This article speaks directly to the problem that Art of Problem Solving is trying to address. https://www.artofproblemsolving.com/ https://www.artofproblemsolvi

This article speaks directly to the problem that Art of Problem Solving is trying to address. https://www.artofproblemsolving.com/ https://www.artofproblemsolving.com/ Richard Ruszcyk wants to teach kids to think, how to solve novel problems, and hates the normal approach of teaching rote formulas. No student steeped in the AoPS way would crash during the Oxford interviews. An Oxford interview is their "middle school normal". The AoPS text books are the best math textbooks I've seen anywhere. The online classes are great, but the pace is blistering. But most kids should use the AoPS books, just at a more suitable pace. (And by blistering, I mean my daughter was very seriously challenged to keep up with her peers all the way through single variable calculus, where AoPS tops out. She then enrolled in multi-variable calculus at a local engineering university at age 13 and blew away the curve.) AoPS is an example of where learning can go. AoPS teaches how to think, not how to takes tests.