Back to wordy/mathy, I think perhaps there's another "giftedness" we are missing altogether. I recently called my daughter my most "verbally gifted". But thinking about that more, that's just not true. She does NOT have a huge vocabulary, and her reading skills are more moderately gifted. But she has an amazing ability to think, and create, and see connections that others miss. She does this using "small words" though, LOL! It's hard to explain. Maybe that ties in more with her perceptual giftedness, which has always tested fairly high.
That reminds me of a book I read related to learning styles/dispositions. I was familiar with styles (e.g. modalities: auditory, visual, kinesthetic) but not with dispositions. What you're describing sounds a lot like either the inventing disposition or the thinking/creating disposition.
There's a brief synopsis of the dispositions here:
http://www.homeschoolmarketplace.com/choosing/learning.htmlWhen I read the longer explanations, it seemed like producers were the kids/adults who people hold up as "ideal", but it seemed to me that the truly gifted were more likely to be amongst inventors and the thinkers/creators (certainly there are probably truly gifted amongst all of the categories, but maybe more false positives amongst producers and more false negatives amongst the other categories).
One of the big distinguishing factors between producers and other areas seemed to be an interest in actually finishing projects and assignments. As I recall, the thinkers/creators and inventors were less interested in final product, and were likely to leave a project behind and move on to a new interest once they had satisfied/explored the aspects of the project that were of interest. Hmmm. Does that sound familiar to anyone else?
Of course, in the spirit of full disclosure, I should say that everyone in our family came out with extremely low scores (some negative number scores!) in the producer area, so perhaps my viewpoint is a bit skewed....
