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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We can certainly relate.  Our daughter (in first grade) receives gifted services for both math and language arts.  more simple addition worksheets for a kid who is interested in and capable of doing multiplication.  focus appears to be on "critical reasoning" -- as in, let's draw pictures to show *why* 5+12= 17.   it's extremely frustrating because there's active resistance to her doing any math beyond simple addition and subtraction.  I'm not convinced the GT services in APS (or at least at our school) differentiate between high achievement and giftedness -- teaching pedagogy seems not to take into account that gifted kids learn differently (and often non-sequentially).    we're starting to think we've got to shift our kid to private school too...[/quote]

That's not a G&T problem, it's the ridiculous way they teach math to all kids.  My son is in APS and he gets special ed for HFA, and they are doing the same thing with us - not teaching him to memorize number pairs for the basics,  it all this figuring out garbage. I'm doing drills at home. [/quote]

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