ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the ways that gifted learners think. It extends statements of what these students do intellectually, to explain how they think when facing intellectual challenges. The Money Managers project is written for a small group within a heterogeneously grouped class. Traditionally gifted students have been defined as intellectually advanced. Precociousness may extend beyond a particular content area; it may evidence itself as general intellectual prowess. All students need programs in which they can achieve their potential—even very bright children. Memory, perhaps more than any other aspect of intelligence, significantly characterizes a person's cognitive abilities. Gifted learners also are hypersensitive to information at an early age. For gifted learners, the important memory issue extends beyond how much information they can hold in working memory and how long they can maintain it.
