Advice for my math prodigy son

ProfessorZ
Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:11:56 +0000

Thanks, folks. Some good thoughts here. I think I will go the route I am going w/added testing, and eventual college courses. You would think from this list that more than 1% of the world had a 135+ IQ. Considering he has already passed the California Assesment math exam (even w/ my printing off only less than half the questions) I wonder if college courses will hold him. 9 now and doing geometry and linear algebra makes me wonder. He will, at this rate, need college level calculus at 13 and be done w/all our upper division college math by 15 or 16. Verbal questions are interesting. His vocab is off the charts–but not a gifted writer. Does anyone think I should start him on computer programming? I take notice of the conceptual ideology, and agree that will come less easily for him. It makes me wonder about the need to bring in computers for a realistic career path. He is definitely a calculating sort, as people have proffered.