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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]8yo with recent IQ in 98th percentile on wisc v. My advice is to find a good school. DD is sufficiently challenged in math. She has mastered long multiplication and long division (456x34 and 5423/21) and simplifying and adding/subtracting/multiplying/dividing fractions. Area and perimeter and easy algebra. This is all just normal at her school. She doesn't even really like math--so we don't push her. She took the SCAT for CTY and failed to qualify for the math by one question. But we weren't interested in that anyway.

We were interested in reading stuff. She's been reading chapter books since 4. She loves reading. And while she reads everything, and gets pretty decent instruction at school with kids 2 grades above her, it is not really challenging her. She comprehends at a high school level.

We've always seemed to know what to do with her by just following her lead and getting her into a really good school. [/quote]

Sorry, none of this is impressive in this area (DC area). I'm not trying to be mean but this is pretty typical. [/quote]

Did you really read my post? That was kind of my point. My child barely has a gifted IQ. She works at these levels at school because the school is great and differentiates. Her reading ability is pretty remarkable, but again school is not interfering negatively. They in fact give her comprehension passages at her (high school) legal as enrichment. And I know many kids who qualify for CTY. It's an easy process, and we plan on using the humanities offerings which DD has qualified for.

I wouldn't say it's typical, but I don't think it's that impressive especially for this area. [/quote]

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