You all have such good insight, thank you so much!
We have started Mathnasium tutoring for the next 6months. She enjoys being there and the teachers there have commented on how quickly she is picking up on things.
Her IQ when tested put her at the 99.9% and there was only one subtest that was low at the 85% (it was quanitative reasoning.) Dr. Ruf commented that she would probably never be a "math whiz." So I suppose we aren't surprised at the math issues.
This will probably sound like a really goofy question, but how does ahievement testing differ from the NWEA Map testing the kids do at school? We've never done the achievement testing and I am wondering how these work.
My husband is solidly in the "she needed a good push, look how far she's come since Sept." camp. He thinks we should probably wait until the end of this summer and see where she is in her math tutoring to make a decision. I suppose I'll agree with that since there is not really a need to decide earlier. We could move her to another school, her younger sister will be going to a different GT school and if we'd move dd to this one that would help if we need to hold her back.
I definitely think this wasn't the right time for the skip and she would have been fine without it. But she was definitely underachieving and would continue to do so, hopefully in the end maybe this was a life saver for her potential (oh I hope so.....) When we last talked to Dr. Ruf about her issues, she felt like she really needed this push. Her personality profile was ENFP. From what I've read about this type, she will be much more interested in the big picture, extroverted, etc. She's very social, creative, and her imagination is incredible.
thank you all for your input, it is so valuable.
