Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Parenting and Advocacy requesting help with math advocacy

Perhaps you can tell me this Dottie,and anyone else who has math eduction experience, I get the impression that many teachers think it's just awful to actually go too far ahead in math taking no stock of a kid who is clearly interested and capable. It seems if they would rather have the children to logic and story problems as nauseum. I have no problem with logic/story problems, but what's the problem with letting the child go ahead and do the critical problem solving stuff?

We'll be having a meeting in a month or so to decide whether DD8 continues to leave school for math or stays when honors math starts. All the info I have indicates that she is ahead of honors math, although, it's not dreadful........

Any thoughts/suggestions would be greatly appreciated, especially if you've already been here and could guide me in what to say....However, any advice is very much appreciated.

Thanks!
Neato

Thanks,
Neato

Good to know. That's advice I can do something with. Thanks so much I truly appreciate it.

I'd love to help you with why schools seem to think faster is bad, even when the kid is getting the deeper, too, but I don't get it myself.

I understand "The Calculus Trap," but I really do think there's only so much you can do to avoid that, especially in elementary school. Things change somewhat in middle and high school, when there's more math to do and more challenge to find. But in elementary school, I think there's only so much "deeper" you can do before you really just have to go faster.

<shrug>