Edit: First and foremost, my child is an avid reader and she reads a ton at home. We hardly do any math at home, I just try to think of a new concept for her to learn and challenger her to learn whatever advanced concept (for her age) that I think of. I do this every few months, she’s not slaving over workbooks or equations at home; she really is a completely normal child.
I’ve posted about my daughter before, over the last year or so. She’s an amazing kid; she’s compassionate and thoughtful, she cares about others and has hobbies and interests, plenty of friends, etc. She’s “normal” by all standards. She’s serious about taekwondo and works very hard at it; she has been very focused on that even from a very young age when she started, and verbalizes that she wants to be great. The last two years she has won gold in sparring and patterns at our federation’s national tournaments and we just went to Canada where she won there as well. She’s just a well rounded child that we’re very proud of.
But she’s…a little too smart for her own good. I challenge her at home when it comes to math, because I too always enjoyed math and learning how things like decimals/fractions/money/percentages intertwined so that I can use my knowledge of X to more easily understand and figure out Y and Z.
She’s insanely gifted with math. I was able to teach her, and very easily, to solve a three-equation setup with three variables when she was 8, and she did it in her head. And this was the day after I first tried to get her to simply “solve for X” with basic algebraic equations (very easy for her, I show her how to do it once and she nails it). She came back 1-2 minutes later and told me what that values for all three variable were, all in her head.
My main question is, what extracurricular programs or workbooks or whatever, did you guys use to keep pushing your child’s abilities in math? At times it can be hard for me to even remember to keep on trying to “see what she’s capable of”. I’m attaching her recent test scores from the state mandated testing this year (her 3rd grade year). Any and all recommendations are appreciated.