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Re: How do you handle a child whose parents has pushed the child ahead?
Posted:
Nov 21, 2000 12:41 PM
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I agree with Sam, but it might also work to give the student long-term
or short-term projects that might motivate him. He could work on the
project whenever he's done with his homework and he could show the
class his results. Project assignments make it easier for the teacher
too, so that s/he is not trying to find something for this student
every day. How about the four 4's problem? (Use only four 4's and
mathematical symbols to represent the numbers 1 to 100. e.g., 8 =
(4+4) x 4/4. He could use exponents, square roots, whatever fancy
stuff he has learned from dad, as long as the only numbers used
are 4's.) Try to find projects that deal with the same math topics as
the unit the class is working on.
Also, see Ask an Author for the recent response on how to challenge
the gifted child.
It is great that this father likes to do math with his son, but I
would ask him to re-think what kinds of math to do at home. If he
continues year after year to teach his son the content in the next
grade level, his son will continue to be bored in class-- you can only
expect so much from a teacher to modify things for one child. Maybe
the father doesn't know what else to do with his son, and would
appreciate names of resources he could use that would push his son
horizontally, not vertically -- that wouldn't just teach his son the
content in the next grade level. Again, see Ask an Author-- both the
gifted child response and the "more homework" response.
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