My son is six years old and was recently placed in our public schools gifted program.
He was given the COGAT and scored V 97%, Q 96%, NV 97%. His composite score was 99%. His spring MAP scores are 181 in math and 179 in reading. The gifted specialist tells me it is unusual for a child to get these scores on the COGAT, although I'm sure that's not the case for the viewers of this forum!
I'm new to all of this and I'm not sure what to do for my son. I was frustrated all year with kindergarten with countless coloring pages. Now with first grade, I'm trying to be patient, but his homework today was making tally marks, simple addition and counting. The second page required him to read color words as fast as he could. This was clearly not a challenge for him at all.
I don't think my son is ready for algebra, but I'm certain he's capable of more than what he is bringing home. The fact is, I don't know what he's capable of and I don't where to start.
Do I have additional testing done? If so, what tests? Do I meet with his teacher? What is reasonable for me to ask of her? I know that it's impossible for her to meet the needs of every student, but I hate the idea of him spending the day counting to 200 at school when he's asking me about adding negative numbers at home.
Thanks for your insight.
