She is not motivated by grades or scores. She is not a teacher's pet. She kind of gets lost in the middle because she's not a problem. If she is not challenged by work, she would prefer to not do it. She will make small computation errors because she's really not engaged. When we introduce new/more challenging material, she digs right in. She is good at "mental math". Sometimes she shows no work and her teacher assumes she guessed. She loves logic puzzles and math games.
...wow, she's just like my daughter!! (Mine's made it into the gifted math program for grade 5, which starts in Sept.) She also wasn't showing her math work (bored, unmotivated, etc.) She's really hard to motivate in general, unless it's something she's interested in... (at the moment it's origami - as I type this she's in front of her lap top looking at diagrams, with scraps of paper littered all over the table and the floor, lol).
Congrats on your successful appeal
