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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Two of my kids were two grades ahead and one was a year ahead. We did nothing. Some kids just are naturally good at it and others are naturally good at other things. [/quote] This makes no sense to me. If your kid is just doing math at school and nothing else, and they all follow the grade level curriculum, then they would stay at that level because they wouldn’t be exposed to harder math concepts and problems. They must get it from somewhere, either an online program, workbooks. If school offers different levels of math, then that’s not doing nothing imo. [/quote] Depending on the grade, a lot can be self taught. A kid will learn to add and subtract two digit numbers in 1st grade. If they can extrapolate that to 6 digit numbers, then they're doing work several grade levels ahead. Early elementary school kids who learn their multiplication facts end up ahead too. There are a few other basic skills kids need (e.g., what is a decimal, how to convert fractions to mixed numbers or reduce a fraction), but they they can probably figure out a lot of other elementary math from those few concepts. For instance, deducing how to calculate perimeter of a rectangle isn't rocket science. It does take more to be ahead by late elementary school because the work gets harder. But it's not impossible in early elementary at all.[/quote]
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