but struggles with the easy, simple concepts.
This is what my 2nd grader's teacher told me recently at our conferences in reference to dd's math ability. I'm finding this to be true. For instance, she was doing long division problems such as 370 ÷ 41. But when it comes to 490-489 she will want to do the problem by writing it all out and borrowing instead of just looking at the numbers and realizing that there's only 1 number difference between them.
The teacher thinks this is a gifted thing. Is it?
