What about a child with wildly differing abilities?

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I've been thinking about my school days, and why specifically I don't want the same for my dds.

One issue, which I'm hoping they have sorted, all the way up to gcse, is that of a single child with different abilities.

Eg a child who is very ahead with trig, algebra, etc, but can't do adding, multiplying etc beyond a very very basic level. Or is very good at one subject so as to be years ahead, but years behind with another?

Is it still so rigid as it was in the nineties? Do kids get held back or pushed forward all at once?

Thanks :-)

I doubt you could get a child who is ahead a trig or algebra but can't add or multiply. If you can't add or multiply then you're going to struggle with most further maths, so you would struggle to prove you could do them.

Do you mean ahead at say French, but struggling in Physics (eg)?
If so it depends on your school. SOme set across the board. Others set certain subjects.

Um, I struggle to multiply without a calculator and add anything more than basic sums without a pen and paper, but I can do trig and algebra...

I was the same - apparently it is part of many specific learning difficulties. You just use a calculator. (I wasn't hugely, hugely ahead, but there was no reason why I couldn't have been in theory) I was speaking to someone in their seventies the other day, and he said that Mathematics and Arithmetic were different subjects at his school - they need a different skill set.