Originally Posted by blackcat
I haven't seen DD's personal packet so don't know how she was attempting to solve it but I'm imagining drawings of actual flowers. smile

This other girl's paper was a mess with lots of erasing.

Once I showed DD how to write out the first letter of each flower she was like "oh yeah, ok." If the teacher had just spent 30 seconds showing them an example problem, all of these kids probably could have figured it out.

Yeah, there is a HUGE difference between "fully autodidactic" and "needs little instruction."

HG+ kids aren't even entirely in the latter group. Mine sure isn't. Even with really good supporting resources, she still has to ask the occasional question. If she does, it's instantaneous epiphany 90% of the time. If she doesn't, she may churn over something little for a very long time. I've had no real luck convincing educators that some children need about 10% of the instruction. Not 0%.


Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.