This document discusses gifted students and gifted education. It defines gifted individuals as those who demonstrate outstanding aptitude or competence in one or more domains such as mathematics, music, or sports. The document also discusses North Carolina's laws around gifted education, including that gifted students should be challenged to achieve high levels and require differentiated instruction beyond the regular program. It provides statistics on the number of identified gifted students in North Carolina and state funding levels. The rest of the document offers tips for teaching gifted students, such as not asking them to do what they already know how to do, providing challenging curriculum, and pacing instruction to individual student needs.