Resumen de Meeting the needs of our best and brightest: curriculum acceleration in tertiary mathematics

John Hannah, Clemency Montelle, Jacqui Nokes, Alex James

• For many years, it has been a common practice to recognize students with high potential by according them targeted privileges and opportunities. This includes the practice of allowing students to accelerate their high school programme and, in the case of New Zealand students, to take university courses during their final school years. This work assesses the wisdom of this practice of acceleration in mathematics both for the student and the tertiary institution.