Are all the kids "gifted" in this area?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Maybe private schools do a better job with this, but the public schools don't seem to. Hoping the GT program is better.

It depends on the public school. My DC is in 2nd grade class in a Fairfax County public school and is doing 3rd and some 4th grade math. (They start compacted math in 1st grade at her school.)

[Anonymous]

What is wrong with the WPPSI-III that it results in so many kids with 99 percentile plus scores? Clearly most kids are not smarter than 99 percent of the population. I am no math whiz myself, but it should be impossible for 5 percent of kids to be smarter than 99 percent of the population.

[Anonymous]

It depends on the public school. My DC is in 2nd grade class in a Fairfax County public school and is doing 3rd and some 4th grade math. (They start compacted math in 1st grade at her school.)

My DD is also in FCPS, but they don't start compacted math in her school until third grade. Do all kids get compacted math starting in 1st? Is that the standard, or is it a pullout/ability grouping of some sort?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
My DD is also in FCPS, but they don't start compacted math in her school until third grade. Do all kids get compacted math starting in 1st? Is that the standard, or is it a pullout/ability grouping of some sort?

It all depends on the school due to site-based management (e.g., what the principal wants to do).

At our school, not all students get compacted math starting in 1st grade. When DC was in 1st grade last year, the teachers did ability grouping in each of the 1st grade classrooms. When the kids started this academic year, these "more advanced math" kids were pretty much all in the same 2nd grade class together.