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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ I agree, but there's a weird double standard for math.  If a dad is playing soccer at the field every day with his 3 year old, people think he's an amazing parent.  If parents read to their children every night and force them to do independent reading for an hour each day, that's also great parenting.  If people start private music lessons with their 4 year olds and have them playing their violins every day, their talent is celebrated.  If a parent wants to do 10 minutes of extra math, then it's OMG, Tiger Parent!!!  Stop destroying your child's childhood![/quote]

It’s the using “my kid has a natural talent. I can’t help but make him do math beyond his year and enter him in contest math”

[b]I can always tell when a parent knows deep down it’s not natural talent.[/b] Because they are the ones who stress about keeping the kid ahead. They know deep down as soon as the “enrichment” lets up junior will no longer be ahead in math. Because junior is not some natural maths genius.

Tiger parents know their cub’s achievement has to be advanced for them to look smart. It has to be a 4yo doing large sums or a 8yo learning trigonometry. It cannot be just doing grade level work in a creative and advanced way that shows deep mathematical understanding.

10 minutes of extra math a night is wonderful. Nobody thinks it’s tiger parenting until that parent claims an 8yo is “math gifted” because he scores in the top 2 percentiles of some test that parent prepped the kid for since he was 18 months old. [/quote]
You're wrong. We know deep down it is natural talent. You may find it hard to believe when yours don't have anything close to it. [/quote]
Look at the International Math Olympiad Team USA. It's mostly Asian as well. At the Olympiad level, tiger parenting itself without natural talent is not gonna make it, regardless whether we're talking about math or sports.[/quote]

I agree there is natural talent when it comes to the top performers. But it’s like 90% practice and persistence and preparation (AKA tiger mom element) and then among those kids who do this best the amount of natural talent will then separate the 1st place national winner from the 2nd place etc. These kids (like top basketball players) are practicing the most. Hours and hours a day. That’s at least 90% of the equation.

But. Big but. This is concerning contest math. Which is different than actual math. [/quote]

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