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the answer is quite simple...HOMESHOOL the kid. Proud Dad of a kid who scored 1600 on the SAT, 36 on the SAT, graduated with honors from college in Computer Engineering with minors in Political Science and English at the ripe old age of 20. (he finished HS at 14 and hung around the house doing advanced courses). He was homeschooled the entire time...NEVER spent a day in public schools...
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We got his Stanford achievement tests back from his school last night. He scored Avg, Avg High, or High in everything except Enviroment and History (which neither is taught until 2nd grade at our school)...but in the Math Part he knocked the ceiling off...In Math Procedures he scored in the 90th percentile and in Math Computations he scored in the 98th percentile and Science the 90th percentile. He got 100% of the questions right in Geometry, Reasoning, Analysis, Stats, and a few other things I can't remember. I know he only missed 2 questions in the Math Computations part of the exam. The headmaster talked to us about it and said he had seen many kids score very high at different things and the get bored over the next few years and lose some of their abilities. He said alot falls into the parents hands at keeping their kids motivated and challenged when it comes to those subjects that some kids naturally excel at. My question is...what can we do as parents to challenge him and keep him interested in Math/Science? We already saw a touch of the boredom this year...His teacher said she would get frustrated with him b/c he wouldn't work his math tests or worksheets, and would talk the whole time while other kids were working (rude-I know) ...when she would ask for the papers he would then jot all the answers down and turn it in...He had a 99.98 avg in math so it didn't hurt him to do it. How can we keep him interested?
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The worksheets he likes are those that have a purpose behind it...like find the answer, match the number to a letter, to spell a word, to find the answer to another question. Those and geometric and basic algebra type reasoning stuff...he hates the worksheets that have 22+25=_____. I love the real world application stuff. Those are GREAT ideas.
My question is...what can we do as parents to challenge him and keep him interested in Math/Science? We already saw a touch of the boredom this year...His teacher said she would get frustrated with him b/c he wouldn't work his math tests or worksheets, and would talk the whole time while other kids were working (rude-I know) ...when she would ask for the papers he would then jot all the answers down and turn it in...He had a 99.98 avg in math so it didn't hurt him to do it. How can we keep him interested?
the answer is quite simple...HOMESHOOL the kid.
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