Proud Parent

[Ward]

Well i'm definately going to introduce her to sexuality this year. I'm hoping to break the ice with the beginning of that movie, "Look Who's Talking". It's an excellent animation of the fertilization process. If any finds a link to that scene please post it. thanks

You're pathetic

[Kyace]

Deductive logic by Dr Seuss

I'll try not to interupt the sex ed talk, but I just wanted to hop in and mostly agree with Epinephrine's view of the Grade Equivalent. One thing I wanted to add is that generally, according to the Piaget's theory of cognitive development (which generally makes a lot of sense), most 9 year olds are still usually in the concrete stage, while most 11th graders have at least part-way into the formal (abstract) stage. This would be where kids learn stuff like what a hypothetical situation is, or how to make logical deductions.

This is the kind of stuff like stating "All Snazbooms eat only snookberries. All snookberries grow on Mount Trox." then asking questions like "Something is eating a snookberry, is it for sure a snazboom?" or "Something is eating a Bangboppal Fruit, can it be a snazboom?" or "A Snazboom picks a berry off a bush and eats it, is the bush on Mount Trox?" Those are the kinds of questions most 9 year olds will have trouble with but most high schoolers can answer.

However, congrats on your daughter's test scores and the best of luck to her in the future. Her test percentile is impressive, but grade equivalents are generally bunk.

[Facetious]

This is the kind of stuff like stating "All Snazbooms eat only snookberries. All snookberries grow on Mount Trox." then asking questions like "Something is eating a snookberry, is it for sure a snazboom?" or "Something is eating a Bangboppal Fruit, can it be a snazboom?" or "A Snazboom picks a berry off a bush and eats it, is the bush on Mount Trox?" Those are the kinds of questions most 9 year olds will have trouble with but most high schoolers can answer.

If I have a kid and it can't figure that out by age 9 I'll be pretty surprised.

[Kyace]

I took care not to say that 9 year olds couldn't answer it, that they would have trouble with it. You can solve logic problems without using abstract thought, it is just easier with abstract thinking. Venn Diagrams and Truth Tables are basically tools to allow concrete thought about abstract logic ideas. And there is the old standby of guessing and thinking it through, which is more trial and error than abstract problem solving.

[Epinephrine]

If I have a kid and it can't figure that out by age 9 I'll be pretty surprised.

Questions like that are actually on the LSAT.

[Facetious]

Maybe I should take it. If I get a perfect can I get into grad school without an undergrad degree? That'd be tight.

[genocidal]

Except they're way more complicated.