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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Really bright kids don’t need to be told to make up math problems in their free time. Kids whose parents want them to appear bright to their teachers do this, though. [/quote]

Phew, I wasn’t expecting this tidbit to come in handy, but I thought of it when DC2 on his own decided to do multiplication in fog on the shower door. 
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Joke all you want - telling your kid to make up math problems in his spare time at school is an obvious way to try to make sure the teacher see your kid is smart. And if the teacher missed it, I’m sure the op would mention at conferences and in the aap application that her kid makes up math problems in his spare time at school. I’m a former teacher. We did a project with real pumpkin seeds for kindergarteners one year. It dealt with counting by 2s with partners. We then worked with tally marks to count by fives the total number of seeds in the class.  The last question the kids did on their own was what would you do with all these seeds if you could keep them.  One boy scribbled that there were enough seeds for everyone to get 5 and the leftover four would go to the two teachers. (His one sentence showed he was dividing a three digit number that had a remainders. If you say to other kids to just work on math when you’re done, most kindergarters would have something far simpler. [/quote]

You seemed really fixated on this point. I’m OP and a former teacher too.  And I don’t think it’s relevant but the older one was the one doing it on his own accord and when I realized that, I thought, sure great idea, and in passing having learned the idea from him, thrown it out in a list of ideas such as: read, write, draw, or math rather than talking to friends when done with work to HELP the teacher if the teacher ever in passing said one of them was being a little chatty from time to time.  And not sure it’s relevant but I don’t bring it up at conferences and to date haven’t done a parent referral for AAP. [/quote]

Sure, lady, sure. [/quote]

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