Special Education
Gifted Education - A Resource Guide for Teachers
Michael
Michael is nine years old. His performance on academic tasks that require verbal ability is considerably above average, but his grades in math are in the average to low average range. Recently when two psychology majors from a nearby university were observing Michael in class, they discovered that he had two imaginary people do his math -- Mr. X and Mr. Y. Mr. X did the work in the traditional way while Mr. Y tried different approaches to answering the questions. the teacher reports that she has only seen the work of Mr. X who frequently has incorrect answers although an analysis of the errors reveals that errors are due to minor mistakes in computation. Is Michael gifted?
