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Name:   Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (CTY)
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http://cty.jhu.edu/
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Maryland & California
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Johns Hopkins University
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For more than 20 years, this Center at Johns Hopkins University has identified America’s top academic students in grades two through eight and provided challenging educational programs through their 10th grade year.
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Last Updated
 
 
12/18/2006
 
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Contributed by: Davidson Young Scholar  
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DestinationMATH is the best math program because it teaches you how to do detailed problems using a cute little guy named "Digit." Actually, he's an alien. And he steps through each problem if you're having trouble. There's always great animation to catch your attention and make you want to do the math problem.
 
Contributed by: Parent of Davidson Young Scholar  
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Academic Systems, Grade 7, Honors Pre-Algebra has generally been a success for our Young Scholar. The gentle, frequent quizzes (she is test-phobic) have been very helpful. Academic Systems is fun, with lots of visually pleasing video illustrations of concepts and operations. She loves that if she aces a pre-test (8 problems, on average), she can use that grade for the entire section, no boring repetition, no homework. If she misses a few on the pre-test, then the program directs her to go through the work in only the areas she needs to-- any correctly answered problems move her ahead. This works very well. There are several student instructors in the course and each has a pleasant voice and interesting personality. Another useful feature: when concepts are explained there are usually several options of style in the explanation available to the student, in case the primary one doesn't allow the student to "get it." We only have two complaints: we live in a rural area with only telephone internet access and need to be online to do the course (with tutor), and, as far as we can tell, the tutors do not interact with the students very much (only a note of introduction.) But, all in all, the student and parents are pleased.
 
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