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[quote=Anonymous]Hate to say it, but his package likely came across as that of a really prepped kid.  I would definitely recommend submitting a WISC (from GMU), along with different samples from school that showcases his strengths.  I would absolutely not submit any more material from home, as it likely will make the whole thing seem more suspicious.

FWIW, my daughter, when she was in 2nd grade, was doing pretty much everything you mentioned your child doing (multiplication of large numbers, long division, fractions, Elementary algebra, Fibonacci series, fractions, exponents, etc.), but it’s basically because she is a curious and hard working kid who always wants to explore concepts older kids are working on, and not because she’s any kind of extra special snowflake.

I will give you an example of a child I consider gifted in math (friend’s daughter).  When she was 3 or 4, she asked her mom from the back seat of the car, what the sum of all the numbers from 1-10 was.  Mom said she didn’t know, but they can figure it out after they got home.  A short while later, she announced, 55! Mom was surprised and asked her how she did it, and she said that she just added 1 and 9, and 2 and 8, and so on.  That is pretty advanced thinking.  Said little girl ended up getting grade skipped, which FCPS very, very much does not want to do.[/quote]

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