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The Greatest Educational Life Hack: Learning Math Ahead of Time

Learning math early guards you against numerous academic risks and opens all kinds of doors to career opportunities.

moving too quickly, brushing over concepts, explaining things poorly, assuming knowledge of important but frequently missing prerequisite material, not offering enough practice opportunities,... When a student learns a lot of advanced math ahead of time, they unlock the opportunity to delve into a wide variety of specialized fields that are usually reserved for graduates with strong mathematical foundations. All other things being equal, an earlier career start from [academic] acceleration will allow an individual to devote more time in early adulthood to creative production, and this will result in an increased level of accomplishment over the course of one's career....[In this study] Mathematically precocious students who grade skipped were more likely to pursue advanced degrees and secure STEM accomplishments, reached these outcomes earlier, and accrued more citations and highly cited publications in STEM fields than their matched and retained intellectual peers."

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