How fast should you accelerate your kid in math?

Re:How fast should you accelerate your kid in math? by icedchai on Saturday July 29, 2023 @08:43PM (#36926473)

Your intuition may be wrong. I know plenty of 80's gifted kids who are burnt out, unemployed, or just coasting through life.

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Re:How fast should you accelerate your kid in math? by woleium on Saturday July 29, 2023 @09:32PM (#36926799)

being gifted is just the start. next you need to get inspired.

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Re:How fast should you accelerate your kid in math? by hgomersall on Sunday July 30, 2023 @02:50AM (#36928555)

I'm minded to think that most education should be focused on the inspiration part. Give the kids intrinsic motivation and the tools to learn.

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Re:How fast should you accelerate your kid in math? by giardini on Sunday July 30, 2023 @02:26PM (#36934376)

I'd rather be a member of a group of uninspired smart people than of a group of inspired dummies.

- (signed)Tired of watching "inspired dumbasses" waste their time, inherited fortunes and other persons' time.

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Re:How fast should you accelerate your kid in math? by woleium on Monday July 31, 2023 @06:11PM (#36949587)

indeed, you need to be gifted first

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Re:How fast should you accelerate your kid in math? by fsckboy on Saturday July 29, 2023 @08:53PM (#36926538)

that doesn't refute that the progress that we've made has come from gifted kids. Not all the gifted salmon make it to swim all the way back up the stream.

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Re:How fast should you accelerate your kid in math? by lelanthran on Sunday July 30, 2023 @06:11AM (#36929645)

Isn't that then wasted talent? AIUI, upthread comments were about putting more resources into the gifted children precisely because we don't want to waste their talent.

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