My DS7 has never shown a big interest in math. He's VERY verbal, and early on had difficulty with one-to-one correspondence (counting objects) as he couldn't see that he should count them in some order. He recently has been asking more math questions, though. So, in a few days, I taught him how to add large numbers (carrying,etc...). And in the few minutes every couple of days we've talked about multiplication and division, he now understands those concepts (doesn't have all the multiplication tables memorized, but reasons out the answers -- not always correctly, but given enough time, he generally is able to figure it out). In school (1st grade), they're doing simple addition and subtraction. Does this seem like the type of thing you who have gifted math kids see from them, or are the mathy gifted far above this?
Thanks for the input!
