Originally Posted by Kriston
A friend of mine with a GT child several years ahead of mine talks about wanting to get her child through the elementary years as fast as possible, because that's where the spark usually gets snuffed. She says there's more "deep" to be had once you get out of the near perma-shallows of the primary grades. I didn't really get that until this year...

Friends of mine, both Phd in Math, parents of three boys, do not rush at all. How many way to produce number 10? Well, if the kids think they know ALL, they try negative numbers, when they figure that, they go to fractions!