Originally Posted by herenow
Originally Posted by Cricket2
Dd10 has both in 4th and 5th grade fallen into the "C" range on that chart. While I've always thought that math is an area where I see some ability in her, I've never thought she needs as much acceleration as that chart would indicate.

I recently purchased DMT and have been wondering about this. The authors give a LOT of weight to those talent search test results. If my fifth grader scored very well on the Explore 8th grade test, then she has managed to learn at least 8 years of math in 5 years. So she should be able to maintain that accelerated pace for the next 6 years? I don't know. It seems like a big jump from speeding through elementary school concepts to being able to speed through trigonometry. Does anyone have a long view on being able to maintain the acceleration through high school, or not? Is it dependent on LOG?

Many middle school students do not understand some basic math concepts , such as what the equal sign means http://kitchentablemath.blogspot.com/2011/05/equation.html and cannot solve the equation

4+3+2 = x+2

for x http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100810122200.htm . A child who understands such concepts may be better prepared for algebra than most middle school students.


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