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[quote=Anonymous]I think Everyday Math has them all doing "algebra" in 4th grade -- that's what the number machine (I think that's what they called them) problems are about.  Similarly, I think you can teach any Kindergartner to divide -- it's actually something they've very interested in  (what's a fair share) and there are a variety of different ways you can teach it (counting off (or dealing out) are a couple of very simple approaches).

In all this, it's important to remember how much curriculum is just convention.  It's not always the case that you have to be a certain age to understand certain things; it can be that that's the age certain things are typically taught.  Are you "advanced" if you learn them earlier?  Not necessarily.

One thing that cracked me up about the 10,000 hours stuff was that I used to joke that my indefatigable preschooler wasn't a genius; DC was just  1/3 older than her peers if you measured life in waking hours.  Sometimes you see lists of traits typical of highly and/or profoundly gifted kids that include "needs less sleep."  Makes me wonder if it's a chicken and egg thing.  e.g. maybe it's not that wakefulness is a sign/symptom of giftedness so much as that it creates the opportunity to learn substantially more in the same number of days, months, years, etc.[/quote]

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