My son (year 1) doing year 3 maths curriculum

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Please see this thread for background story.
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My son finnished year 1 maths within a month. Then they started him on year 2 maths, and he finnished the whole book by Christmas. They let him set his pace, supervised by the teacher, but they dont send the book home with him for homework.

They have now started him on year 3s maths. He is still making progress, and is cracking on. They are uncertain what to do.

I am uncertain what to do. He is so keen on anything mathematical, and is at the moment really pondering currency and exchange rates. He is very excited about the idea of taking 100 norwegian krone, to buy 10 pounds. And then to travel to Mongolia, and exchange to local currency, and how much he is getting there, and so to India, etc.

We are trying to challenge him at home, with microscopes, and telescopes, violin lessons and tae kwon do classes. But he claims "I dont learn anything in school".

How old is he, when you say Yr3, you mean English Yr3 or Norwegian Yr3?

Norwegian year 3. They start school at 6. They dont have reception. Last year of Preschol is geared towards starting shool.

He is 6 1/2.

At first I was not concerned because I knew that he had startes school in London aged 4, so was going over old ground, but I have seen the year 2 maths book, and the second half was new ground. I thought he would slow down when he reached new material. But he hasnt.

To be honest I expect most 6yo claim they don't learn anything at school!

I think it would be wise to try and get him into the Yr 3 class next year (you;re other thread said he was in a mixed 1/2 class?) So when the 2's go up, he goes too.
Just keep challenging him - I like the currency experiment! Sounds like he could grow up to be a trader!

So he's 6.5yo but doing the maths work most the other children won't usually see until ~8.5yo?
And in a self-directed way, mostly working independently out of a textbook (wow !).
How is he doing academically in other respects, what I mean is, most children might excel in one subject but would only slog along in something else (if only socially), or is he high-ability across the board? If he's slogging at other stuff then it makes sense to let him ease off on the maths and work at the other stuff, but if he's racing ahead of virtually all his peers in all areas...

I haven't a flippin' clue what you do, but maybe parents on the G+T board (if you dare to poke your nose in there on MN, else find other websites on Internet which are less biased against the G+T concept) have helpful relative experience.

I did actually speak to the teacher about it. She said he was doing very well academically, and they are considering it. However, he has a problem with abstract thinking in Norwegian, which is holding him back. Since I spoke to her, they have increased his reading homeworks, and he has two books. One new from something equivalent to the ORT, and One big book, with over hundred and fifty pages. It has taken him two weeks, where he has read aloud to me every evening. But reading is one thing, comprehension another. And I guess only staying here and watching tv, reading books and papers and talking daily will help his language and abstract thinking skills IN norwegian, not english.

How can I encourage abstract thinking ?

lljkk
he likes to write, and will write small stories, and letters to his friends. He draws cartoon stories, neatly in squares. He does lego construction on his own, age group 12/14. He loves constructions. He also loves making instructions, and drawing instructions for something his had made in lego from his imagination. His violin teacher says that he is learning quickly, and she is impressed that he has started writing out the relevant notes on top of his music sheet (a d e fizz etc). The problem seems to be that he is lacking concepts and his comprehension in norwegian can be quite basic, compared to in English, which he spoke till April. (He spoke only norwegian till he was 3, then he swapped, and spoke just about only english till last april)

Thanks apostrophe! I think that is one of my worries, that he will stop applying himself.

But we are giving him multiple sums for fun, such as 10 + 30 + 90 +90 - 45 to complete in his head (without pen and paper), and that amuses him.

I will check out that website.

I think your son is fortunate the school are actively trying to teach him maths at the level he is on

My son is in year 2 and can easily cope with year 4 work - He gets 30 mins one to one a week (because he has aspergers) - and thats about it

He is bored most days tbh - a difficult situation for everyone really

apostrophe, I fear I dont grasp that myself! I am printing it out for a project for him and dh. They are working on an "discover electrics" project kit this morning.