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Your 5-year-old points out from reading the labels, that two pills of the very expensive children's Motrin is the same dosage as a single pill of the very cheap generic ibuprofen the rest of the family uses. I double-checked with our doctor (who wasn't at all surprised that Cheetah figured this out), and she's right, it's the same dosage. "See Mom?  I saved you money!"

Your 6-year-old's preferred waiting-for-restaurant-service activity is sweetener packet binary math. Sugars (white packets) are 0's (because white has zero color, of course), and blue (or pink) packets are 1's, and then I have to calculate the binary value (she's always up to the 1024's place so far) and see if it matches her calculation.

Your 7-year-old begs for a new book, with just Romeo and Juliet, because she can't carry the Complete Illustrated Works of Shakespeare volume around (about 10 pounds!).  But it has to be the original text. 
     So you sit on the floor of the bookstore, reviewing different books of Romeo and Juliet with her, all original text.  First, she finds an error in one of the books... it's missing a key word in a narrative.  She picks another, with a modern translation on the opposite page.  And that's what she buys with her bookstore Christmas gift card...
     And this is the kid who would barely read chapter books a year ago!

Your three-year-old gets a new desk, and shyly asks if it comes "complete." "Complete?" "You know, mom, with a computer!"

Your 15-year-old follows you outside to talk to you in private, and checks that no one else is around, then starts jumping up and down and screeching!  Why?  Because it's a few days before she leaves for college, and she just found out that her faculty advisor is also teaching her Calculus III course, AND doing research on P-adic numbers systems!!!! -- Carolyn "what kind of number systems?" K.

At lunch at a semi-fast-food restaurant, my 14-year-old commented that the new cornbread isn't as good as the old cornbread.  I pointed out that it seems to be the same recipe, just a different shape.  That's the problem, she pointed out - it's got more surface area but less volume than it used to.  And she proceeded to set the volumes equal, and calculate the surface area of the old brick-shaped cornbread vs. the surface area of the new semi-spherical cornbread...  Isn't this how all young teens spend their lunch hours?? -- again, Carolyn K.

As you drive down the interstate on the way to find a theater still playing Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, your husband laughs and comments, "I used to drive a hearse (we all slept in the car) but now I'm driving a computer center!"  Let's see, there's his and my Dells - the 10-year-old has commandeered his Dell since he's driving - and our 14-year-old is on her new Toshiba laptop - she's writing a DBQ for AP European History.  So far, so good, but there's going to be trouble when the batteries run down.  There's only one cigarette lighter!

Your 14-year-old gets her high school year book, and shows it to you, commenting "You know you're a nerd when one of your friends signs your yearbook in 4 languages!"

Your 13-year-old volunteers at her candidate-of-choice's booth at a local polling place on election day, and the night before, comes up with a plan to prevent frivolous voting: She decides that there ought to be a quiz at the polling place. Anyone can vote, but you must give one reason why you are voting for the candidate, and it can't be "because my husband/wife is, " "because he's {party of choice}," or "because the phone calls tell me I should." You need one actual reason - he's for this, against that, will change this... Otherwise, boot - you don't get to vote.

You've been told to apply to CTY and DITD for their YS program... confused yet?

Did your child take the CogAT, the OLSAT or the WISC-IV?

Is your friend telling you about her DD or DS or DH?  Does she HTH?  Or tell you YMMV?

All the Acronyms and Terms you need to know in gifted education!

The 24 Game start with the Add / Subtract Primer or Multiply / Divide Primer versions, then move up to Single Digits and beyond!

Math Shark quizzes kids on +-*/ , fraction, decimals, or percentages with eight skill levels in each category

Schoolhouse Rock! Special 30th Anniversary Edition - DVD collection featuring ALL the Schoolhouse Rock videos

FlashMaster by FlashMaster, Inc. Replaces flash cards for +-*/ facts. Optional timer, sounds. Run missed problems, change problem format, put the "variable" in any position. Fun for all, even 2e... PC Magazine review

Quarter Mile Math Math practice software...

4 Way Countdown Practice +-*/ skills by using the numbers on the dice. The first to flip over all 10 numbered keys wins this board game...

Times Tables the Fun Way! pictorial method of learning the multiplication facts (also Addition the Fun Way!)

Gifted 101: A Guide for First Time Visitors

Gifted 102: The Next Steps

An Adventure in Number Sense There are only 13 facts to memorize

Math Games Space Shuttle, Math Tunnel Blaster (+ - × ÷), more...

Mathgym! Mathgym Arcade: multiplication invaders!

Multiplication.com Interactive internet, classroom and computer games...

Multiplying on Fingers How to do 6x6 through 9x9 on your fingers!

Underachievement from the Inside Out

Giftedness and Academic Underachievement: What lies beneath

Gifted underachievement: oxymoron or educational enigma?

The Miseducation of Our Gifted Children

Motivational Paralysis Use Caveney's flowchart of underachievement to locate yourself in the process, and STOP!

Overcoming Underachievement

The Galaxy Song Flash animation of the Eric Idle classic, seen in The Meaning of Life..., in Kids & Teens: Space

The Elements animation of Tom Lehrer's song..., in Kids & Teens Science: Periodic Table

The Elements, in You Know You're the Parent of a Gifted Child When...

Developing Mathematical Talent: They Don't Have to Be Bored to Tears

Gifted Education Professional Development Package

Introduction to Gifted Education - What you must know to affect change

Eide Neurolearning Blog commentary on learning, learning differences and disabilities, including gifted and visual learners, autism, dyslexia, attention deficit disorders, sensory, visual, or auditory processing difficulties and more...

Gifted Children Information Blog by Carol Fertig, Prufrock Press

Gifted Exchange by Laura Vanderkam, co-author of Genius Denied: How to Stop Wasting Our Brightest Young Minds

Unwrapping the Gifted K-12 gifted education specialist Tamara Fisher discusses news and developments, and offers advice for gifted teachers.  An EdWeek blog...

From GAI to SEM...

From WISC to SB...

From CTY to CTD to TIP...

Plus DD (and DH, DS, DW) to YMMV and HTH

All the Acronyms and Terms you need to know in gifted education!

Distinguishing Myths From Realities: NRC/GT Research

All Children Are Gifted and A Response to the "All Children are Gifted" Comment

Using Current Research to Make Good Decisions About Grouping

The Tracking and Ability Grouping Debate

Recounting Multiple Intelligences

What Do the Tests Tell Us?

Why should I have my child tested?

Why do my child's test scores vary from test to test?

What is Highly Gifted? Exceptionally Gifted? Profoundly Gifted? And What Does It Mean?

An Inventory of Tests look here for the tests your kids have taken

The 24 Game

Apples to Apples, Apple Crate Edition

Life of Fred

Michael Clay Thompson Language Arts Curriculum

Being Smart About Gifted Children: A Guidebook For Parents And Educators

A Parent's Guide to Gifted Children

Spotlight on 2e Booklets

Ask and Muse and Kids Discover and Scientific American Mind magazines

Achievement Trap: How America Is Failing Millions of High-Achieving Students from Lower-Income Families

Are you Quick Smart or Multiple Thought Impaired? (The Positives of having ADD)

Competing with myths about the social and emotional development of gifted students

The effects of acceleration on the social and emotional development of gifted students

Motivational Paralysis

Optimum Intelligence: My Experience as a Too Gifted Adult...

Radical acceleration and early entry to college: A review of the research

Gifted in Middle School

Gifted Adolescents

Early College Entrance Programs

(Early) College Planning and Success Stories

Depression and Suicide

Identification

Testing and Assessment

Brain Research and Learning Theories

From the Saddest Sounds to the D Major Chord

Academic Acceleration

Should we tell them they're gifted? Should we tell them how gifted?

Young Gifted Children

Reading Levels of Children's Books: How Can You Tell?

Hoagies' Hot Topics Reading List: Early Readers

Early (or Late) Kindergarten

Small poppies: Highly gifted children in the early years

Motivational Paralysis