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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Which would show gifted at math: Child who know multiplication facts? Child who could add 3 digit numbers quickly in his head? [/quote] The 2nd one. The 1st one is just a good mimic.[/quote] Or neither. Some kids can just add fast. But a kid who comes up with a new way to solve complex problems that the teachers have never thought of ... there's a gift there, I think. My math teacher Aunt says some of the most gifted math students she had struggled to past the fast facts tests (not that they didn't know the facts, but they weren't very fast at spitting them back out), but their understanding of math concepts and ability to do complex problem solving was out of this world. Understanding and figuring out proofs without being formally introduced to them, just because "it made sense." That is the gift.[/quote]
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