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I've no clue what you are talking about. It is perfectly OK to say mathematically gifted student

From the new Mathematics Framework for California Public Schools:

> All students deserve powerful mathematics; we reject ideas of natural gifts and talents... The push to calculus in grade twelve is itself misguided... An important goal of this framework is to replace ideas of innate mathematics 'talent' and 'giftedness' with the recognition that every student is on a growth pathway... There is no cutoff determining when one child is 'gifted' and another is not.

I thought they pulled back the "reject ideas of natural gifts and talents" in the most recent draft, after massive public outrage?

As someone who has friends in education PhD programs this is not an ironic statement these are true beliefs held by the institutions that train our teachers today.

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