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This might not be relevant but DD had a weird blind spot when she was into jigsaw puzzles around age 2. Her father tried to get her to see that frame pieces have a straight side so it'd be so much easier for her to do the frame first then work from there. She didn't get it (or chose to ignore him) and did all her puzzles from inside. Spatial perceptional processing and reasoning ability are her strengths so this didn't make much sense. She could make hexagon using different shapes and read rotated words but she couldn't see a straight line? I figured it was developmental and left it alone while her father just. could. not. let. it. go. Eventually, she got it (or decided that it was easier to comply than argue with her father) but she still prefers to do puzzles inside first and work towards the frame, not that she is all that interested in puzzles anymore.

So I think it's normal for mathematical oriented child to have strange "lags" so to speak. With math, DD is so all over the place that we probably have to move ahead with certain areas and check periodically to see if she's ready to revisit other things later.