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Math - Khan Academy has it mapped out all the way to calculus - Simon can go as fast and far as he wants if that approach interests him. Music - I assume he is
by mswen 10y ago
Math - Khan Academy has it mapped out all the way to calculus - Simon can go as fast and far as he wants if that approach interests him.
Music - I assume he is taking lessons - keep doing that and maybe get him exposed to someone that teaches music theory and composition as well as piano. Or, just encourage him to continue on his own in music. Not everything has to be turned into 'school'.
Make sure he has access to lots of good books. Take him on trips to a well stocked library and introduce him to various non-fiction sections. In pre-internet days, when I was a kid, I got to the point where my mom would take me to the public library once a week and I would come home with a stack of 5 to 10 books (majority fiction, but not all of them) and I would have read them all by the next week. My reading addiction was helped by the fact that my parents decided not to have television in the house until us kids moved away as young adults (oh the abuse we suffered! Maybe not.)
Make sure he has his own computer and access to the internet. Introduce him to Wikipedia.
If he has an interest in programming help him get over the starting gate by setting up his environment and walking him through some first lessons then take a more back seat and let him go.
Academically - try to get him situated in a school that has some experience working with gifted children.
- ahazred8ta 10y agoMensa. The bigger the city, the better their youth resources are. http://chicago.us.mensa.org/kids/gifted_kids.php http://chicago.us.mensa.org/kids/gifted_kids.php