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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When talking about young kids in particular, I think it's important to understand the difference between a kid who can do some math that's 2 years ahead, and a kid who is 2 years ahead in math across the board.

Bright kids who are interested in math and understand it intuitively, and who don't have outside instruction, are going to develop skills very unevenly.  There are things that they'll figure out for themselves, or pick up from the environment years before they encounter them in the curriculum.  But it's very unlikely that they will pick up all skills in the same sequence in which they're taught.

For example, I once knew a kid who was, for whatever reason, very curious about clocks.  By age 4, they could tell time to the minute, which is a third grade skill.  The same kid was very into the game of monopoly and learned to count combinations of bills, and to understand place value well enough that they could add and subtract multidigit numbers.  But there were plenty of other math topics that didn't catch the kid's interest, and so the kid didn't know them.  They didn't recognize a division sign, or understand fractions at all or know what the word quadrilateral meant.  So, while they had some second and third grade level skills, and those skills were an indication of promise and potential in math, it wouldn't have been accurate to say they were 3 years ahead.  [/quote]

True.   I have to believe that people who say their kid is two years ahead understands that.  [/quote]

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