Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Parenting and Advocacy Question about algebra and radical acceleration

True. No kids--GT or no--learn well in a "drill and kill" situation for the majority of their time.

(Some skills--like math facts--can be learned well this way, but anything beyond rote memorization, no. And the "drill and kill" for math facts is used short-term, in quick bursts, not as a long-range, consistent teaching method.)