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[quote=Anonymous][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.  [b]focus appears to be on "critical reasoning" -- as in, let's draw pictures to show *why* 5+12= 17[/b].   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 sounds exactly like a curriculum based on common core.  I thought VA didn't adopt CC.  Maybe the SOLs are just CC in disguise.[/quote]

The SOLs pre-date CC and do have a lot of similarities.  The whole "why" aspect of early math instruction I found really frustrating.  Explain why 4+7=11?  It just is!! At least that seems to have become less of an issue at higher math levels.

My DS starting being pulled out by the gifted teacher for reading in 1st grade and math in 2nd grade before being formally ID'd as gifted in 3rd.  Our first gifted teacher was wonderful and DS really enjoyed the pull out time and it did seem to provide him some good additional challenges.  Unfortunately, she left and he really disliked the replacement.  So, the quality of gifted services seems to vary a lot by the specific teacher.   [/quote]

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