Does anyone else's child just know maths answers? Ds is reaching the end of reception. His maths is ok, not as strong as his reading (he can read Harry Potter, The Hobbit etc). His report said that he exceeded expectations. He picks up concepts easily but we haven't done much at home and at school they have focused mainly on phonics. He has done doubling and halving at school and can do that confidently (eg. he worked out that 32 was half of 64 so he was half way through a book).
Then there is the wierd stuff. I have NC as this could out me with his teachers! Sitting in the back of the car, randomly announces that if he was a cat he would be 35 (dd1 is cat crazy so he would know that 7 cat years approximates to one human year). Coming down for breakfast he sees on the microwave that it is 7.00 and announces that means that they can each (3 children) watch 30 minutes of TV before we have to leave at 8.30 (I haven't taught him to tell the time). Talking about years says that he will be dead by the year 3000, I say yes, but he might make it to 2100, he says yes I will be 91 (born in 2009) - ok so he will turn 91 in 2100, but we didn't specify the date.
Each time that this happens he denies having worked it out. He just 'knows it'. If I ask him directly what 7x5 is then he can work it out (I can see him doing it from his face), but he doesn't know it. I realise that it could be chance, but when he does this 'thing' it is always out of the blue and he is always right first time and without apparently working it out. I realise that the calculations aren't tricky for a competent 9/10 yr old, but it is the apparent lack of calculating that seems wierd, and that if given them as a straight maths equation he would work them out. He could be planning these events - certainly with the cat age, but the other two seemed completely spontaneous. Other than being ahead of his peers he seems to be developing normally. He doesn't seem to be on the autistic spectrum. Anyone had any experience with this sort of thing?
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mrswormwood · 03/08/2015 07:03
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