Originally Posted by Breakaway4
The teacher actually used these examples to show me how he was NOT gifted. Not to say these are brilliant answers but they show that he did read the ad and did think about the answers he just hadn't learned the trick yet of knowing the "expected" answer.
That teacher probably wouldn't appreciate the example Renzulli gave in his book Light Up Your Child's Mind about creative but unexpected answers. When asked what's half of 8, the child replied 3 - if you erase the left side of the number 8, you get a 3! grin