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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I want to know more about the testing performed to determine math level.  It is possible that the child's mom misunderstood what the Grade Level Equivalent rating meant?  It generally means that the child performed as well as the average 5th grader on material presented at the child's grade level (i.e. K or pre-K), and not that the child performed as well as 5th graders on a test covering 5th grade level materials.

For the child to be at a 5th grade level, the child would need to know decimals and decimal operations, fractions and fraction operations, long division, measurements and conversions, application of math to word problems, some amount of variables, and so on.  There's no way a non reading child just plucked all of that out of thin air.  [/quote]

They could from apps and tv/videos but they aren't doing what OP thinks they are.  They may know facts from apps/videos but that is memorization not use.[/quote]

It’s possible the child is gifted or at least has some inclination towards math. From one test alone I wouldn’t conclude he is a prodigy and it’s not even clear what it even means to be at 5th grade level. I hear a lot of stories on how kids discover multiplication in their own in preschool etc. while it’s a good sign, it  depends, it could be information memorized from other sources. If it was out of the blue, a total surprise that he is good at math, and the parents were completely unaware, then find a good curriculum to follow and review these concepts, make sure there’s a solid understanding and go from there. I’d find the story really strange and hard to believe, but I want to give the op the benefit of the doubt.[/quote]

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