Hard to completely dodge the concept as like with momoftwins, DS has seen at least one book about gifted kids in the house. He knows he did all sorts of testing (code word:fun puzzles) last year which led to his skip. Other than numbers, there isn't much room to dodge a sharp aware kid when he isn't being age-appropriately obtuse.

We watched the "Big Brain Theory" engineering competition, and they put up IQs for the contestants. So, some discussion there. But no, no number for him. I actually don't think we have a number I believe is quite right to tell him anyhow.

My main summary line with him is "you can be as smart as you want to put the effort into being."