I just looked at some of the PBS math development pages, 'casesomeone posed them on the puzzels thread.
That's not for real, is it? I mean, they expect 4 yr olds to do basically not much more than 2 yr olds. (My almost-2 is pretty much an "average" 4, though he can't count out loud & so misses a bunch of those things, I didn't look at the five year old, though, if there's as little change, he might be there, too...)
I'm asking, really, because... well.... I'm ok with the 50% ahead thing, almost getting used to it, but... This just doesn't make sense to me. I'm SURE I've had perfectly good conversations with a lot of little kids about this stuff, DS has NOT seemed inordinatley ahead in these things... I'm just confused, that's all.
I know this sounds a bit daft, but I'm *sure* a lot of this stuff is just to make 63.7% (or so) of the population think their kids are in the top 10%. How could there be THAT little CHANGE over time?
-Mich (really, didn't someone show that 4 month olds could recognise the differences up to about 5 not that long ago?)
