun. Do what you like. Get the best math foundation you possibly can and then take math as far as you like once you enter college. High schools are so varied that high school seniors apply with all different levels of math achievment.</p>