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klbsmom
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Posted: Nov 03 2006 at 12:57pm \| IP Logged

I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction to
find resources for my son. I believe he might be gifted in math but
I'm not even sure how to find out if he actually is. I started my son
who is 6 on a first grade math curriculum a couple of months ago.
Within the first week it was pretty much thrown aside because he was
bored with the repition of things. He either picks up math concepts
by figuring it out on his own or by being just told once how to do
something. He figured out how to add, subtract, work with money,
decipher odd and even numbers, skip count all on his own. Since we
got rid of the math curriculum, I'm afraid to admit, we have never
sat down and done math until about a week ago. Even this past week,
the only time we have done math is when he has asked me about a
certain concept. I'll explain it to him for about 5-10 minutes and
then he has it down. Within the past week he has gone from adding
and subtraction two/three digit numbers with remainders to
multiplying. He's figuring out math concepts faster then I can figure
out what he needs to learn:) I guess I'm worried that he might be
missing some basic step somewhere that will come and haunt him
later. I was wondering if I should push him further or, since he is
only six, allow him to just keep coming to me and asking me about new
concepts. Does anyone know of a curriculum out there that moves at a
fast pace or should I even start using one? I think the more I ask
questions, the more I have

Sorry about the long post

Thanks - Tina

Leonie
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Posted: Nov 03 2006 at 11:02pm \| IP Logged

My eldest son, Luke, was like this. We basically kept finding interesting maths books and activities for him and when he was about age 8 he started to use a grade 6 maths workbook. For fun.

I think some chidlren really do think mathematically and we can act as a resource for these dc.

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krgammel
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Posted: Nov 03 2006 at 11:47pm \| IP Logged

My son was like that as well. I finally ordered Math U See and my only regret is that I didn't do it sooner. Even though he knew how to do so much of it, he didn't know why he was doing it!

I love
Math U See!

+Kristen

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Posted: Nov 04 2006 at 8:09am \| IP Logged

My oldest son loves math and it came really easily for him. We began with Saxon 3 in 1st grade which he flew through. We tried the next level and just gave him the tests which he flew through. Not wanting to sprint so far ahead in math and having a 2nd grader facing hardback textbooks rather than workbooks (this was almost a decade ago they probably have workbooks for those ages now) we took over 2 years "off" in math.

It worked well for us because he could focus his time on weaker subject areas. For math, I had him do things like the 3 figural books of the Building Thinking Skills series, logic puzzle books, mazes, etc. We also went through the entire series of Maps/Charts/Graphs books.

He is now almost 13 and is finishing up Saxon Algebra II and is still loving math!

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