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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP coming to add one last thing. Another reason for testing is that I was semi-hopeful (eternal optimist) that maybe if we came armed with test results and actual data that our school might consider they aren't meeting the needs of all learners (including our child, but I know there are others!). Still hopeful, but also trying to be realistic. [/quote]

I very much doubt this would happen.  Your child is not the first time they have had a kid who is talented at math.

I would very strongly not recommend Inspired Teaching, as there is very little math differentiation at all and it just doesn't feel like a priority.  Not just this year but every year starting in K it has felt that way to me.

I would take a very good look at Seaton, their math MGP is impressive and I hear great things from people I know with math-loving kids.[/quote]

Yup, we are at Seaton and our math-loving kid is doing great! They are departmentalized (so each year, one teacher is a literacy expert and one is a math expert), the math teacher knows the precise level of each kid and is constantly trying to push their personal limit. Very happy.

We also do a lot of stuff in the house... instrument lessons (music is wonderful for kids who are good at math --- so much thinking about proportions within the scales, dividing up the measures, etc), math board games, projects that involve math.

Me and my husband were always great math students who went to regular schools, and both our parents had a lot of math enrichment in the home. i also remember regular elementary school math is being extremely boring, but loving the math projects i did in the gifted pull-out, and the math olympiad competition. If you have a gifted kid, you are going to have to assume that regular school will be a breeze for them, and lead them to enrichment opportunities as much as possible.

(and i'm not going to lame you for the IQ thing! it helps to figure out what your kid will need. i haven't tested our kids, but i have been tested at high 147 and i do think about it. maybe the kids are there too. it's highly obnoxious to even think about, and my husband forbids all discussion of it bc he thinks IQ is really flawed, but there are specific concerns with each level.)[/quote]

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