your daughter sounds like me ...I hated math - loved geometry and even trigonometry - I never did well with computation because of my dyslexia but once we could use a calculator I was fine - I took an IQ test the year before I entered college and had a good laugh because ... apparently I have a math talent- and had abysmal grades in math ... believe me - nobody would have guessed ... So yes ... completely possible to have a talent and not excel at the correlating subject in school.
I have a child with a math talent and no interest in math whatsoever ( and we tried to make it interesting ) My son can breeze through math but if he had a choice ... he would rather do something else. They tried math competitions and such and he hated it - he doesn't mind math but ... it is by no means an area he is passionate about.
Talent doesn't equal passion ... I love art and music and I have no particular talent for it. ( none whatsoever in fact ;-) )
