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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. I'm a pretty laid back parent and haven't given the tests that much thought over the years. Kid is clearly doing well. Occasionally I wonder/worry about what happens in later grades, hence my question.

We are in DC area.

As I said I haven't kept track of test results that closely. I can't tell you what different tests, except percentiles have been consistent since child thought themself to read age three. At some point one of the tests offered an IQ equivalent which I recall was in the mid 140s. Don't know how much stock to put in that. Surprised to hear this is commonplace in DC.

Thanks to the pp who mentioned the Neuro psych eval. I'll think about that, but also at this point am not sure further testing is what I want to do. Want kid to just be a kid and not on a path to college by 13 or some whizz kid math nerd. [/quote]

OP, you are jumping the gun. Based on the information you provided your kid is extremely smart and I don't mean to minimize that but the scenarios you describe are a whole other category of smart. An IQ of 140 something and MAP scores that are in the 220s for a 7 year old will not put your child on a path to college at 13 or make him a whiz kid math nerd. I can assure that statistically speaking there should be several kids like your child in almost every decent-sized school in America. Your child's level is not that rare. Look up the math.[/quote]

This. Though I can tell from your postings that you don't want to hear it, I'm quite certain that if you handed your child a 6th or 7th grade random worksheets, walked away with no explanations, your kid is not spitting answers out.  Your kid is probably one of the many who is a bright kid.  (My then first grader could hear his sixth grader cousin working on her homework in the next room with a tutor and he'd be yelling out the answer while he was distracted working on a Lego set.  Does that mean that my kid at the age of 6 could do 6th grade math?  Not necessarily.  It means that my 6 year old could easily do that topic, without even looking at it, in his head.)  You can see from the responses to here, your kid isn't an only - he's one of many.  He isn't that rare...and the test doesn't mean he is really working at that level.  Don't believe me?  Well, not surprised.  I mean he'd have to know things like order of operations, exponents, negative numbers, converting fractions to decimals/percentages to fractions, improper fractions to mixed numbers, rhombus' compared to parallelograms, how to figure out the circumference of a circle (with diameters versus radius'), probability topics, median, mode, range, mean, ratios, etc.  There's a lot in there for your kid to cover...

Hand your kid this:  https://www.cmleague.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/CML_sample_E6.pdf

If he completes this without assistance or instruction, I'd be impressed.[/quote]

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