Anonymous
Post 01/23/2013 22:05     Subject: Who on here believes his/her child is truly gifted?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My son is gifted in math and science


How do you define his giftedness?


No definition, just some observations. The teacher said he learned the regrouping of addition with one explanation and applied the concept to numbers up to a million. He did mental addition and subtraction up to hundreds before anybody had paid attention to his ability. After the teacher explained multiplication concept for a few minutes, he could deduct and got answers to up to 12x12 without memorizing anything. When he was in Kindergarten he was quite average cause he was slow in reading and communication. But once he got in first grade, all of sudden he showed great gift in learning math. For science, he usually asks many many questions about things, and once in a few days he forms his own idea about how things are formed. He has tried some small experiments to prove his ideas. Sometimes they are silly but still amazing.
Of course he has his problems - he got in trouble frequently... he played with his pencil box during a test and did not even write a word; he got in play fights with other boys; he kept talking to other kids when the teacher was teaching; he more than often did not pay attention to the teacher or did not read instructions when doing school work, etc etc...
His NNAT was only 135 cause he missed a page. We are hoping that he did not miss any pages for CogAT... BTW, after the CogAT test or the NNAT, he came home retelling many of the questions
I feel that he is gifted, but could be just talented as his NNAT is only 135...


Why would you assume that he missed a page?
Anonymous
Post 01/23/2013 22:02     Subject: Who on here believes his/her child is truly gifted?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My son is gifted in math and science


How do you define his giftedness?


No definition, just some observations. The teacher said he learned the regrouping of addition with one explanation and applied the concept to numbers up to a million. He did mental addition and subtraction up to hundreds before anybody had paid attention to his ability. After the teacher explained multiplication concept for a few minutes, he could deduct and got answers to up to 12x12 without memorizing anything. When he was in Kindergarten he was quite average cause he was slow in reading and communication. But once he got in first grade, all of sudden he showed great gift in learning math. For science, he usually asks many many questions about things, and once in a few days he forms his own idea about how things are formed. He has tried some small experiments to prove his ideas. Sometimes they are silly but still amazing.
Of course he has his problems - he got in trouble frequently... he played with his pencil box during a test and did not even write a word; he got in play fights with other boys; he kept talking to other kids when the teacher was teaching; he more than often did not pay attention to the teacher or did not read instructions when doing school work, etc etc...
His NNAT was only 135 cause he missed a page. We are hoping that he did not miss any pages for CogAT... BTW, after the CogAT test or the NNAT, he came home retelling many of the questions
I feel that he is gifted, but could be just talented as his NNAT is only 135...
Anonymous
Post 01/23/2013 21:47     Subject: Who on here believes his/her child is truly gifted?
Yes. One has a WISC IV of 148, and the other 144. If you would prefer the exact terminology, we could call them "very superior" instead.
Anonymous
Post 01/23/2013 21:45     Subject: Who on here believes his/her child is truly gifted?
Three kids. One is gifted.
Anonymous
Post 01/23/2013 21:42     Subject: Re:Who on here believes his/her child is truly gifted?
No. Scores in the 98-99th percentile on things like PSATs and SATs, is smart, but not what I would consider gifted.
Anonymous
Post 01/23/2013 21:38     Subject: Re:Who on here believes his/her child is truly gifted?
Yes -- one of mine is.
Anonymous
Post 01/23/2013 21:34     Subject: Who on here believes his/her child is truly gifted?
Yes, but he is a so-so student. He tests remarkably well. People have told us since he was about 4 that he talks like an adult or much older child. Our other kids aren't like this.
Anonymous
Post 01/23/2013 21:33     Subject: Who on here believes his/her child is truly gifted?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The comments are so snarky sometimes. It is all anonymous....do you really believe your child is gifted? A simple one word answer is all that is needed.


Every kid is gifted


Yeah, Adam L. was no doubt gifted.
Anonymous
Post 01/23/2013 21:29     Subject: Who on here believes his/her child is truly gifted?
Anonymous wrote:My son is gifted in math and science


How do you define his giftedness?
Anonymous
Post 01/23/2013 21:29     Subject: Re:Who on here believes his/her child is truly gifted?
Yes, I do, because DH and I were both in gifted programs and have genius-level IQs. Intelligence is highly heritable, and DD appears to have inherited it.
Anonymous
Post 01/23/2013 21:27     Subject: Who on here believes his/her child is truly gifted?
My son is gifted in math and science
Anonymous
Post 01/23/2013 21:23     Subject: Who on here believes his/her child is truly gifted?
We do live in Lake Wobegone, don't we?
Anonymous
Post 01/23/2013 21:04     Subject: Who on here believes his/her child is truly gifted?
Mine is
Anonymous
Post 01/23/2013 21:04     Subject: Who on here believes his/her child is truly gifted?
Anonymous wrote:The comments are so snarky sometimes. It is all anonymous....do you really believe your child is gifted? A simple one word answer is all that is needed.


Every kid is gifted
Anonymous
Post 01/23/2013 20:57     Subject: Who on here believes his/her child is truly gifted?
The comments are so snarky sometimes. It is all anonymous....do you really believe your child is gifted? A simple one word answer is all that is needed.