not good at math? (Outliers/Gadwell)

[burbuja0512]

I think this statement gets to the root of the problem; plus we (as a nation) do not spend enough time studying.

I'm starting to come to some other conclusions about what the problem is..

My 4 year old just started pre-school and already knows how to add and subtract, not to mention read quite a few words and has for a while. However, his pre-school is just barely teaching the kids letters and numbers. It's hard for me to be excited to take my son to school when I think that they're WAY behind what the kids are capable of and they haven't even started school yet! At this point, I take him for the social interaction, but make sure that we work on math, science and reading a little bit every day. There are some pretty cool iPad apps that help with this. My kids can rock an iPad and it seems to supplement my teaching very nicely. My 2 year old has even started with addition and subtraction and knows all of her letters in English and Spanish.

So, based on what I've seen with my little ones, they're either totally brilliant above and beyond their age, or we start off a little behind and probably don't ever catch up.