Math for Gifted Students
Professor Mahesh Sharma
An intensive week-long course.
June 2026
For gifted students, age 4-13.
Students will achieve next-level understanding and the prerequisite skills for independent performance in advanced mathematics.
Language and conceptual schema of number.
Number Concept + Additive Reasoning
Multiplicative Reasoning
Proportional Reasoning Group
If have language + number concept + proportional reasoning --> advance to Algebraic Reasoning Group
Conceptually 5-years-old
Grades 4 to 7
Hypothetical reasoning
Hyperbole
Mia, a gifted 4th grader, found that 104 is the number of squares of square numbers, which are square numbers. She found all of them.
Mia and her brother are both gifted in pattern recognition.
Grades 7 to 8
Student demonstrates the performance of skills at a formal higher level of thinking.