<p>Every kid is different, of course. I can tell you that at that age we thought our son might well be a math prodigy. He took the SAT in seventh grade for a talent search and scored 780 in math, 720 in reading. He was an effortless A student in accelerated math throughout elementary, also a prodigious reader. He was obsessed with Guns, Germs and Steel that year, as I recall, and also deeply into Victorian literature. </p>
<p>Anyway, he did really well throughout his academic career but he (and we) discovered that the SAT reasoning test math is not really a reliable indicator of truly outlier math ability. Our son has nothing like the math aptitude of the math concentrators he met when he went to Harvard, for example. It’s just on a different level altogether.</p>
<p>So, certainly, this little girl is exceptionally bright and will need academic challenge along the road. And it may well be that she is a math “genius kid”. There are lots of people on CC who can advise on the right programs for determining that.</p>
<p>I will say that the twin abilities – verbal and math manifesting so early is truly rare and very special, regardless of whether she goes on to be on the Math Olympiad team. That melding of intellectual strengths is powerful, and arguably more valuable in the long run.</p>