To me, one of the criteria for a gifted child should be the true ability to solve 'real world' math word problems. These provide a test to show logically thinking, math knowledge, as well as knowledge of the environment related to the problem, etc.

If you visit the following link, there are useful 'real life' problems suitable for testing a gifted child's ability.

www.mathwords.weebly.com

Harold (Hal) Schneider

hals99@sbcglobal.net