MY son is in Kindy now, he is Ok so far, although sometimes he complained that school doesn't teach math. I wonder if the teacher can handle him since he always ask some "tough math questions" like how much is 0 divided by 0
:-) Sad thing is, probably school does teach what they see as maths, but it's just counting and he doesn't even recognise it as such. Are you planning on advocating for him to get harder maths, or just leaving it be for now?
Sometimes I am not sure if he is that advanced, he seems like normal boy most of time(bit strong willed, and very little sleep), sometimes he just freak me out by figure out some middle-high school math problems. I was wondering if it because I give him all the chance to explore math, and answered all his math questions, or he truly is kind of "something"??? His IQ test doesn't seems THAT high.
That is very familiar to me. (We have no test scores for DS7, but I don't think I'd expect them to be as high as his maths achievement might suggest: in other areas he's bright, for sure, but not nearly as remarkable. And I do wonder how much is exposure. I think, in the end, that it doesn't matter: I think it is good for his character development to be exposed to this maths and have things he gets to think about instead of it all being easy, and I think that'll still be true even if, as an adult, he no longer looks especially good at maths.
Now, I am using some of mathematical olympiad material to let him explore the fun of numbers,. it is not high grade, but lot of deeper and fun
Yup, there's lots of good stuff out there these days, isn't there? Our best discovery lately, by the way, is
Geogebra - lots of exploration fun!
But comes to technique, which requires lots of practice, is another thing. He cries because he could not do it,( I would say, he could not do it just so EASY anymore) I have to tell him again and again it is okay, just need more practice,
even smart kid needs working hard.
Again very familiar. DS is just now getting better at practising, without needing lots of handholding, without giving up.
