Teachers of Reddit? What is your, this student is so smart, it's scary story?

One of my kindergartners just knows multiplication, and not just the basics fives or tens.

In the beginning, when his parents told me, I played along with two times two or ten times ten, but you can tell him 17 times 14, and he knows it instantly. So cool to watch.

I was doing a 500-piece puzzle with some kids. I was a preschool teacher. We finished the puzzle

except for one piece, which was nowhere to be found. Kid comes in, takes one look at the puzzle on

the table and says, oh, you're missing that? I know where it is. Reaches into a completely different 500 piece

puzzle, rummages for like 10 seconds, pulls the piece out and fits it in. I asked him how he knew it was there.

He said he had done the other puzzle for a bit and noticed it. I asked him how long ago. Christmas, he says. It was February at the time.

The kid was maybe five. Might be more memory than intelligence, but that was crazy to see.

Such a great kid, in somewhat dire circumstance. I hope he's gotten all the opportunities he deserved.

I work with 18 to 24-month-olds, and we have an 18-month-old who can have

literal conversations. Perfect sentence structures, perfect verb conjunction, perfect pronunciation,

even L&R. Knows all the alphabets, numbers, colors, shapes, by sight. Some of the others know

some of those things, but I've never seen a baby this advanced.

I sometimes forget she's only one year old because she seems more like three and a half, just tiny

like a one year old. Her dad brought her back from a well baby checkup telling us that the doctor

asked, does she say any words yet? And we all lulled because she has full conversations.

We had a four-year-old in preschool. He was sitting under the table writing down numbers for a long

time. He had no time to talk to us. When he came out and we looked at what he'd been doing,

he said he wrote down all the multiplications. It turns out his brother in fifth grade was learning the multiplication

table and this little brother really wanted to do the same, but didn't have a multiplication

table. He counted on his fingers to add each column and got the table right. A few days later,

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