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Maybe this is the answer i was looking for. I have had trouble teaching my daughter her numbers 6-19. She is advanged in all other areas: reading, vocab, art, athletics, problem solving, and even science. She is 4.5. But these numbers have been driving both of us nuts. I actually stopped showing the numbers to her the other day because i was afraid it was making her irritated. She just can't recall them. But I showed her a clock and explained the short hand and she start telling me times. She can put the numbers in order and tell more and less and other things like that but she just can't name them. I think I will move onto addition with her and see how she picks that up. Who knows?

"US teachers tend to aim content towards the 19th percentile which is 7 or 8 times lower than gifted students need"

If this is correct, it is the most frightening point of the paper.

WOW! Does this help make some sense of my dd!!!

Don't you love when you read something and the bell goes "ding, ding, ding, ding!!!!!"

Thanks for finding and sharing!!!

So i tried this concept out on my 4 yr old who couldnt remember a lot of her numbers. I just tried her with addition, subtraction, and did some more "more or less" and she did very well and started remembering the numbers. So I guess she just needed to move up a level to stay focused.

My kids didn't like the English language naming system for numbers 11-19 because it doesn't make sense. DS invented his own names which follow the pattern for other numbers:

11 = Onety-one
12 = Onety-two
13 = Onety-three

etc.

From there he was able to transition to the regular names when I explained that the suffix "-teen" comes from the word "ten", so "sixteen" means "six and ten." That seemed to make sense to him.

To help kids learn the names of the other numbers, nursery rhymes like One, two, buckle my shoe are good. Use her verbal strengths to give her a memory hook for the numbers.

My daughter did that also. She would say oneteen, two teen, threeteen etc. I think that is why she gets the 20's and 30's easier.

my son used to say eleventeen, twelveteen, etc.

Tell me if this makes sense?

Set a goal each year for Math facts and once the kids hit the goal they can do something else. It seems to me they can only get so fast. It does take time to write down the anwsers. Do they really need to do all the drills again if they have it?

One day I looked at my 3rd grader's math drill page with single digits next to my 1st Grader's page with 10 less problem and felt like school is overdoing it. It just seems like a waste of time if he has got it already. Am I wrong?

And in the Hobbit, Tolkien adds another twist:
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&q=hobbit+eleventy