Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Identification, Testing & Assessment High IQ, but average in math?

Total newb question: but where do you see her giftedness? 75 is above average, and was just wondering if this is a highly verbal and emotionally artistic child. Much of what is associated with math and high IQ, to me, is intuitive thinkers. They are fascinated by things, and how things work. But, intuitive feelers are fascinated by people, and how people work. An intuitive thinker is an awesome mathematician and scientist, and intuitive feeler is an amazing author and humanitarian. As far as the breakdown on IQ and personality type, NFs are just as high as NTs. Anyhow, if she is not doing well in math, perhaps it's because she is more interested in science and relationships with people, than science and relationships with things. That would be OK.

My 2nd grade dd says she dislikes math and her school also uses EM. Her PRI on the WISC was 151. I think she'd like math more if it was a different curriculum.

You hit the nail on the head with this, mountainmom. She's definitely a "intuitive feeler" and has always been very attuned to people and emotions. As a baby (starting around 8/9 months old) when we were out & about, if she saw or heard other kids crying, she would get very upset and direct my attention to it, almost like she wanted ME to help them. That was one of my first indications that I was gonna be in WAY over my head with her!

Thanks everyone for your thoughts. I feel better about pursuing the testing, and will see what steps to take once that is done. All she's been doing so far in math is addition & subtraction facts, which are pretty boring and dry, so it's no surprise that she doesn't like that!