thanks Mana,
I've read else where that the majority of gifted kids are linguistically gifted and that mathematically gifted kids are not as common. do you think thats part of it? like maybe the tests are geared toward to majority? to be fare when he tested last year he'd never even done small math on paper - he's gone from point A to 5th grade math all in about 9 months. but if he is gifted now shouldn't he have been gifted then? and if he's doing fifth grade math in kindergarten doesn't he have to be gifted? its confusing.